Last night while doing some work on my embroidered jacket I had the mutinous thought that I could just stop with the sleeves. They really would look lovely with my Flanders Gown. I would be done so much sooner! Hmmmmm….
The truth is that sometimes you get part way through a project and you make the decision to change it. It happens and it’s no big deal. But sometimes those thoughts about changing the project are just our mind’s ways of tricking us into copping out. In this particular case I think it’s the latter. I’ve been working on the jacket off and on for a long time now. I’m not as far along as I would like to be (there’s that “off and on” thing rearing its ugly head) and sometimes I think about other embroidery projects I’d like to be doing.
It’s true that I could finish the sleeves and enjoy wearing them while I finished the rest of the jacket but my fear is that if I did that I would have a much more difficult time time completing the project than if I went on the finish the rest of the embroidery.
And I really do want to finish this project. Not just the sleeves but the whole thing. In order to do that I need to dedicate regular time to it and banish those mutinous thoughts. I’m back to regular embroidery sessions and I just need to keep at it. Slow and steady may not get things done quickly but it will get them done in the end. And I really think once I have the sleeves finished it will start to seem like it’s all down hill from there.
So I must banish my mutinous thoughts and complete project! Even if the sleeves would look totally awesome with my Flanders Gown. Maybe when the jacket is done I start some scarletwork sleeves for it.
Hmmmmm…scarletwork….
) Since I was going to embroider the forehead cloth to match the coif it was important that I use the same embroidery pattern and I wanted to repeats to be the same as well.
