I worked a full week! I feel like things are back on track a month now after getting Covid and I am feeling myself again. I am pretty happy to be able to do more and not feel like I need a nap after every activity or that every day tasks need a Herculean effort to complete. It was totally exhausting and mentally draining.

I am fully immersed in the fall right now. The garden is spent and now it is dying back. The trees are not peak color yet but will be in a week or so. I am surrounded by my fall decorations in my home and office. The nights are crisp and cool with many in the 30s and the day light hours are getting shorter and shorter. I have been burning candles on dreary days and have embrace the hygge comfy cozy mindset. I can’t believe we have a week until it is October.

I have had a week where I am doubting all of my creative endeavors. I made 4 pumkpin blocks from the Scrappiness is happiness book and I am not sure I want to go on. I have only a block or two from the Stitchy Stars Seasonal Table runner left to make and none of my stars are very good. The points aren’t preserved and all I see is how horrible they look. I think it is the way the pattern has the blocks constructed. I want to make them but I think I need to redraft methods that work better for me.

When this happens, I stop working on those projects. I am taking them off the design wall today and putting them in time out. I found an easier and adorable pumpkin pattern through Pat Sloan’s YouTube, a freebie from FQS. I want to make one of these it makes a 20 inch quilt top that can be a door banner or a toss pillow.

I also found my Elemantary wrap that I have been knitting on for a couple of years. It’s easy mindless knitting that is pretty grounding and relaxing. I got my supplies in the mail to stitch the Fall Ornaments for Stitchtober with Fat Quarter Shop. I just need something fresh to work on to reset the mind and if nothing ever happens with the two previously mentioned projects I started, I am ok with it. I am sure I will finish them but until the lens I see them in changes from “they are really horrible projects” to a more empathetic lens that “they aren’t so bad”, they will be put away. No point in wasting my time and getting upset about them. It happens when we make things. Not everything is completed in a linear fashion and I change my mind many times in the process of making quilts that what I started out with may not resemble the finish at all. The loving and hating projects is part of my process.

https://www.fatquartershop.com/patchwork-pumpkin-pillow-free-pdf-pattern

I have to say the weather has been beautiful and it is supposed to stay sunny and 70 for the weekend. We have to get out a do the weekly errands, grocery shop and such. I have football on my schedule and plan a nice chill weekend home. I am excited that this week we are starting to get Hello Fresh. I have been struggling with meals now for about 6 weeks since we stopped Home Chef because they couldn’t get the food here on time for it to be fresh to use. Meal planning, getting all the ingredients and cooking has also been horrible. I have ruined several meals. We have had weird food dinners often and I am ready for some good meals. I hope they don’t have the shipping problems.

Here’s to a good weekend, strong coffee, football and fall projects!

Vicki