Maggie Progress and Rotation Thoughts
25 June 2005 Comments Off
Today I passed the 100 hour mark (actually I am at 104 hours) on “Passing Admirers!” Maggie now has a head, hair, and a hat. I feel really good about the momentum I have going with this piece and think that I am about 70% done with it. I don’t think I should have any problem finishing it by September.
However, working so intently on “Passing Admirers” has got me to thinking about my rotation again. I can’t decide if I have become a screamer with a focus (Heh, that sounds kinda funny…) of if I am a OAATer.
Sometimes I think that I am more of a one-at-a-timer at heart: After all, I used to be a very strict OAATer. No matter how large or small a piece was I would work on it until I was finished. I did lots of small pieces because I liked variety and I never even entertained the thought of rotating.
When I bought “Passing Admirers” though, I started pondering the idea of rotating. As much as I wanted to stitch it I was afraid that if I tried only to stitch it I would become bored and go into a stitching slump.
And so my rotation was born. At first I tried to rotate using the famous 10 hour system, but it didn’t work for me at all. Though I liked keeping track of how many hours I stitched, the whole system felt too scattered and constrained and it quickly fell apart. For quite sometime I have just been doing a screaming rotation and while it worked for me, I found that some pieces were quite neglected.
That is when I tacked a “focus piece” into the mix. It seems to be working well: I have gotten a lot done on my focus piece and still have other projects to work on if I get bored. However, since most of my stitching time is ending up on the focus piece, should I consider myself a OAATer again?
Funny… just as I was pondering this very issue, it comes up on the Rotation Stitchers’ Bulletin Board. One response to this was to look at stitching on a continuum with the strict OAATer on one end and the hard-core rotators on the other. From that point of view then, I would say that I am probably half way to the half way point. (ha ha)
All in all I guess it doesn’t really matter: The important thing isn’t what to call myself, but what I eventually accomplish!
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