After some breakfast today, I returned to the work room to see if I could finish putting up pieces for the current work-in-progress. And good news Gentle Reader – I did!
There was an interesting article in the NYTimes today by Adam Grant titled “Why I Taught Myself to Procrastinate” which says
It turned out that procrastination encouraged divergent thinking.
This is pretty typical in my process for quilting. After the initial flurry of ideas and planning, the process of sticking pieces of fabric near each other on my design wall happens in fits and starts. Each is followed by a period where I sit and look at it. Sometimes I do other things in the room and am just with the stuff on the wall.
Eventually it all gets there, and then there’s another pause of some length. I used to blame this on how committing sewing stuff together is. You don’t want, or at least I don’t want to sew together a lot of pieces together and then change your mind. Un-sewing is not for me. I’d rather feel like I’ve made any changes that I want before starting to take it down to get ready for sewing.
So that’s where I am. I finished sticking on all the pieces. Next I’ll put the extra pieces out of harm’s way but not too far away. Sometimes a piece needs to be replaced for various reasons. Then I’ll take down all the pieces a column at a time into stacks and then… let the sewing begin.
