I was appalled to note that the last time I published a post was 2/11/25. I have excuses. We were on a week's vacation to Albuquerque with college friends. An emergency room trip for my husband stretched our stay an additional four days while he was in the hospital. In addition, we both contracted Flu-A and we were both laid low til that subsided. I certainly did no major projects during that episode.
The situation is a Catch-22. Quilting and sewing lifts my spirits and moods yet my energy level was down. I had other projects in progress. I had posts begun for them but the projects were paused or stalled at some decision points. Borders on a blue/orange quilt? FMQ pattern on an O's quilt? I needed something small and quick requiring minimal brain power to speed my road to recovery and creativity. I opted for Strategy #3 Simple Projects from Karen Brown's YouTube video Help? Where's My SewJo...6 Strategies to Overcoming Sewing Burnout (at time = 3:11).
I found these green and mauve pieces in my sewing room during a pre-trip tidying session. They date back to a small quilt group I was in at work, long before I retired twelve years ago. They were filed away with a pattern that had no correlation whatsoever to the precut pieces of fabric. "Filed" is a generous term; more accurately they were randomly buried and they surfaced. I had four triangle pairs, (enough to make 4 HSTs) and twenty squares (enough to make 5 four-patch blocks). "What can I do with these?" I wondered.
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