Whatever happened to Studio Saturday?

My weekly resume of art/making "progress" has stalled. Not because of lack of progress - things are getting done - but ... why? what's the problem?

The problem is lack of time and motivation to sit down at the computer. Pix get posted to instagram (@margaretcooter), though I try not to post more than once a day. Thoughts, which used to get organised via this blog, are all over the place. Messages get sent, email gets read, on the phone.

And when I do sit down at the computer, how easy it is to get distracted! Watching wolf puppies playing fetch, for instance, or checking out a newly-encountered artist (this one or that one, for instance - or some other). Or finding a recipe, or two. Or silly stuff. (Watching Gresham lectures is also done on the computer, but of an evening, as an adjunct to stitching etc.)

(It's been rather distracting to find those links, for instance.)

What's been happening in the studio since 7 December?

No pots have been made at the ceramics studio. I feel bad about that, but haven't had a compelling creative pot-related thought (though finding the photo has stirred the creative juices -.

"Sewing studio" activity has been ramped up by attending a course on making a trouser block (like this), and making zipped and drawstring bags for Christmas, as well as patchwork balls for the grandbaby.

Recommended by the tutor

Saves on wrapping paper! Quick to make, and
reduces the fabric stash

So many little pieces!

Even smaller pieces! And some of these needed
unpicking so that the same patterns didn't touch

Place mats at and tablecloth were made -

From a remnant and some shirts

Lithuanian linen, careful not to spill anything....

Sewing studio set-up

And the art studio? That has moved from the frontroom table -

 into the capacious but crowded "studio/storage room" -

The table under the window is sometimes overcrowded -

 and sometimes under control -

 "sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits" -

 ... or I gets on with it ...

 Playing with new tubes of watercolour paint -

Currently the project is to figure out how to set out the detail blocks for "the jugs" woodblock print -

Colouring-in, hours of pleasure!