Monday, February 8, 2021

I’m struggling (just a little) to get off my regular schedule and into non-schedule where I finish a project before moving on to something else.

Today, when I was trying to finish a small project, I wanted very badly to set it aside and do something else. I was using my quilting machine and trying to use my rulers. I know the rulers don’t work well with a lot of seams but I was using the ruler that was a straight-edge so I thought it might be possible. But it wasn’t and I had to rip it all out.

Then I noticed that my machine was skipping stitches. I thought I could live with the skips but when I started a second round of quilting and the measurements for lines weren’t working out well I ripped everything out again. I rethreaded the machine and that seemed to help with the problem.

When I quit for lunch I thought maybe I’d have better luck after a break. But that little voice in my head said right back to me, “It isn’t luck, it’s skill”. Regardless of whether or not it was luck or skill, I managed to get the quilting done.

The positive of this new non-schedule is that I quite enjoyed sitting in the sunshine this afternoon and stitching down the binding.

Now I’ll move on to prepping for tomorrow’s project. Stacia, Deloise and I will be working on a common project and I don’t even have my fabrics picked yet.