Sunday, April 10, 2016

I mentioned yesterday that I’ve had trouble settling on anything in my sewing room. After a clean-up yesterday I didn’t want to start the whole messy cycle again so I opted to cross stitch.

The piece I’m working on has been in-the-works for years. As I was preparing for the stash reduction sale I realized that I have more projects started, planned or desired than I’ll have time for in several lifetimes. Had I planned better 40 years ago I would have worked on one thing until it was done before moving on to the next.

Is it too late to start that? I don’t switch projects because I tire of them but more because I feel a pressure to get something done – most often it is pressure I put on myself. If I continued to cross stitch until this piece is finished I’d be so far behind on my quilt-along blocks I’d never catch up. My Guild challenges wouldn’t be done by their deadline; I’m still hoping some of them might be. There would be no new projects – no cards, no fun little gifts to make or ideas to check out.

As I mentioned to Stacia this afternoon I’m at that awkward stage – I know I’ll never finish or even get to many (most) of these projects but I’m not quite ready to let them go.