Tree Skirt is FINISHED!

It's finally finished.  At 2:00pm this afternoon, I finally finished the Christmas Tree Skirt I have been working on for a while now! Woohoo!

I had originally though this would be one of those easy projects I could finish in an afternoon or so.  I had purchased some fabric at the quilt store in Bozeman on one of our Bobcat weekends, and matched it with a few more remnants I had in my stash. I sat down one afternoon about a month ago thinking I could do the whole thing from scratch and be done in a day or two at most.

I had only done minimal research on Christmas Tree Skirts. I never made more than a vague outline of a plan for this one and didn't follow a pattern. From the start, this was a "make-it-up-as-you-go" project.  It was a project that continued to evolve with every seam sewn.  Even now that it is "done".... I still feel like there is more I could do to make it better!  Furthermore, if you look closely, you can see improvisations made where my lack of advanced planning got the better of me.

As I think about my process in completing this project, I think it is a great parallel for how I live my life.  I often don't make plans, and just see where my thoughts and feelings take me, trusting that the process can be just as exciting as the end result.  I believe that the plan will evolve as I go along. This is in great contrast to my husband, who often has a well-conceived plan in his mind even before an idea has occurred in my own.  Maybe that's another reason why we work.