You know how sometimes you just. don't. feel. like doing anything? You've got that feeling like you should be doing something, but you just don't wanna?



Previously, when I got in that space, I used to make simple quilts like nine patches or railway ties, a lot of baby quilts got made in that space with incredibly detailed quilting - to get me back in the swing of things.



A few weeks ago, I was noodling around online and I found a site called Made By Joel. Joel (shockingly, given the title of his blog) makes stuff.  Yup.  For his kids and wife and home, and his blog chronicles that process. 

He also offers some basic embroidery patterns for free - and the first one I looked at I thought "that might be great for learning how to thread paint" and I also thought they 'd be great for when I didn't feel like doing anything.




And that happened when I got access to my sewing room again this week.  So I pulled out some of his patterns and some of my hand-dyed fabric experiments, watched Buffy on  DVD and practiced.



And practiced and practiced!  I'm getting better(which is good after all this practice) - but now I'm ready to move on to something else - until I feel like practicing again.

These little guys will return at some point, I'm sure.  :)