It is still January and I have high hopes for 2009. I will eliminate clutter in my home, live a simpler life, lose ten pounds, and finish all those UFO's. I can do that. Well, I can try.
This little quilt, started more than twelve years ago, recently resurfaced. I have it on my cutting table now and I am not allowing myself to put it away again unfinished. If I want to use the cutting table I must finish this quilt first.
I was on a roll when I started it. I got all the pieces cut - each piece from a different fabric. I sewed it together - please notice all those set in seams. I even got the seam allowances to twirl where the six points come together. They lay nice and flat. I basted it together and decided on a design to hand quilt. The quilting lines were going to be the topographic contour lines of our property. That, my friends, is where the progress stopped. I put it away until I could scale a map of the property to the size of the quilt and mark it. And there it stayed.Every so often I pulled the quilt out, and then remembered - The Contour Lines.I found it again a couple of days ago, looked at how small the pieces are, and decided that I really didn't want to hand quilt over all those seams. D came in and quickly came up with a quilting plan. He also chose some thread and left the spool sitting on the quilt. I am going with his design.Keep it simple. Finish it. Try not to be fussy about it.Also, as part of my goal for refocusing in 2009 I have started a year long photo project.I am taking a photo a day that will be a documentation of the year. I am trying to focus on activities or simple things that are meaningful to me. It helps me to think about what is important in my life, to capture the small everyday things that may be easily forgotten. You can see the year so far here.
