I've been in a creative slump for the last few weeks. I've spent many hours looking for inspiration (time wasting). I did finish sewing the blocks together for my Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt top. I can add it to the pile of tops waiting to be quilted.
After spending a few weeks struggling with the blocks for the Orca Bay quilt I'd started, I finally decided that it needed to be put away again. I've seen many photos of finished Orca Bays on Bonnie Hunter's Facebook feed. They look really fabulous but I found mine just wasn't going well. I was getting very frustrated and realised I wasn't enjoying the piecing at all. An eighth of an inch can seem huge when your triangles aren't matching up like they're supposed to. I eventually decided that if it was making me unhappy it just wasn't worth working on at the moment. It made me doubt my abilities and question why I was bothering to sew anything at all.
Once my anxiety took over I found it really hard to focus on any quilt related activity. I guess thats the down side of not belonging to a quilt group any more, I did enjoy the inspiration I got from stitching with friends.
I have decided to start a new quilt and this churn dash is my first trial block. I have a gorgeous quilt pinned on my pinterest board thats a churn dash in pinks/reds/oranges I love the colour combo so I'll see how it goes. I didn't want anything with too many triangles, I'm all triangled out at the moment!
The last couple of weeks we've had a few visits from these lovely ducks. I don't know how long ducks live but we've had a couple that have visited us over about the last ten years. Living next to the wetlands its not such a strange occurrence to have ducks around, they are lovely birds and they do enjoy a swim in the pool.
This was too funny, Ruby sat next to the pool for about 20 minutes absolutely fascinated with the ducks. I was sure I was going to have to fish her out at some stage, she did get a bit too close to the edge but the ducks weren't worried. We have been having some very extreme weather lately, terrible winds for days at a time, a day over 30 when its not summer yet and then this week it has been very wintery, cold and raining a lot. At least we haven't had the dreadful weather they've been having in N.S.W. It's hard to believe they've had such terrible bush fires this early in the season.
Hopefully next post I'll have some progress to share, progress on anything would be nice.
Happy Stitching,
Debra.
