I have been rather depressed. It's been a rather difficult month. I am finding excuses for not doing things I need to do. Part of this, I am sure, is do to the fact that Kim is gone so much. I find I tend to work longer hours when Kim is out of town. Kim is struggling with work and has been rather depressed as well. Which since we tend to be very emotionally connected, that tends to bring me down even further. As a result, I have been very lax in meeting my creative needs. I tend to come home and bury myself in my room.
This month I have tried to break that cycle. As a family, we have put up green beans, pickles, and apples. We certainly have built up our larder for the winter. Our fruit trees are producing and we are enjoying the literal fruits of our labors. Plus we have taken to going to Long Farms and picking produce to put up. So while I am tired, I am also fairly content with some progress.
I also decided to do something about my lack of creative progress. So I grabbed the scrap bin and started cutting it into 5 inch squares and 2-1/2 inch squares. While doing this I got to thinking about how many 5 inch squares I have. I really don't need more 5 inch squares. I have cut enough print fabrics for the lattice quilt. So I decided to find another scrap quilt pattern to do. I remembered a quilt pattern I have called Twizzle that I wanted to make. When I looked up the pattern, I realized that it was made from Jolly Bars. Jolly Bars are 5 inch by 10 inch rectangles. Not really scrap size. I flipped to the next pattern and that was a paper pieced double wedding ring. It's definitely a quilt I want to do. So I started cutting my print scraps into the size needed for it.
After cutting scraps for a bit, I decided it was time to pull out the quilt journal. I hadn't made an entry since the end of March. Obviously, I haven't made any entries since I haven't accomplished anything. I had kept writing the same thing down every week. So I just stopped. Today, I decided to regroup. In fact, today's entry is titled Regrouping. I expect it will be the entries for a few days. I focused on some realities that I have to face today. I think I may start making daily plans and stop trying to plan out the week. I am toying with the idea of taking the journal with me to work. If I make my daily plan at work I might work harder at coming home.
Tomorrow, I think I may have to set some priorities. It is easy to just distract myself with cutting up scraps but I can't just keep making flimsies and letting them pile up.
What do you get back on track?
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