Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Motivation

I'm lacking in motivation. I think because the only real time I get to myself is nap time. Once both girls are quiet and resting it leaves me with a small window of time which I 'have' to use for crafting else I go a little crazy with a feeling of not having achieved anything for myself. I'm beginning to resent that pressure to sit down and be creative at that very moment - sometimes I'm just not in the mood and sometimes I'm just bit mentally exhausted from having battled with two gorgeous - but sometimes unreasonable - bunny's all morning and I just want an hour of mindless anything ... so I've be rebelling by filling nap times with other delightful activities such as laundry, cleaning, emptying and refilling the dishwasher ...

This is not a productive mindset ... I have projects I want to make/do/achieve falling out my ears.

But I have been doing some sewing. I've finished the top of my Valentine Quilt. I'm not convinced by the quilts size - so I sewed all the scrappy strips left over together in hopes to make a border for the quilt ... ... it all looked a little odd when I laid everything together so I made one of these long strips into this little baby mat/quilt (still to be quilted.) It has cute scrappy corners.
My other idea is to turn the Valentine Quilt into a picnic blanket by using some laminated cotton or a poly-laminate on the back ... I like this idea ... and I think it would be something we might use a lot.

Every evening I try and tackle a little bit of my paper pieced quilt. It is coming along - I don't want to paper piece the entire quilt - but use hand quilting to emboss unpatched areas of the quilt and maybe have scattered paper pieced blocks throughout the quilt top too ... ... I haven't quite decided on exactly how it is all going to come together ... but I have a vague vision at least ... somewhere over the top of that never ending laundry basket!!

I'm also making some more art smocks - birthday presents for little people. I beginning to like mixing up bright colors for these smocks - the color splashes seem adapt for little budding artists. I'm often much to shy with color - something I'm really trying to get better with.
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3 comments:

  1. ThimbleannaFebruary 29, 2012 at 9:20 AM

    Boy, it looks like you're packing a lot into those naptimes. I love that cute little baby quilt -- very clever!

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  2. hettyMarch 9, 2012 at 9:53 PM

    For not being very motivated and not having much time, you certainly got a lot done. I love the Valentine quilt. Very cute. Your hexies look fantastic.

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  3. dottycookieMarch 10, 2012 at 5:03 AM

    I used to have one embroidery project that I pulled out whenever they were asleep and sat in front of the TV and watched whatever rubbish was on. I do sympathise - there's so little quiet time available when your children are young (much as we adore them, they do take all our attention!) and it can be so frustrating to have spent half your time deciding what to do only to find them waking up just as you settle down to something. I am hugely impressed you have the both napping at the same time. I think I managed that about three times.

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