I often find in tasks that I have ahead of me, that the task is so big that there’s no way I can complete it in one go. This happens in all aspects of life, including quilting and around the house. I was facing two of these last week – the 18 blocks for the Knitted Star quilt and cleaning up my garage. Oh my. That garage is in rough shape. I was bemoaning the situation and all of a sudden my brain said “you don’t have to do it all in one effort, that’s the great myth.”

Wow. That phrase has been rolling around in my head for a week now. I guess in some ways I’ve always known this. I got the house unpacked from moving last year by doing one box a day. Didn’t unpack until I was done, I unpacked a little at a time, on a regular schedule and about 3.5 months after I moved, I was unpacked.

This past weekend, I sewed a good chunk of time every day. I didn’t sew from sun up to sun down, and I got some other things around the house done as well, but I sewed every day (had Friday off of work, so it was a 3 day weekend) and over the weekend I made the last 9 blocks for the Knitted Star and just like that my 18 blocks are done. Next up is actually assembling the top with the sashing and corner stones.

I spent a little time in the garage, and while it is far from done, I did something. If I keep doing something every weekend, at some point I will step back and have a neatly organized garage where I can find things without having to climb over them. That is going to be pretty close to being a miracle. It’s still early enough in the process that I look at the mess and think that there’s no way I can do all this, then I muck in and move a couple of things. Another step done.

I can do this. I can keep telling myself that all at once is just the great myth. Just do something every day and one day you will look around and be stunned at the progress you’ve made. Something every day.