This is the post for last week (May 17-23).  Though I fell behind a few days, I am now caught up and will finish this year’s 100 Day Project on its official completion date of June 1.  I think it was beneficial to me that my blip in daily creating came so close to the end of the project.  Because the conclusion is near, it was easy to convince myself that I was only a few days behind and had only a few more days to go, giving up was not an option.  I knew that I would be disappointed in myself if I didn’t see this year’s project through to the end.   This all had me wondering, at what point in a long term project are we willing to throw in the towel and not finish?  Less than halfway?  Under 75%?  Or is it a state of mind, a feeling that can come at any point, crushing the creative spirit and the desire to continue?

I started but did not complete the 2025 100 Day Project.  I made it less than twenty-five days, I think.  My plan was to make a quilt top.  It should have been easily do-able, even for me, a novice at quilt making.  What stopped me?  In one word…Perfectionism.  I think I got eight blocks made and was ready to put a strip together.  I could not square the blocks.  Trying to pin them together magnified every tiny, and not so tiny, imperfection in both cutting and sewing.  I did not build into my hundred days overcoming problems like this.  So, to save my mental health, I quit.  And, I have not looked at that project since.  I may go back to it some day.  I may use the remaining cut blocks for something else.  I may totally repurpose the fabric.  What I learned from my experience last year is that I need to choose a 100 Day Project that has no place for perfectionism.  That is how this year’s process was born.

This week’s Meditations may be the most authentic of all of them because they relied mostly on instinct and little on thought, which was my intent with this project all along. However, though I have been able to put my tendencies toward perfectionism aside, judgement still creeps in.  I have found myself criticizing some of these pieces rather than appreciating them for what they are and what they have to say to me.  This is the kind of lesson and opportunity for personal growth that comes from undertaking a project like this one.  Mission accomplished!

Here are Meditations #85-91.  Thank you for sticking with me!
”Meditation #85”

“Meditation #86”

 

“Meditation #87”

 

“Meditation #88”

“Meditation #89”

“Meditation #90”

 

“Meditation #91”