The 4 quilts were finished on time. I was pleased to have the opportunity to photograph them - I like to work LARGE and it's rare for me to see my finished work spread out
After all the rush to finish I couldn't look at quilting for weeks. My lovely sister-in-law faithfully sent me our joint project ahead of schedule... and it waited over a month to even be layered and basted. Talk about "give away your contingency" because I couldn't face going back to that pressure. Funny how we set ourselves up to repeat problems time after time.
Now I've finally started it and it's going OK. It's going to be a very pretty, classic quilt and after the great unveiling I may even post a picture.
But some days I despair of finding my own vision and voice... there is always something conventional or at least pre-planned that I could work on and know how it was going to turn out. Once again setting myself up to repeat my earlier experience of not stretching out to the most original work I can do.
Repetition must be the theme for this month - because there are some really good repeats along with making the same old mistakes. I picked up my hand weights and blew off a year's dust. Who dusts anyway. Then I took off all but the smallest disc... and I've used them every weekday since. What an amazing difference it has made to the start of each work day - to force the bloodflow and count. I've even re-started making a simple list at work each day. Another amazing difference to what happens, a simple reminder of what my earlier, smarter self decided was the most worthwhile thing to do for the day. Like getting a time capsule from myself.
So I can learn, even if it is the same things over and over again. We are what we do - I was thinking of Aristotle "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." but look what I found http://www.wearewhatwedo.org/ Cute!
