Please just finish something

Would that I had gotten my sewing room as organized as the sewing room closet, also known as home to the turtleneck collection, the sweater collection, and the boot collection as well as some fabric.   At some point during the summer I had shoved all the UFO's into that closet hoping to consolidate them and go through them, perhaps even finish a couple, but I haven't gotten to that yet. 

Now they are all on the cutting table, a mountain of reproach, a testament to dreams unrealized.  The weight of unfulfilled promise is crushing.

How can I begin something new when each new project gets started and abandoned, only adding to the pile of "could have beens". 

My short term goal is to finish a UFO (or more) a week.  And also to finish every new project I start.  I cannot add to the mountain of regret.

My determination has been strengthened by the completion of another project, albeit one that is non-sewing related with the exception of a few pattern drafting/alteration.  Who knew that pattern paper was so useful?

Presenting the new landing at the top of the basement stairs.  I take no responsibility for the landing, which was created by removing the door at the top of the stairs (edge by first blue step) and putting in a new door (out of sight at the bottom of the photograph). 

The floor however, is mine.

This is just a commercial-grade vinyl, left over from something else.  I had planned on glueing the vinyl down to an underlayment I asked the carpenter to intall after he ripped up the old carpet.

Somehow, in my distracted state  on Monday, with the carpenters, electrician, pest-control guy, and a very confused and unhappy Mr. Distracted, I managed to let the carpenter leave without putting down the 1/4" plywood.  He did trim the opening where the door had been very nicely with molding down to the yucky subfloor which was complete with a few holes.  Obviously it would not do.

After I got the DH calmed down from the hubub, and after dinner, I assessed the situation and realized that I could not put down the vinyl floor, that the stair-lift people were coming today to install the stair-lift, and I had a lot of work to do.

There was no way I would take up the molding, put in the floor and put the molding back, trimmed to size.  So I had to work around it.  Hence the table paper.  Since the landing wasn't square anyway, it proved handy.

I had feared that my skills with a saw and would not be adequate for cutting the plywood to the right size and shape. But I managed to get it in just perfectly,

I am most proud of those little notched corners around the opening to the once door.  Sometimes any finished project is a great boon to creativity, and there has been a severe shortage of completed projects, on any front — home or personal — the past few months.

Now to tackle those UFO's.  Well, perhaps I will sleep first.