Sew What? An impulsive sewing project that doesn’t matter

Day 1.

In accordance with my usual M.O., I have begun a new and totally unnecessary sewing project to suck up my day. I have plenty of other very time sensitive sewing projects to attend to ASAP: holiday gifts, binding my friends baby quilt (her baby is now a week old!), an up-and-coming fashion show collection, etc. But all has been cast aside because this one, for no good reason, is going to take precedence. (This is the story of my long history of procrastination.) And I am thinking now I can’t believe I have lived this long without it and how necessary and clever it is, all a way to justify an exercise in procrastination. It will probably be another uncompleted project because it is so impulsive & unnecessary, like the hundreds of other frivolous and unimportant projects left unfinished in piles, bins and corners.

Day 2.

What is this project? Pet food storage containers. The above entry sounded so pathetic, me admitting to my dismal habits of procrastination, that I managed to finish the project just so I could prove to myself (and you) that I could finish something. So, I transformed a few Quikrete buckets from a recent house remodel project into pet food storage containers by immortalizing my pets, Yob (the dog) and Spooky & Squiggy (the cats) and stitched their portraits on reclaimed fabric bucket covers. (I can’t believe I am appliquéing animals on things! I inch closer to crazy old cat lady everyday…) Our previous animal food storage method was a sordid affair, bending over to stack and unstack Rubbermaid bins. And what I really wanted to purchase costs about 80 bucks. So hence what you see above. Yay, now that I have completed my procrastination project and it is out of the way, I am free to move on to more important projects that matter. Yeah right?