This Way and That

The batik North Wind blocks have prevailed (prevailing winds from the North, right?) over Dying of Cute.  Those little pink and gray sweethearts have been set aside for a more peaceable time.  For just as these blocks are going this way and that, so am I.  And, frankly, I'm not crazy about it.

Not wanting to settle into a detailed whine, suffice it to say that it's the hiring season at the school where I work and much of my time is spent on tedious detail work.  A committee from church has me at sixes and sevens; I'm having trouble reconciling myself to what they are trying to accomplish.  Worst of all, I'm over-committed in the sewing division:  I agreed to two one-on-one craft swaps and I still have five Pay It Forward projects to produce.  Plus a couple of blocks that I've agreed to make for folks.  And the COW swap to try to organize.  And a quilting workshop I'm putting together for ten days from now.

So, like the North Wind blocks, I'm This Way and That.  Oddly, I have the perfect fabric for the setting triangles already -- it was left over from some other batik project I made.  This Way and That.  It's how I feel, and working on the blocks actually helps me to focus, to settle down, to take pleasure in process.  When life mimics art, or something.