I've been thinking about what gets slapped on that Next Four list when I get through this bunch. One of the things I have is a sort of progressive quilt - a pass-around thing that I did a few years ago. It left me at a really troubled point in my adulthood, and returned when I was at a point where I didn't want to deal with "all of that." I opened the package up a while ago, and reading the journal that accompanied that quilt was painful. Maybe I'm not ready to go there yet, or maybe I just don't want to at all.
I'm perfectly accepting of the concept of dealing with a UFO by not dealing with it at all. Giving it to someone else gets it as done for me as finishing it myself. If it's no longer in my pile, it's no longer on my list. But what do I do with this one? There are blocks in there that are completely wrong - I specified one block and got several different ones. Those are easily dispatched to the block orphanage to be packed off to Linda for her Sojourner Center charity quilts along with my Quilters Cache test blocks. But the rest? Is it okay to ignore that collection a while longer? How long is too long? I guess whether I finish it NOW or LATER or NEVER doesn't have to be decided any time soon, right? It'll get done, or not, when it's ready, right?
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Maybe you could send it to Sharon, Denise, Ellen and Pat in Phoenix, and they can finish it up and donate it. If it brings you feelings you don't like, let them finish it and make someone else happy! Life is too short to waste time on things that don't make you happy.
And btw, who is baby Alida?
My mom! It's her birthday today! (but I'm a little annoyed with her so I wasn't going to say anything. Well, maybe tomorrow I will. Hey, I lost your email addy - mail me something so I can add you back to my address book.
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