What I Really Want to Do...

No matter what I'm working on, something else sounds so much better!! 

I'm knee deep in Cotton, with the Quiltville Mystery, "Roll Roll Cotton Boll," and I really want push through and get it finished since the border segment (and the last one to complete the top!) came out today.  I'm still working on the string blocks, but I can finish the top this weekend, I'm sure.  (Don't mind the Farmer's Wife blocks on the lower right corner! LOL)

The UFO Challenge keeps begging my attention, too!  I put up the "American Heritage" pieces that make up the #6 UFO on the list of 12.  They are in my beloved Thimbleberries colors, all dark and fallish and -- it's the only Log Cabin I've made (well, started, anyway!).  Quilting for 20 years and never did a log cabin!! Crazy! And I so wanna get this four-year old start finished up!

But I also have a class coming up in a couple of weeks.  I'm teaching quick piecing techniques and one of the quilts we're looking at is "Ribbons" from Kim Brackett's book Scrap Basket Surprises.  I'm making a queen size, and I just need to sit down and finish up the last few blocks.  It's also calling my name.

And well....I didn't work on any of them.  Instead, I baked some homemade french bread sandwiches with ham and swiss (my friend Brenda's recipe!  It's so easy and good! and my late momma's old, old rolling pin, how sweet!) -- somthing I didn't need to do since I'm watching what I eat to lose weight...

Do you ever find yourself doing the very thing you know you don't need to be doing right now!?  Paul wrote about his inner conflict in Romans, chapter 7.  He said, "For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [[b]which my moral instinct condemns]....I know that nothing good dwells within me, that is, in my flesh. I can will what is right, but I cannot perform it. [I have the intention and urge to do what is right, but no power to carry it out.]   I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am [ever] doing" (verses 15, 18-19 Amplified).

Baffled and bewildered.  Uh huh.  Know that feeling well.  Paul said, though, that in spite of his inclination to do wrong, that Christ could and would set him free of this conflict.  Furthermore, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus."  (Romans 8:1)

As quilters, we put a lot of guilt on ourselves and each other for not accomplishing, not completing, not perfecting...be it projects, or housework, or investments in the people we love.  I think sometimes we need to stop and consider...that if the Lord Himself offers forgiveness and frees us from condemnation for our sin, we can also let these little things go and rest in Him.

I'm gonna work on Roll, Roll, and American Heritage and Ribbons in good time.  I'm going to eat one of my yummy homemade bread sandwiches and not splurge unduly on my diet.  Conflict resolved.  I am free!!  Doesn't it feel good!?!

Blessings!