Making Time

i loved the idea of simple sparrow’s “use what you have” month for april. great crafting blog meme!

however, in my case i didn’t “have” everything i needed in order to use what i have. i mean, i had to go buy more stuffing to fill stuffies… ok, i understand the idea that i should be ripping up rags or something… but i don’t even have that. when i arrived i didn’t have much is a stash or materials to play with. but i’m building one.

instead, i’m making May my “finish what i started month”. sometime in january, i told my boyfriend not to let me start one before i finished the other. this put him in an awkward position, because nothing was going to stop me from starting about 50, and leaving some poor biddies unjointed, unclothed, unstuffed.

mostly what stops me from finishing is a bloated ideal of perfection. when, halfway through, something is looking wrong and it’s not possible to undo it, i take a break, a two steps forward one step back kind of movement.

it would be one thing to simply document all the projects i haven’t finished. first of all, my little workspace is in serious need of organizing. this is what it looked like in March.  some of these projects are completed! the purple fabric is now bedroom curtains. the plants are potted. that’s good!
but there is a bunch more fabric now, from my first swaps. i’ve just washed it yesterday, and before i dig into it, i really should finish up some other things.

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