Already behind

January 17, 2010 in Piecing, Quilting | 2 comments

How is it that I already feel “behind” for the year and it’s not even the end of January?

It feels like I’m really struggling to find time for sewing right now.  As it is, my time is limited to when my kids are asleep, which basically means from about 1-3pm and after 8pm.  Trouble is, I need to do other things during that time, too.  Exercise, laundry, dinner prep… blah blah blah.  Plus, we took a last-minute trip to Florida to visit my husband’s ailing grandmother, so that threw me off, as well.

It could also be the fact that one of my closest friends and my younger brother are due to become first-time parents any second now, and I did not get a start on either quilt before the holidays.  Progress is being made, though.  My friend has the slightly earlier due date, so I worked on hers first.  It’s now just waiting for binding (which has been ordered) and the arrival of one awesome little girl (so I can put her name on the label, of course!).

Baby quilt in progress

My nephew-to-be is due February 6, and I finally got all of the fabric cut last night.  Now to assemble the blocks and get it all together. It’s a bit of organized chaos that I’m hoping will come together well.

Fabric cut for nephew's quilt

In the meantime, I signed up for the eighth go-around of the Doll Quilt Swap on Flickr.  I arguably should have said no, but it’s just entirely too much fun to miss out on.  My partner for this round has a rather different style than I do, so I’m trying to come up with an idea that she’ll like, but that I’ll also like making and be proud of.  We’ll see…

When it comes right down to it, I feel like I have more ideas and things I want to make than I really have time to do.  Not a terrible problem to have, as it sure beats plodding through something you don’t feel inspired to do.  It’s just that it gives me that slightly panicked feeling all the time, because it never seems like enough time.  Ah well.

So, how is your new year shaping up?  Feeling fresh and renewed, or already dragging?

  1. Adrienne’s avatar

    Adrienne on January 17, 2010 at 7:26 pm

    I feel behind already as well, but nothing I am working on has a definite deadline. I have only completed one of my four January swap blocks. I also signed up for DQS8 and I have no idea what I want to do. I have 3 quilts sitting and waiting for me to hand stitch the binding down. I also have 3 quilts waiting to be quilted, another one that just needs border and backing and for some reason I decided to start three ABC quilts last week despite having collected fabric for 4 years and having no deadline. LOL

  2. Becca’s avatar

    Becca on January 17, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Behind! It makes me so depressed to see all these fun pretty ideas out there and know that I won’t have time to do them all.

    I too am confined to only working on quilting during sleep times of toddlers. But there are other things like work – I committed to do a 45 minute lecture eeek, so I really should be working on that. Then there’s the blogging right? And the tired.

    Feeling frantic and unorganized isn’t good for me. :)

    I’ll have to jump on the next swap… that will be just what I need. A little fun!
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