Friday, October 29, 2021

I had a hard time getting down to business this morning. While chatting with Stacia and Deloise about our upcoming sewing-together session we decided that Deloise would teach us her technique for paperless paper-piecing. I tried it a long time ago without much success but maybe I just didn’t have the right teacher. I watched a video on it and then found a dahlia quilt tutorial and watched four lessons of that. There were things I should have moved on to but I was distracted by putting in an amazon order.

By this time I knew I should be moving on to something productive but I didn’t have much desire for any of the things I had sitting around that needed to be worked on. As I was setting up my sewing machine after yesterday’s session I decided I should try to sort out the pieces I had for my 16-patches for the Guild mystery. I didn’t do any sewing but they are all clipped together in sets and, once I get to them, they should go quite quickly.

I still wasn’t feeling very ambitious and thought I could blame Stacia and her “work on one project at a time” syndrome. All I could think about was that Hallowe’en stitch along. It didn’t help that my order of floss arrived in the mail to further imprint cross stitching on my brain.

But I sucked it up and I have finished another project for the 12-Days packages. I’m glad I stuck with it because now I can cross stitch guilt-free!