For a variety of reasons, I get stuck on a project. Right now I am stuck because the piece of fabric I bought for the border is too dark of a teal color. I could charge ahead and install that piece but it would ruin the flow of the piece, so I am waiting. The quilt is lying on my design "wall", aka the floor of my sewing room. I want to leave it out so that I don't forget to finish it and so that I am sure to buy the right color teal the next time.
While I sorted my fabric yesterday, I also put a few piles of fabric down, with the pattern on top for my next few projects. They are not stuck, they are just not started yet.
Truth be told, some of my works in progress are not really stuck, they are just stalled in that phase of production, and sometimes are too low in the pile to actually see them. When I sort my fabric I happen upon these little surprised, "Oh, I remember that project, I wonder if I have the pattern?, and I wonder if I know what I am doing next?, and I wonder if I really ever want to finish this one?"
I actually am being patient with myself in this stuckness. If I plunge ahead, I will put in the wrong piece and will be upset with myself. If I wait long enough the right piece will emerge from the universe.
For now, I walk into my sewing room and there are piles of projects laid out, and works in progress lying in the design "wall".
Oh the fun of being a textile artist, and of having the right space in which to have chaos that sometimes get converted into order.
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