I Want to Stitch All the Things!!

I have piles and piles of projects I want to do.

Actually, mountains of projects.

It's overwhelming. Sometimes it's hard to decide where to start.

BDE and I were talking about this very thing last evening. We may have figured out a way to tackle the problem. 

One of my online friends has a bin of WIPs by her stitching chair. She has numbered them. Then she has slips of paper with those numbers in a little basket. When she doesn't know where to start, she pulls out a slip and works on whatever project whose number she pulled. It doesn't make any difference if it's something she wants to do or not--she refers to it as Fate's Choice, and apparently she's found that once she starts stitching, all is right with the world and she is back in the rhythm. And she's getting things done rather than starting something new.

BDE has gaming dice, so it's easier for her to roll a number. She's going to try that for a bit.

I decided to work on about a half a dozen projects in July and see where that gets me.

Mine are:

• Carmen
• Carmen's Etui (which just needs to be assembled)
• Elizabethan Rose
• All That Glitters
• The Queen Sampler

I will continue to work on the Spot Sampler one day a week. It is now being referred to as the Five-Year-Project.

Meanwhile, this is what I accomplished last night on All That Glitters--I'm starting a new motif pattern!

Fingers crossed that this works, that both BDE and I have some finishes, and we can add new projects to the list as we finish the current batches.