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I’ve decided to move this here quilting blog.  You can now find me at Goddess in Progress… Quilts!

If you are subscribed in a Feed Reader, it should update automatically. If not, please let me know.  I will soon set it up that this URL will forward directly to the new site, as well.  Please update your links if you get a chance.

So, why the change?  For one, I think the initial choice of name (and URL) for this blog was totally short-sighted.  I thought I was going to get all into making doll quilts, and that was simply not the case.  So the name really made no sense at all.

In addition, Goddess in Progress is my long-time primary blog, where I’ve been writing for four years.  It has become something of an identity/brand/online-persona, and I didn’t like having my quilting blog so completely disconnected from it.  I like having the separate blog, because the topics (and readers) do not have major overlap.  But I wanted to merge the two to some degree.

Also, when I leave comments on your Blogger sites and it lists me as “Goddess in Progress,” I didn’t want you to be too confused.

Anyways, go find me over there!  And be kind, the design is very much in flux….

I haven’t sat down at my sewing machine in four weeks. Nearly a month.

To be fair, I was out of town for three of the past four weeks.  A little over two weeks doing the insane family-visit thing in the Midwest.  Home for four days, away for four more in New York for BlogHer (which was a blast).

But now that I’m back, I can’t quite seem to find my sewing mojo.  It’s not that I’ve lost interest in quilts. There are still more in my head than I may ever be able to make.  But maybe that’s part of the problem. I see my literal and virtual to-do lists, I look at my drawers of stash fabric and bins of scraps, and I feel overwhelmed.

In addition, I’m going through some absolutely bone-crushing exhaustion.  Some of it is residual tiredness from travel.  Plus the chaos of re-entry into my life, where I feel out of practice with the day-to-day requirements of activities with the kids and all of the miscellaneous things you need to do to keep the house running (laundry? ack!).  Add to that the old “dog days” of summer… while we blessedly just had central air conditioning installed, and I absolutely adore it and can’t believe it took us so long to do, I still think the heat takes its toll on me.

At any rate, I’ll certainly keep you posted when I find my sewing mojo again. If you’ve seen it, please send it back home where it belongs.

Anyone else dragging as summer starts to wind down?