Spontaneous New Project

 I was cleaning up some of my fabrics and came upon my collection of Asian fabrics that I have collected for years....and I mean  years.    One of my fabric shopping trips in Berkeley, CA., we visited a Japanese fabric shop and I purchased what was a fabric book of Japanese fabric samples.  Each page was a piece of cotton indigo blue/white fabric 18"long by 12"wide and probably near 100 pages marked with a Japanese marker in English and Japanese.  And over the years I have used a good amount of these pieces of fabric, storing those that I've never touched.

 At the same time I have been reading and looking at these fabrics thinking maybe I'd start a crazy quilt using Japanese fabrics...and then I remind myself that I really struggle cutting random sized pieces of fabric, placing them together and then embroidering their seams randomly over the fabrics.....and because the surface design on the fabric is so intense, all of that would be lost.  So I drew a 10" square and create my own design to cut/sew and using the color images in yardage that I found, developed these square with the idea of sewing them together into a nine patch or long eight patch (four on four). 

So I dove into the project and created each block one by one.   Now I need to sew the blocks together with the thought I'd then add smaller images randomly over the sew together surface and then in the border that is planned.  We will see what actually happens once I sew the blocks together.

 

And so here I go again with another project to add to the others I have going here and there and everywhere in my studio.  With the big question:  why do I continue to add new projects one after another?   It's not that I don't finish project, I do.  But my mind keeps telling me "you only have so much time left on this planet and you need to create as much work as you can between now and when the end happens to be"....it's like I can't get enough of everything...........and I really need to relax a bit.  Hard for me to do....even when I watch tv I am either reading while watching or knitting while watching or writing while watching.  Knowing that I'm doing this I am going to try to conscientiously try to RELAX!    I know it will be difficult and I'll fail from time to time, but I am going to give it a try.