{"id":22080,"date":"2014-02-19T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=22080"},"modified":"2016-11-29T17:35:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T00:35:33","slug":"workroom-chaos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/workroom-chaos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Workroom Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I was feeling very “light and fluffy” in terms of projects finished and the mental space to start considering the possibilities of new projects. I had finished a number of smaller projects, had really made some good progress (reached a tipping point) on my UFO list, and felt like the world of quiltmaking was at my feet. I was just waiting for the inspiration for my next project.<\/p>\n

How the mighty have fallen. Of course, there are never NO projects on my design wall and the ones in the hopper came to the fore.<\/p>\n

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Small Design Wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Chaos reigned my workroom this past weekend. I felt king of overwhelmed by all the projects that were going on.<\/p>\n

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Large Design Wall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally I had to face reality that this chaos was what I was dealing with and it wasn’t working for me. I had to deal with it because I realized I was wasting precious sewing time.<\/p>\n

The visual intensity of all of these projects plus the mess of my workroom was creating chaos in my mind. I couldn’t seem to focus, which is why, I think, I whipped up three cat beds<\/a>. It got me sewing and gave me something to focus on so I could figure out a solution to my problem.<\/p>\n

As I sewed, I realized that I needed to put away the donation blocks. I am not done working on them, but they didn’t need to be on the design wall.<\/p>\n

I also let Scrapitude take over one of my design walls. There is a lot going on in that quilt and the sooner it is done, the better for the relief of the visual chaos. I wasn’t able to get the whole top put together, but I made good progress.<\/p>\n

I also decided that I didn’t need all of the Disappearing Pinwheel\u00a0 blocks on the wall while I was working on them. I am also using those as, mostly, leaders and enders as I sew Scrapitude together.<\/p>\n

I started to use the extra Russian Rubix pieces as leaders and enders to get some of the octogons off the design wall.<\/p>\n

I haven’t done anything about cleaning my workroom except making that one cat bed out of my own fabric. I figure that getting one piece of fabric out of the place is a start. Not a great start, but a start.<\/p>\n

Onward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago I was feeling very “light and fluffy” in terms of projects finished and the mental space to start considering the possibilities of new projects. I had finished a number of smaller projects, had really made some good progress (reached a tipping point) on my UFO list, and felt like the world … Continue reading “Workroom Chaos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[381],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-22080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-381","tag-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}