Saturday, July 12, 2014

What to work on when you don't want to work on anything

As mentioned in my previous post, life has been chaotic.  There have been some times that I find myself craving the type of self-care that quilting gives me, but feeling completely overwhelmed in my sewing room.  First of all, there is all sorts of home dec project material laying around waiting for me to pick up again, so going into my sewing room feels like an obligation and not a getaway.  Secondly, even if I manage to ignore it and set it all aside, I just have TOO MANY PROJECTS in various stages of completion and I become absolutely flummoxed as to which one to pick up and work on.  And if I begin something new?  I remember again how much I have in progress when I decide I'm done for a while and want to put it away and have all sorts of project boxes already stuffed full.

It's not relaxing, which is what sewing should be.

Finally I decided to bite the bullet and just do "maintenance" work.  Namely, I decided to trim all the bonus HST units I've set aside from various projects.  Actually, not ALL of them, since there are a lot, but all the ones paired with a white rather than black or another color.  This is what was left after about 650 HSTs:

Now they're all nicely pressed and trimmed and ready for use in a project.  I'm thinking a baskets quilt much like this block from 101 Patchwork Patterns:
A number of these in a variety of colors, set on point like this pattern from Quiltmaker, is what I have in mind.

But first to finish other projects ... assuming I have enough time before another move to do so.