The good news is that I've learned that last year's (month's, week's, decade's) version of being stuck usually vanishes shortly after I haul the project out to see the light of day. Whatever I might have thought of as insurmountable at one time, is often easily overcome with the benefit of time. Sometimes this is because I've just worked it up into a much bigger problem than it really was....sometimes I learn to just accept whatever was bothering me....sometimes I've learned something new in the interim....and sometimes I simply decide that to try something and fail is better than having things hanging around gathering dust. At least if it really doesn't work, I can toss the lot and assuage my guilt.
Remember the Table Mats I started making last summer? They've been hibernating for a whole year now....and after talking about it for weeks, I finally got around to pulling them out tonight. I think they were abandoned because I didn't know how I was going to sew on the binding - or if I even had enough fabric to make it. But after three hours of ironing, cutting, making mitred seams (this tool is awesome - and works every time!), pinning, sewing, and pinning some more.....the first table pad is ready for action!
We are having a family gathering at the campsite this weekend, so it will get it's debut....and I will try to take some snaps of it in situ. Once I try it out on the table and make sure it fit and works okay, I plan to resume working on pad #2. In the meantime, it's looking like this....
Something tells me it's going to take more than 3 hours to finish off the next one....LOL! But at least I know that I am going to have enough fabric to finish off the binding (I didn't quite use half on the first one...yippee!)
