There is a bit of monotony to the Straits of Mackinac color palette and putting its blocks and sashing together that I find myself wanting to play with other projects at the moment. But I really do want to finish it!
So, I’m playing games, trying to find ways around the boredom, and using incentives to make progress and still give that other creative and impatient part of my brain something to do.
I have all of the units together right now to make blocks and to make sashing. So I’m doing a little piecing of sashing units, and every once in a while, I sew a half square triangle (or maybe a flying geese unit) for a different quilt. I get to see different colors and different fabrics, and that really seemed to help motivate me this past weekend. I didn’t get to spend a ton of time in the sewing room, but I did sew some, and that’s an improvement over the past few weeks.
I also have a plan for the blocks – instead of trying to put them together one at a time, the units are all stacked in block order. So I’m going to piece all of one section of the blocks together before moving on to the next section. I’ll piece all of the upper-right four-patches to the upper-middle tri-recs. When those are finished, I plan to do the middle-right tri-recs to the centers, and so on (I tend to piece blocks and quilts starting from the right side instead of from the left). We’ll see how that goes.