x & + = progress

Ah, summer. The months we spend cooped up in a (hopefully) air-conditioned box, and occasionally break up the monotony with some half-hearted floating in the pool. For me, summer is a time I equate with sweat, lethargy, and a total lack of creative inspiration. I just feel too cooped up and/or hot to want to bother. 

I wonder, is it the opposite for people who live in colder climes? Do you feel less inspired to sew (or knit or bake) when it's snowing outside? For me, as soon as fall comes and the weather starts to cool (even if it's just pretend cool, because really, fall is more like summer, part II around here) I start getting all sorts of motivated. I feel like I'd be even more motivated if I lived up north. Something about snow and baking and quilting just seem like should go together. But maybe not? Who knows.

Anyway, about the only thing I've been up to lately has been getting things organized for our first week back homeschooling, and sewing some more of my scrappy x & + blocks.

I admit there is a part of me that sees all the random blocks, random colors, and goes NyuuuhhH and starts twitching. But. I really want to use all my scraps. I want to use colors that I tend to ignore in my quilting (like browns...ugh. Brown) and I know that even though each block may look like a hot mess, the end result could very well be brilliant. 

Of course, there's the always the possibility it could be a total disaster.

Six blocks down today. Time to go float in the pool.