I notice a theme emerging here after only 4 posts. I jump around a lot when it comes to projects! I always have 2 or 3 (or 10) different things going at once. I'll work on one for awhile, then abandon it totally for up to years at a time. But I usually aways swing back around to finish. I used to think that meant I didn't have the discipline to complete a project, but now I've come to think I just have a long "process" time. I like to look at my work for a long time when it's in it's 1/2 finished state. Then at some point -after thinking about it, turning it around, sometimes putting it away then looking at it fresh - I'll just know when it's time to be done. Some of it is an organic creative process. Different seasons, colors, what's going on in my life will all inspire a direction. But some of that time is also figuring out the mechanics of how to make the best quality object. (How to make a doll armature for example.)
Anyway - the Process vs. Product discussion got started for me a few years ago when a friend of mine noticed that artists seem to be split into one category or the other. The Product folks being people for whom the finish line is the goal and it seems the process is just something to be endured until they can hold up the work and say Done!
So which camp do you find yourself in?
Wow - that was a digression from what I meant to say tonight! I was just going to show you the colorful bunch of felt and thread I had waiting for me on my work table tonight. The Bugs and Fishes blog by Lupin has been sparking my nostalgia for felt bits. Her little critters - especially the owl - remind me of some I had as a kid. Plus, felt seems like something we work with when we're kids but tend to put away for more "grown up" media over the years. Time to bring it back! 
This little stitched up heart is my first felt project (since grade school).
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