I just finished - amazingly - rootling through my entire stash! Isn't it just shocking what a person can accomplish in ten and fifteen minute increments over a couple months time? (admittedly a small stash, but still!) In the process, I also found all my WIPS and PIGS. But instead of overwhelming or discouraging me, I now have more hope than ever that they can indeed be finished. Winston Churchill was right. Never give up. Never give up. Never. Never. Never.
Karen, Queen of Squishies
Karen, you are amazing and an inspiration for us all. Keep plugging away.... I also know how soothing it is to fondle your fabrics and WPIs, too- great therapy! Bless you.
Leslie
Good for you, Karen! :D
Karen's thoughts raise a question. When is it a 'never give up' occasion and when is it time to toss? We deep south cooks begin lots of dishes with 'first you make a roux'. To make a roux, you must stir flour and oil or simply dry flour in a well-seasoned iron skillet until it is a deeper color than peanut butter. There's a split second between just wonderful and burned. Once the flour is burned, nothing in this world is going to make it better. It is time to toss and begin again. Sometimes you know pretty soon that a quilt is just not going to work; sometimes you have to let it sit for years or decades before you are sure. There's a UFO here that is like the burned roux. The choices I made are never going to be right. That UFO reminds me of the last piece of counted cross-stitch I did. It says, "Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig." Polly
When you know it, you know it. Time to move on, and no guilt. Throw it out, or give it away.
Karen, Queen of Squishies
Knew you could knew you could knew you could could could would would would did did diddidididididididdddddddddddddd YAY!!!
Remember that 10 min quilt I did when I 'couldn't' do much? Yuppers, it'll be back on the website whenever.Website is NOT a priority at this point in time....finishing the house/trim/outside painting/yard/fence is.
Butterfly ((yes, I'm NOT overdoing and am taking frequent breaks===keeping an eye on DH so HE does the same))
Polly! I have that sign on the wall in my kitchen LOL ......or as my Gram'pa used to say......"You keep banging your head against that brick wall and all you'll have is a bloody head."
I'm pretty much a cut your losses and move on and don't look back, kind of person. When I see requests for pictures of the worst thing you have ever quilted/sewn/made I sort of think........why would I have taken a picture of THAT?......or kept any other reminder of a total disaster I may have created to live on in perpetuity. Polly's post made me laugh. I had my friend's dear Looz-anna granny teach me to make gumbo years ago.....I went through 3 batches of roux before I got her hug of approval and went to step two. I can still hear the softly drawled......"Thazz no roux baby doll, thazz gawbarge, pichit owwwwwt." These are words to live by and repeat often.
I found an old cookbook at a garage sale and it was loaded with clipped recipes. I also will make note that the cookbook was Julia Child's "The Art of French Cooking". The reason I bought it was that what was left of the whole bottom right corner of the book was charred away and blackened from fire...*snort, guffaw*...FLAMBÉ!......some irony is just priceless, I paid the full 25 cent marked price and have kept it in a book stand on my counter for years. Now, back to the recipe clippings......in the margins were written, 'Floyd's favorite', 'Millie liked this', 'Daddy's birthday, big hit', 'this is good but needs more salt', etc. Those were notations explaining why the clipping was kept, the ones I didn't understand her saving were......'just awful, 'horrible', 'Christmas dinner disaster', 'stray dog wouldn't eat it' (my personal favorite), 'made Daddy sick'. Why did this lady save all those disastrous recipes? Would this be for the same reason the no redemption PIGS and WIPs are saved for years?
I have become the master of assessing a rapidly rolling down hill to Hell project and saying, "thazz gawbarge, pichit owwwwwwt". Of course this particular mind set and course of action could also possibly be why I haven't remarried in about 40 years despite the offers.
Val
LMAO!
I totally agree, at least in theory. I've got a couple of UFOs that need to be tossed, they are in the box labeled, "If you haven't finished this by
2008, throw it out!" I like to give them a year or two to see if they (or I) mature.Hey, Butterfly, glad to hear that you and your DH are doing so well. Yes, it's great to do some chores in small increments. When I get done, I think, "Hey, that was nothing!" and forget that it took a whole month of 15 minutes a day to get that closet really cleaned and tidy.................
Thank you. I'm up to 20 min now and STAYING THERE. Have discovered this is my 'best' and then anything after I pay for it later. Not worth it and not worth having the 'do-over' cause I didn't stop. At least now I don't have to have a timer set :) (Remember when I did that? I sure do and 'spect I'll have to once I get by the SM again) I do have to wear the hand braces by afternoon but it 'prevents' more than anything. I sure hope and pray it STAYS that way.
I sure missed B'splat at first but this has been SO WORTH IT that we all are glad now that we did move. It did help when we got that call asking, " Do you MISS the Tulle Fog?" Nope, not at all:) Put things into perspective and now that the roses are ablooming
Butterfly (I know just wait until July and August : )
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