As you know, I've been struggling mentally over the last few months.  It's amazing how much a little anxiety and lack of sleep will upend your life.  If anything, I have a new appreciation for people who suffer from them chronically.  Luckily with each passing week, I'm feeling better.  That said, I promised my critique partner, Barbara that I would get back into the studio and ya know actually get something done.  Soooooo I pulled out the easiest WIP I had to finish.  My sister told me to start with baby steps and since she's a marathon runner (completing not one but two Ironmans) I thought I would take her advice.  

You can see this exercise here.  Yes, it's been sitting nearly done on the side of my design wall for 10 months.10 MONTHS!!  I decided that I would use black as the background.  What I haven't exactly decided is am I going to sew the pieced columns all together?  Or am I going to put in black spacer columns between the pieced columns??   Also, if I do put the spacer columns in are they going to be fat and chunky OR thin and sleek.  Decisions, Decisions.  I don't know why but in the frame of mind I've been in the last year, decisions can be debilitating.  I really think I need to adopt a "What the Hell" attitude, put on my big girl panties, and just do it.  

So tonight I pulled it all out, started stabilizing the columns, and squaring them up.  I made a list of the decisions I needed to make.  Plus, I gave myself a deadline.  By the end of Sunday night, this piece will be ready to be machine quilted.  

I know lately, this blog has seemed like a bunch of start-and-stop projects, but I promised myself when I started chronicling my creative journey that I would do it truthfully.  I will not hop the bandwagon of people who only put the best version of their life online.  This is where I am at right now. 

 And that's okay. ...

Enough confessing...

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