Finishing Days

I've been accused of being ADD, something I've always denied. Now I'm giving it second consideration and there actually may be some truth to the accusation. It seems that I am always overwhelmed by projects that need just a tad more energy or work to be completed. "Are you finished?" asks my quilting buddy, Randi. "Well, I'm almost finished. I just have a button a label to make." I reply. "Well that isn't finished and until it is done, it's NOT finished" she quips back. I lose focus before projects are completely finished in all aspects of my life. Frustrating to be sure! So we decided to develop some adaptive behaviors and have quilt/sewing days to finish projects.

Our first finishing day was Wednesday, July 22, and I managed to put the straps and button on my Dad's apron and put the binding and labels on the quilt for the Watkins family. I accomplished this with a good measure of whining, I'll admit. After arriving at 11:00 am and setting up my machine, my first question was when are we going to eat? Randi insisted that, until I finished a project, I was not going to eat. I got right on my Dad's apron and had it finished in no time. Then on to the quilt. I tried shifting gears and work on Betty's apron but Randi held my nose to the grindstone (imagine that feat!) and I finished project number 2. Now that I'm on a roll, so to speak, I am also finishing sewing the binding on the quilt for baby Katherine Dawson.

We have a second finishing day on Friday, July 31. I plan to complete my stepmom's apron and sew the blocks for a baby quilt I started years ago to gift to my niece's baby, born in late May. So the days are helping me focus on getting things COMPLETELY done. Thank you Randi for being such a task master and bringing me backto focus. I really do appreciate her efforts despite my whining and complaining and the best part about it is that I am finishing projects.