Slogging Away

There's an old saying, "You have to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince."

I discovered a few fabrics that just didn't fit. They were too brown or too orange or too pale.  Ok, no problem. Those went.

 

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I was not happy with this. I worked all day long and just couldn't get it to come together.

It wasn't like I didn't know where I was going. I had a plan. (Thank you Cathy, for making me make outlines to draw on for the Zebra Tutorial.)

I kept at it. Finally, after almost 12 hours, I surrendered and went to bed.

The next morning I bowed to the inevitable, and admitted my previous plan just wasn't working. I began to arrange the blocks in the Golden Zebra layout.

But that didn't thrill me either. It wasn't even OK. I didn't even LIKE it!

But me being me, I persisted.

And persisted.

And persisted. Finally I just walked out of the studio and ignored it for a couple of days.

When the big storm Isaias (?) blew through, the winds knocked some of the blocks off the wall.

I left them there.

Good riddance, I thought. It's BROKEN! HAHAHA! Let it stay broken.

Then I remembered that sometimes you have to BREAK something in order to FIX it. Break it again, and break it good.

As usual, when I get stuck, I walk away. I spent the rest of the evening on the couch reading. I could fix it TOMORROW.

And I did.