The weight of all the stuff heaped on (1) my sewing desk, (2) the ironing board, and (3) my desk desk have conspired to keep me from creating. Too many different projects in too many different stages competing for attention, and thus I work on none of them!
So I've decided I'm going to clear out one project a day, one way or another.
Friday I finished sewing the four pillowcases that go with the Legend of Zelda quilt top for Squiddle, and hung them on a hanger in the closet next to that quilt top. (I am certainly not going to be getting up to any quilting until I can at least see the surface of the quilting desk.)
Yesterday I finished cutting the last fifteen sets of four white muslin side triangles for a red/turquoise stars quilt. So that is all kitted up, the ziploc bag sealed, waiting for the next sewing day. If nothing else, the Gig Harbor Quilt Guild will be doing an all-day sewing day next month!
Today I am working at cutting the last sixteen blocks for a very scrappy Double Four-Patch quilt. The only constant for that one is the chain, which is unbleached muslin. Two blocks down, fourteen to go as of this writing! Then that ziploc gets sealed and set aside like the stars, waiting its turn for a sewing binge.
Other things heaped on just the sewing table: blocks, possible sashing, and fabric for alternate blocks for a patriotic quilt; I won the star blocks at a block exchange many years ago at the Orange County Quilt Guild. (I ran the exchange, so I never put my name in, but one month I was out and someone else ran it for me, so they did put my name in, and I won.) Let's see, what else. A Christmas tree skirt. Two bags of scraps to be cut up into strips and squares. Piles of strips and squares from that cutting up process. Some old dinosaur fabric that might become a quilt back for Jazzy. That, I can actually probably return to my totes for now. The box with the completed blocks and some pieces for last year's Treadle On Block of the Month. And a couple miscellaneous pieces of fabric that, like the dinosaurs, can probably get put back into stash for now.
Then there's the stuff heaped on the ironing board and my desk. We'll get into those another day, because if I list those out too, I'll get depressed! For now, I go back to cutting blocks and getting my one task a day done.
