I had resolved (as opposed to making a resolution) not to start any new projects until I cleared the boards of the old ones, beginning in January. It was my plan from late in the year when I realized what a mess I have.
I didn't get one of my Christmas projects finished. But it will be done before the end of t oday and I hope will be in the mail by Friday.
But something happened... I talked to my mom in Arizona on Christas. And I know she's quite elderly (82 in November) but something in her voice that day really caught me and I realized that she really can't travel up here anymore and that I probably won't get to Arizona this year and it hit me that I may not see my mom again. Understand, she's not an easy person. High maintenance doesn't even begin to start it. But she's still my mom. And I went downstairs and started looking around and found this amazingly tall stack of pink pieces of fabric I'd been stashing aside for three years thinking "I'll do something for Mom with this". So I got started that night on something "easy" for her. A straightforward traditional Tree of Life, big, in the middle with some easy pieced borders and.....oh my. Why do I ever think I can do something straightforward? It changed. I couldn't put half square triangles together to save me, so the quilt changed and as it changed it started talking and then it was really smattering in my ears and by midnight I had a start on something I'm really liking. But there is not a sign of pink anywhere on it and it's not what my Mom has been asking for (a lap quilt to cuddle with while watching television in the evenings). This is something that must be on a wall.
So, I have this crazy thing up on what passes for a design wall in my house, and I still had to do something for Mom, so I started in earnest with lots of pink on something out of Better Homes Patchwork Quilts magazine that said "confident beginner" and "scrappy" and I thought it would be simple. Grrrrrk. I have two blocks finished. 10 to go (big blocks -- 16 inches). And I will have to buy more pink fabric (can you believe that?) and probably some green. And now I have two new projects, neither finished, hanging onto the previously open spaces in my sewing area and preventing me from beginning my "clearing the boards" work.
And so I'm off and running. And so it goes. And yes, I will post pics of WIP if I can find the camera.
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