Resolutions
Dec. 2nd, 2021 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rebeccmeisterI can never seem to get the timing right on great gift ideas or on New Years' Resolutions.
So I have a Resolution right now, although it probably won't reach fruition until the new year, because reasons.
I am going to start doing ceramics again.
Somehow, in every spare second while working to grade student papers, all that my subconscious wants to do is think about all of the creative projects I'd like to be working on instead. I think it's that contrast between doing very abstract work but desiring more concrete outcomes in my life. Hence the ceramics resolution. There are actually about 5 different reasons for the ceramics resolution, though, which will start to become more clear as I get going with it.
One other project at the forefront of my mind right now is a cat bed test quilt piece that's going to get finished a little too late for its intended recipient. I'm going to finish it anyway. I'm glad I made it, because it made it very clear to me that there's no way I'm ever going to manage to hand-quilt an entire quilt. I haven't even managed to finish hand-quilting the test quilt! But I did finally get around to learning more about free-motion quilting, and ordered a new foot for my sewing machine, so I think I may have finally found a way to move forward with that project, at long last. The last time I seriously worked on the quilt was in Texas, which feels like forever ago.
I've done a great job over the years of acquiring tools and supplies for various hobbies/crafts, but by now I'm feeling the collective weight of everything I've acquired and the burden of too many unfinished objects. So now I want to figure out a strategy for finishing things or moving them along. One item at a time.
So I have a Resolution right now, although it probably won't reach fruition until the new year, because reasons.
I am going to start doing ceramics again.
Somehow, in every spare second while working to grade student papers, all that my subconscious wants to do is think about all of the creative projects I'd like to be working on instead. I think it's that contrast between doing very abstract work but desiring more concrete outcomes in my life. Hence the ceramics resolution. There are actually about 5 different reasons for the ceramics resolution, though, which will start to become more clear as I get going with it.
One other project at the forefront of my mind right now is a cat bed test quilt piece that's going to get finished a little too late for its intended recipient. I'm going to finish it anyway. I'm glad I made it, because it made it very clear to me that there's no way I'm ever going to manage to hand-quilt an entire quilt. I haven't even managed to finish hand-quilting the test quilt! But I did finally get around to learning more about free-motion quilting, and ordered a new foot for my sewing machine, so I think I may have finally found a way to move forward with that project, at long last. The last time I seriously worked on the quilt was in Texas, which feels like forever ago.
I've done a great job over the years of acquiring tools and supplies for various hobbies/crafts, but by now I'm feeling the collective weight of everything I've acquired and the burden of too many unfinished objects. So now I want to figure out a strategy for finishing things or moving them along. One item at a time.
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Date: 2021-12-03 02:24 am (UTC)That’s a hard one to handle. Some projects just need to be laid to rest, and the self forgiven for the thing that wasn’t, and probably never would be…