Getting Through the Slump

Well, that last quilt turned out pretty good after all. But it's inevitable that there's usually a let-down after one of those adrenalin-push deadlines. A loss of single-minded purpose. A loss of focus that allows me to ignore all kinds of trivial humdrum things that now I don't want to do.

BUT, I had a plan for this! If you remember, I built extra design boards and had another quilt project lined up on the second set of boards to try to get me through one of these after-project slumps. Yesterday I took the background fabrics off, sewed them together, and now have them pinned to my main design boards.

I rolled up the last drawing which leaves the big table empty. Oh it feels nice to have a clean table!

Put the old drawing in the old drawing basket...

and got out the new drawing.

Now to start cutting up all the patriotic fabrics I've been collecting for this red, white and blue quilt. It's kind of like a big assembly line. Except that there's only one person at work on this assembly line. Me, and I work at a turtle's pace! Why does art take so long?

So I'm ready to start the next one. But maybe I'll take a little detour and do something small for a change too. Here's a CD I made for the museum with photos of from the exhibit (mostly what you've already seen in the photo gallery.) But the packaging looked slick, so I wanted to post a photo of it.