Full Speed Ahead, Again!

It all began innocently enough. I contacted a friend about purchasing an appliqué roll-up to store my blocks in while under construction. I already have one, it contains all the blocks from my three year old Southern Album. I wanted a second roll; for my current project, "Hop To It". The more I thought about my own request the more ridiculous it sounded, even to me! Why would I need yet another roll-up, to store yet another set of blocks? How about finishing up that quilt with the blocks from the first set; thus, freeing up the block keeper for the current project? Brilliant! I pulled out the thirteen blocks I had done, there are only two more to go, plus the borders. That's it. So, what was the obstacle? When I took a good, careful, objective look I knew why I had abandoned this task back in the waning months of 2008. Two of my blocks made me very unhappy. I was displeased with the color placement and the workmanship. I took one of them apart, it just plain made me feel good to do that! It has now been redone. I'm reconstructing the second one and am very happy with my progress on that one too. It's full steam ahead, all over again. I posted about "slow and steady" a few days ago. I might be long on the slow part and short on the steady, but I still feel a kinship to the tortoise on this one. I'm on a "roll"; it feels good, and better yet, I'm only using one of those for my blocks!

Life is Good!