The 100 Day Project

I really enjoyed my 100 Day Project last year. While I knew I wanted to participate this year, I had a lot of trouble coming up with something to do. The night before it started last Tuesday, I finally decided to do something with my fabric scraps. It was mainly inspired by the fact that I’d just given away a bag of large-ish cuts of scraps to someone who’d posted on NextDoor about learning to sew, and was wondering what to do with all the small-ish pieces I still had left. The idea of doing something fun with those pieces seemed great!

So for the last 8 days, I’ve grabbed a random assortment of scraps and spent 5-10 minutes sewing them together without much rhyme or reason. I keep going until I have enough to be trimmed to a 5″ block, and then call it a day. It’s #100daysofsaroyscraps and these are three of my blocks so far.

And here’s the thing. Honestly? I don’t really like any of these. (The one below is arguably my favorite so far, and I still think it’s kind of meh.) And because of that, I’m not really feeling this project so far. I want to keep going, because I believe pretty strongly in the value of habits and in the idea that consistency and positive repetition can lead to new and interesting results. But I also don’t want to find myself in July with 100 5″ blocks that I don’t like and end up trashing.

So how to fix this? I’m not quite sure yet. I’ve made one argument to myself that I should just continue anyway, and see what happens. There’s definitely a chance that I could end up making blocks I love by the end of 100 days. Another option that would still be very much in line with is to stick with the improv sewing component (which is new and interesting to me), but identify a color palette or theme to keep things more cohesive — maybe jewel tones, or all solids. I suspect I would be much happier with that.

For the next few days, I plan on trying the “more cohesion” approach to see where that goes. Hopefully it works; if not, I welcome other ideas!