The crazy pressure and pace of last week has lightened to a
calm, relaxing drift. Spending the week in Georgia with my girlfriends, I’ve
been soaking in the gorgeous sun and seventy degree weather. Taking time to
slow down and step back from non-stop productivity has been a much needed
break. I cannot believe it’s only Monday night, and I can sit in quiet
contentment knowing how rested and invigorated I will feel when school rolls
around next Monday.
This week for the show, all I have to do is bind up the quilts,
pick the color of my business cards, and finalize my artist statement. The car
has been perfect for binding, chatting and stitching away, and I’ve become a
must faster binder over the past couple days. Each quilt feels like such an
accomplishment, and the show is becoming something real and tangible. My mom printed these lovely little labels for me to stitch onto the backs of my quilts this year. She accidentally printed thirty, so I have a lot of projects to start and finish before December, but luckily, with twelve under my belt, I'm a good way along, and the whole summer is spread ahead of me.
Needless to say, my FinishIt2014 list is going to be rapidly growing in the next couple weeks following my show, and my works-in-progress will be multiplying. Fortunately, I have such a wonderful support group for just such a condition over at Freshly Pieced with Work in Progress Wednesdays. How many more finished do you anticipate (or dream about) this year?
