between posts. I am a bit embarrassed but either I forget or I feel that I have little to share. No one wants to hear whining or complaining, so I stay quiet. And then I have been exploring other blogging options. Enough blah blah.
I have pretty much completed the quilting on a large piece I am calling Rootedness. Sorry that I don't have a photo to show yet. I learned a lot working on this piece. It is roughly 58" high x 38" wide and called for lots of dense quilting to portray what I want to express.
At first, I believed I had to have all the plans worked out for all the parts of it. Ha! All that thinking did was keep me from doing anything. Finally, after who knows how long, I just started with one section that I knew what I wanted to do and did it. Every time I fell into worrying about how I was going to do IT ALL, I held up my imaginary STOP sign and focused on just one area and stitched. Of course, each next section got solved before its time as I worked on some other part. Of course, morning pages helped a lot. So, this piece taught me to stay present AGAIN.
I have it hanging on the design wall and plan to work on something else today. Tomorrow I will show it to some friends for some feedback. Part of me feels it still needs something, but I have no idea what. I'll try to get a photo here soon and keep you posted. For now, it and I need some space.
thanks for listening. Karen
