Showing posts with label when to stop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label when to stop. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Knowing When It's Time to Stop (for the day)

 

I started sewing this together on Saturday, but didn't get much done. Sunday morning I got up and went right into the studio after breakfast and worked till noon. Then I had lunch and went back. I completed the big area outlined in red in the center. 

After a break of dealing with the bills, I went back into the studio and worked on the area at the top in the center. I wanted to finish that whole section before I stopped for the day but about 4:30 I took a bathroom break and realized my shoulders were hurting. I went back into the studio and looked at it. Nope. I was tired. The last thing I need is to fall off the ladder and hurt myself.

At my age I have to listen to my body. It was time to stop. I put my tools away, turned off the lights and went into the living room to read.

Since I cannot get the entire design up on the design wall I can't sew it together using the webbing technique. Which is fine with me as I have a love/hate relationship with it anyway. So I have been sewing it together the old fashioned way. A pair of blocks at a time. Which is still problematic because the design shifts. When I was working on the center section on Saturday I had to unsew pairs of blocks FIVE different times because I kept sewing the pieces together wrong. That was when I knew it was time to stop that day. (I made a visit to my local art museum instead.)

The next day I moved blocks from the top of the design to my ironing table and worked on one section at a time. This is the section at the upper left.

By the end of Monday I had this. The top left part is in two big chunks. The top right needs six more columns to the right. The blank area is what I am working on now. I am really happy with it.