There are days when I feel like I can’t come up with a single good idea, but I find ways to get inspired – I have to get past my fear of failure! I go to a costume house and start touching the fabrics, the feathers, the beads. Sometimes, none of it makes any sense to me. TV pace is just so fast, I just keep moving through it and then all of a sudden it’s done, and I say “Wait. We did that?”
Lou Eyrich – American costume designer in Hollywood. This quote is from a Q&A with The Costume Designer, the official magazine of the Costume Designers Guild, Local 892.
Ms. Eyrich is known for her costumes in television. She’s worked on American Horror Story, Glee, and Asylum.
I admire Eyrich’s ability to keep the creativity going under such time constraints and pressure. What do you do when you need inspiration?
Long walks work for me when I hit a writing block. If I want to start a sewing project, I often begin with fabric. I find a fabric that I like and look for the silhouette that best suits the fabric (and me of course).
For longer term general inspiration – museums, books, old movies, travel!
OverDressed for Life 
I would do that but they won’t let me start touching fabrics or anything!!