Five Minute Friday: Finish

by Kath

Finish - it's so often harder to finish something than to start it.  Just recently, our five year old started a picture, a rainbow picture, which required lots of little pieces of paper, cut out of seven different coloured pieces, and stuck onto curved rows on cardboard.   She had lots of fun cutting out all the paper pieces but became really overwhelmed at seeing it all over the floor and seeing all the empty rows than needed lots of glue and fiddly work to finish it.   She cried and wanted to leave it there, till big sister came along and helped and now it looks great.   I'm often the same.  I get really inspired to do some amazingly creative project, get it all designed, search for the fabric, cut it out, and then get overwhelmed, lose confidence, get busy, get tired, or get excited over some other new project and don't get it finished.   I have two such projects at the moment, both that I want to do, but somehow the planning and the designing and the finding of the material is more interesting than actually getting on with the sewing and cutting and finishing.   That looks a lot more like tedious work than all the inspiring stuff.  These two projects will stay in my spare room as lots of bits of fabric and never be any use to anyone, so I need to get on with them so they are finished and beautiful and useful - one for our bed, one as a welcome gift for a friend who's been here 12 months already.