What Next?

I don't feel any great need to work on UFOs or to get stuck into a new project, but I'm not one to sit around and do nothing. I watched a few YouTube videos and saw a batik Disappearing 9Patch that I liked. I haven't touched my batiks in a while, so I had a hunt around and dug out a few.

If course the 9Patches are super simple, so I had a few made in very little time. I'm liking the blue and brown and cream colours. A lot of these were scrap pieces and I used them up entirely. 5" strips tend to chew up the fabric pretty quickly.

Of course there's always the lament of 'But I have no cream batiks!' I cut up nearly all the ones I found, but there is a piece that has more than a metre in it. Why does it not seem right to make all those backgrounds out of one fabric? I'm resisting the urge to pop into the local quilt shop and just see what they have available. It would be silly to buy more, surely.

I put together the blue and green blocks that were on the design wall, and added a small border to finish it off. This is top No. 22 for this year, and that might explain my reluctance to jump in and finish something else. I don't need to get busy on top No.23, and I should prioritise cleaning up, and organising, before I make any further mess.

I had 25 blocks left over after I sewed this together, so that will be the start of another project. They can wait in the project box, while I go through all the UFOs and take my time deciding what will be my next commitment. I think I've done quite well this year, making sure that neglected projects saw some progress.