I have no idea what I was thinking when I said I was going to finish my Red Kitty project before proceeding onto other things. I must have wandered into some alternate universe when this "pie in the sky" notion came to me because no way can I place this darling redwork project so high up in the first queue. Yes, I said first queue which to me is nothing more than a wish list of items waiting to be checked off as done, finished, abandoned. You know, did that, that, wanted to do that, thought I'd do that, nope, not doing that.
I once had a single queue whereby my projects in waiting were prioritized but soon I realized that it was necessary to add a queue to my queue. A place where when I finished something I could rotate a new project from queue-2 into the coveted queue-1 slot. Made sense to me and then it dawned on me how much more organized I would be if I would actually create subsets of each queue. In plain English, Q-1 stores my projects to be finished in the current year; Sub Q-1 defines the order they shall be completed. Q-2 is filled with this year's hopefuls, like Red Kitty, and Sub Q-2 defines, you guessed it, the order they shall be moved into Q-1 status. Red Kitty was high up in Sub Q-1 status but has now been downgraded so to speak to a high ranking spot on the Q-2 list.
Now, what all this Q-ing has done for me is it keeps my projects in front of me; changing them around is like changing the furniture, a new outlook and enthusiasm without making another purchase. A subtle reminder of things I have to look forward to and work toward. Ahhh, the stitching life is a good life.
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