Two days in...

After only two days of working to clear my Pile of Unfinished Projects, I am very pleased with how much I've completed. I started by finishing the things closest to being done, so this may be why so much was finished the first day. Yesterday I worked on small things (wall-hangings and table runners), and today I will do the same. I fully expect today's production to be much less, because there is more to do on the projects to finish them. And I'm saving all the large quilts for later. But it feels very good to get things done, and add to the pile of things to sell. (Maybe what I really need to work on is my tendency to pile stuff...hmmm...)

As I finish projects, and an empty spot appears in my project shelf, my mind is wandering to the new projects I will start when more 'old' things are finished. I would love these new projects to include fabric that I already have, but this may be a challenge. Who was the girl who bought all of these of bright kid fabrics and Japanese prints? I am not sure that same girl is still here...my "design aesthetic" (as they would say on Project Runway) must have changed. I spent a little time last night looking at quilting magazines and books that I've bought most recently, and trying to decide if what-I-have can become the new what-I-want-to-make. I may have to still think about this, as I finish the project pile...Of course, I don't seem to be willing to get rid of any of the brights and Japanese fabrics -- how could I part with them? I loved them at one time, and I still appreciate them. So, if I don't want to give them away, I have to use them...such a dilemma...Can I make something old look up-to-date and new?

Hopefully this dilemma will solve itself in my mind while I clean out and quilt up the 'old'. I read somewhere once that you'll find that when you're free of stuff, your true creativity comes out. (I just Googled it -- Tina Turner said this. Not exactly word-for-word, but close...)

Maybe it's not a dilemma, but a happy challenge...