Procrastination and a Looming Deadline

It's Saturday morning and I have the day set aside for quilting. In 5 days, I will be heading to Idaho to finally meet my youngest grandson. Harper was a long wished for baby. Many prayers on behalf of his parents were answered when he was born 6 months ago. Many prayers of gratitude were offered since. But we just haven't been able to get out there to see him. 

I have been planning his quilt since we found out his mom was pregnant. I have been working on it since December but I just haven't gotten it done. Partly because all my weekends have been tied up. Partly because I have been soo busy at work. Partly because my Studio was a mess. But mostly it's due to procrastination. 

Why have I been procrastinating? The top has been ready for a couple of months. The back has been done for over a week. I cut the batting 3 days ago. Why isn't it on the long arm already. 

I haven't used my long arm since the last upgrade.  I kept reading about problems people were having since the last upgrade. That made me really nervous. I did find and print out the instructions for setting up a pantograph in the new system. So I am going to use those to get my pattern ready on my Quilting laptop before loading it onto the tablet.

I also hadn't found a Pantograph that I wanted to do. Since it's a Winnie the Pooh Quilt, I was looking for something with bees.  I did find a couple that would work but nothing that sparked for me. I kept looking despite having ones that would work.  I did some google searches for digital quilting patterns and found the perfect E2E on Wildflower Quilting. What a great site with lots of cute patterns. And for those of you who are Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, They has temple stitching patterns (also other church motifs).  Any way I found the perfect E2E for this quilt.  It's simply called Honey e2e. 

 Now it's time to screw up my courage and get this quilt on the machine.  I am so looking forward to finishing and taking it to my precious little grandson.

What is keeping you from finishing a project?