I've been reading lots of other blogs.What are your favorites? The quilting-themed ones I check daily are Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville and Cathy's saneandcrazy.blogspot.com. Cathy is a prolific scrap quilter, and I have been having fun suggesting quirky names for her quilts. There are many other blogs I enjoy checking periodically, although they tend to inspire me to pursue 'squirrel' projects instead of finishing the ones I already have in progress.
So why am I feeling the doldrums? My favorite part of quilting is piecing. But right now I have a tall stack of quilt tops to be quilted, and I am in the midst of quilting two rainbow quilts sewn in 2019. These require 11 thread changes because of all the colors. Ok, playing with all those colors is kind of fun. And I have some skill in ditch-stitching and several FMQ flourishes. Then I see all my imperfections - a few tucks on the back side, a bobble in my curves or straight lines, and my rudimentary stitching motifs. Ugh!
Do you feel frustrated, too, when comparing your quilts to at all those beautiful quilts online and featured in quilt shows? Do you describe your quilts as "folksy"? Maybe we need to change that attitude and feel happy when we finish a quilt all by ourselves - that we selected the colors, prints, altered the design to our style and did all the work to make a lovely quilt and those 'imperfections' are what makes it unique.
[Deep breath] Onward and upward! Here are my quilting goals for 4th quarter:
1. Finish the three 2019 block-of-the-month quilts (don't let them become UFOs!!!).
2. Quilt and bind Arcadian Chain.
3. Pick one of three other finished tops and quilt it.
4. Feed my piecing muse by making a simple baby quilt - and finish it by yearend. (Update: Blocks are cut and ready for assembly.)
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