Creativity

I am trying to use up some scraps by making little wallets for gifts.  I have three more wallets to make tomorrow. My goal was to make twelve tonight so that I could deliver them tomorrow to my co-workers.  I got too tired.  We all know what that means.  MISKATES !

The nice thing about restricting my choices to my scrap stash is that I have to go through all of it to match up fabrics.  I reminisce over past projects ( mostly quilts).  Some of this I have had since I started quilting 12 years ago.  It also limits my choices to what I have in the scrap pile.  So I get creative.   It is a fun project and I finally sewed today.  FINALLY.  It is hard to sew with only one working thumb.  The splint is cumbersome.  I cannot easily cut fabric but I have learned how to thread the machine one handed.  Still I nurtured that creative spark today.  It felt good.

I also nurtured the tidy spark.  Well, I was trying to discipline my messy self, really.  I cleared off the cutting table.  It had gotten out of hand.  It took me most of the morning.  I had vowed to pick up after myself from now on.  I didn't do so tonight.  I just left things as they were.  Tomorrow after I finish the wallets I will tidy up.  Promise.  I don't want it to get this bad again.