Ramifications from Flight 93 visit…

I am still thinking about the Shanksville, PA visit. One of the thoughts running around my head since visiting the 9/11 memorial in Shanksville, is that I have a lot of unfinished projects. It’s beginning to bother me. When I first started making art quilts, I came from a very traditional quilting background. Make squares. Make them beautiful. Sew them together. Quilt through 3 layers, voilá, you have a quilt. With a pattern, you always know where you will end up.

With art quilts, you never know what’s next.

So, this morning I had a friend dig out the dreaded ‘WIP’ box. Works In Progress, or WIPs have never been too concerning for me. I have a number of unfinished projects, but mostly a large box of things started at a workshop, or inspired by work at a workshop, and simply never used. I’ve made a couple of quilts from these orphaned WIPs, but I feel pushed now to finish everything in the box or begin sewing it together for a totally new project.

This was a FB challenge a couple years ago, which is now hanging on my design wall waiting to be finished. Each ‘block’ or ¼ of a circle was one day’s challenge. It’s pretty easy to make a small block every morning when I’m warming up, so this wasn’t a stretch. Now it’s 1st on my list to finish. I’ll keep you posted!

Is there something in your life you have started and would like to accomplish or something you want to finish that you haven’t yet done?

Beth