Brain Fog

Do you ever have days when the creative juices are just not in synch with the real world?  I've had a week of those days!

When the final solution for the Old Town Mystery was released last Friday, I matched up pieces for several blocks and managed to get one block finished.  

On Saturday I made a bunch of small units and added three more blocks to the wall.  Sunday I cobbled together a fifth block, all the while looking at the design wall, trying to come up with an alternate plan for the sashing that does not require the tiny flying geese.  

While I like the secondary pattern Bonnie's sashing makes, I'm not enough in love with my blocks to make the effort to make the tiny geese.  I came up with an interesting option but it would require some un-sewing of my finished blocks.  I looked and thought, and thought and looked.

When the creative ju-ju didn't kick in, I finally decided that a clear work table might help.  Which only led to remorse over unfinished projects and plans for new projects with the bits of detritus that I took off the table.  

On Monday I went to the computer and made a spreadsheet to track my progress on 30+ UFOs.  I predict some of them will become placemats or potholders.  One of the piles on my table included cutoffs from several strip sets that I think were made for borders on a quilt many years back.  So I cut them to 6.5" squares which I assembled into a little 24" square.

With schools closed on Tuesday due to threatening weather, there was no Devo and Sew.  So I pretended I was sewing with the group and managed to add borders to a little baby quilt and made the binding. 

Then I decided to tackle a One Block Wonder that I cut and apparently planned several years ago.  After several attempts to get a couple of rows together, I gave up in frustration.  It really needs to go back up on the wall for me to understand what I was intending.

I muddled through Thursday, trying to make a plan, trying to clear off my table, thinking of what I could do with this or that.  The big bin of Asian fabrics was still under the table along with the little box of 2.5" squares.  Hmm.  I started making 4-patches with no plan in mind.  Check back tomorrow to see what I came up with.  Hopefully it will be a whole top by the end of the day and then I can send that bin back to the basement!

BTW, I managed to change a setting in my new phone which allows the computer to recognize the source of my photos.  Don't ask me how I did it!