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Nothing is Perfect

Lucky! Because nothing much is exactly what I’ve got for you today. I did finish a UFO on Sunday, but it’s such an embarrassingly late and little finish that I am a bit loath to share it. Just a drop in the ocean of UFOs! But in anticipation of the unfortunate likelihood that I will be scraping the bottom of the barrel for projects finished for my PhD come December, I’ll record it now. That and it might make some of you feel better about a stalled project or two. It happens to the best of us. And me. 😀 And you are probably not as slack as me!

Apart from that, I’ve been busy wrangling children to appointments and classes, cats to the vet, boxes into the newly acquired trailer, dirt from house nooks and crannies we didn’t even know we had. Yup, hubby and I actually found a new nook in our house after 10 years of ownership…. at 4am this morning….. true story!

I already have one PhD, but this one might suit me better!

There are so many things I want to do in 2020, but one thing high on my list is to reduce the number of unfinished objects (UFOs) in my sewing room. I’d like to substantially clear the decks for a fresh start in 2021.

Many of the unfinished quilts against my name are from my early quilting days (2012-2015). I found that once I became an Island Batik Ambassador in 2018 I didn’t have time to get back to many of my pre-existing UFOs. And while that was ok for a time, 2020 is my year to fix this.

To get this done, I have chosen a support crew. You! And Gail of Quilting Gail blog, who has a PhD program…. for Projects Half Done. I probably need to do this program for both my sewing in 2020 and my pattern writing, but let’s just go with sewing for now. The rules are: Finish what you start in 2020, and nominate 12 (or more) already started projects to also finish in 2020.

You are invited to join me in tackling your unfinished sewing projects in 2020. And to take a rare peek into the Chameleon’s sewing past before the blog and Island Batik ambassadorship. There are a couple of newer projects in the mix, but many of them well and truly pre-date my blog.

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