too much?

I’ve read a couple of blogs this week talking about having too much inspiration and too many ideas and too little time.  Funny, I have this problem most of the time.  In fact I work better when I have at least 3 projects going.  I went to my Mom’s this weekend with two quilt projects and came home with four.  This this week I’ve come up with at least three smaller projects in the works.  The great thing about stocking up on projects is that I can pick up whatever I’m in the mood to work on.  Usually they are all in different stages so that works out well.  The bad thing is that sometimes like now…they all end up in the same stage and then I get bogged down on which to work on.  Here’s my list.

1. The Play Mat. Progress slowed down lately, I was stuck on the fifth panel.  I worked on it Wednesday and I think I’ve gotten past my stuck part.  I’m mostly done with the fifth panel and have a bunch of mountains made for the final sixth panel.  I’m currently debating on a border, if it should be a road or just navy.  I think navy would look sharp but I’d have to go buy some.  The back will be a solid green cotton.  I need to finish up the piecing and sew the panels together.  Add the border, baste, quilt, and finish.
2. Bargello.  I have the fabric for the border but I want to add my extra strips to the bargello before I put on the border.  I need to finish sewing strips, add the border, quilt, and finish.
3. Random Block quilt. This is a project Mom and I started a year ago.  I was just learning to sew.  We had the same fabrics and made blocks 10 inches square of whatever design we wanted.  I used this to learn how to do different techniques.  We finished the blocks and then we both got busy.  I took the project home with me to finish.  A few blocks are a bit small so I need to fix those.  Then they need to be sewn together, basted, quilted, and finished.  I haven’t decided on a border or backing yet. 
4. Rocky and Bullwinkle.  Is going to be a simple patchwork quilt.  I have a pattern of the rectangles that I plan to use.  I haven’t started this at all.  I’m trying very hard not to.  I’d love to start cutting for something new but I need to get past the part I’m stuck on with the other three quilts.
5. I would really like to do a flying geese blanket for a friend using Liberty fabrics.  But this is so far in the future it really shouldn’t be on the list.  I couldn’t help but add it in though.

Smaller projects.
1. I want to make a small wall hanging for a friend.  I’ll just use scraps I have and I think I have a pattern picked out.  Just have to do.
2. I found this pattern for a small draw string bag.  I’d like to try it for my first try at a bag.  I have some fabrics in my stash that should be the right size.
3. And farther in the future when I’ve completed at least one bag, I’d like to combine sewing a bag with some crochet.  I have a visual in my head of what I’d do but I need to do some practicing to figure out if it’s realistic.

Yep I probably have too many ideas, too much inspiration.  My mantra right now is to finish something…and that something has to be one of the first three things on my list.  =) 

must finish something, must finish something, must get past quilting stage, must finish something. 
R is headbutting the computer now.  I guess he must want to play.  Off we go to find an adventure in the back yard.

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