making time

I'm struggling (again) to make time to make things. In fact I wish I could actually make time, I might feel I'm getting stuff done.

I need to feel like I'm getting stuff done... I need to tick things off my neverending list rather than just adding more and more stuff to it.

oh dear.

I have spent the last 2 weeks stitching my green fields piece for my July exhibition. And then unpicking it... the size and placement of the stitches were wrong wrong wrong.

so I photocopied the felt pieces and glued them together and used this actual sized paper piece to draw my stitching ideas.

So far this has been a useful exercise, although I haven't actually stitched it yet, I'm now too busy phaffing about with colour!

I have decided to relax and enjoy the process of making these pieces. I had in my head that I needed to produce 2 a month to make 12 for July. Which, given my work rate, is quite unrealistic and I felt abit disheartened about it.

If I 'only' produce 3 or 4 pieces then so be it. I will present some of my design work and process too. I love to look at other peoples sketchbooks and try to follow their thought processes, so others may be interested in my phaffing.