I scream, you scream, The Scream

I'm fresh off the weekend and... I don't know how I feel about it. I was going to talk about it at length like I do, mulling over how my desire to do nothing is constantly at odds with my anxiety that I SHOULD be doing something, but instead, here's some memes:

Anyway, now that we have that all cleared up, I can move on and show you the thing I did, in fact, actually do. The benefit of enjoying hobbies such as sewing is that you can essentially spend all your free time parked on the sofa watching you significant other play Breath of the Wild while doing it and not change out of your PJs all day (don't worry, we did take a walk on Sunday) but if someone asks you what you did, you can show them your project, which I will do now:

Do you like how I also forced you to look at my plant in this pic? Check out that variegation!

I've been working on this piece on and off for ages. It, for some reason, turned into the thing I did when I was between other projects- after my initial spurt, I largely ignored it. I'm not sure why because it was super enjoyable to work on. It's my first full coverage piece and though it has a lot of swirling colors, they're placed in such a way that you don't have to switch threads a ton, making it most definitely NOT tedious to work on. It's a 6 inch circle and yes, I did cut the fabric way too small (Somehow I only noticed this pretty late in the game) but I've ordered a round frame that should- hopefully- work. Per usual though, I'm too impatient to wait until it's framed to share it. 

I bought this pattern last year from an Etsy shop that is, apparently, no longer in existence (but just to give credit where it's due, it was HarpSealCrossStitch), and in case you did not know, it is Edvard Munch's "The Scream" mashed up with No Face from the Studio Ghibli movie "Spirited Away." I'm extremely happy with it and I can't wait to find a place to hang it up.

Now that this is complete, I find myself without a ton of projects to jump on. It's strange, I thought I'd feel better about getting things done but I already miss not having something in the works already. Its partly an exciting world-of-possibilities feeling like you get when you finish one book and it's time to figure out what to read next, but also partly an ugh-now-I-have-to-do-all-that-new-project-prep-work feeling. The work leading up to starting a new sewing project is, for me, not something I feel like doing when the urge to sew is upon me. A different brain space is involved I guess.

Actually, technically I have started a new project in the form of a literary themed embroidery stitch-along that's been organized by a Facebook group I'm in. I figured it was a good way to delve into embroidery, something I've been meaning to do for a long time but didn't know where to start. The project will be a total of 5 bookmarks (though, I'm not separating them into bookmarks), each one being a design based on a literary genre. I'm currently working on classic romance but the next genre will be out in a week. I think I'll enjoy it- I already am- and it's good that I'm working "with" people (so to speak) because that way I'm more motivated to follow through with the project and also I can ask questions along the way (they're also putting out helpful videos!). 

It's most definitely a lot different from cross stitch though, so I've still got "find another project" on my plate. I'd like to switch back to working on my own designs which is another brain space altogether. 

I'm realizing as I type this that my brain is filled with a lot of weird spaces that clearly don't like each other...