I truly am slowing down now. My mom asked me when I was going to be done with these. I told her when I finish the bag of little strips that I got from a lady (Ewa) at the beginning of March. I had JUST finished the other strips from the church storage area when Ewa dropped off two more bags. I was almost desperate to finish them and then I got more. I was happy/sad.

Maybe you understand. Happy that I was getting help, but it meant a lot more work for me to get back to “done” with the strips. I was trying to actually catch up!

I am now finishing up those last two bags - well, I hope to actually finish them up in the next few days. When I finish with these, then I can begin to turn my focus to a few other things. And I will say that I mentioned to my husband even if I get given another couple of bags very soon, I will store them for a while since I just can’t use them right now. I don’t want to make half of my next year’s charity quilt tops all the same style, so I don’t want to quilt up 60 of these for next year. That means I do need to make OTHER types of tops and then mix it up more. I already have boxes and boxes of things I need to work on finishing up which will provide that variety.

So, never fear - I won’t. Making these tops has been pretty time consuming and I’m kind of tired of them.

I am aware enough to know that I need to keep myself interested if I am going to keep working hard. If I make myself burn out from doing all the same thing for a too long of time, I will begin to hate it and start avoiding my machine. I don’t want to do that. I actually will not allow myself to do that as I have too many other (fun) projects I want to do.

My husband just laughs at me when I say these kinds of things because he knows, and I know,that these are all self-imposed goals. :)

LOL

He’s right.

But I then told him, “Remember the Bible verse that says, “The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul”? Well, it’s true. But when I finish up this bag of strips, my desire will have been accomplished as far as these kinds of tops.

Once again - while I didn’t make the majority of the tops shown below, I did something to each of the ones shown.

The strips ones, I took the strips that were already joined and added them to 6.5”xWOF cut strips of menswear fabric we have had since 2017. They all make wonderful quilts and I always put something nice on the backs of these tops. This way even if the tops are less than stellar, in my opinion, there is always the other side.