"PROJECT INCOMPLETE"
10-25-2011, 04:57 AM
#51
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: northern ontario
Posts: 3,648
guilty
:oops:
Originally Posted by MissJMac
"Project Incomplete", that's what I call it anyway.
I see a quilt on the QB, at Mo Star Quilt, or any of the countless internet sites we visit daily and know I just have to make it NOW!! I get the instructions, start pulling fabric and begin cutting and sewing. Beautiful, I'm so proud of myself, everything's going great.
I've earned a break, think I'll fix a cup of tea and visit the ladies of the "Quilting Board". Wow!! fantastic discussions, beautiful pictures, new tips, links, and evem the recipes.
Geez, that makes my sewing room look reallly sad, I've got to make that quilt Jenny made at MO Star, that Bargello looks like something I could handle.
I start duplicating Jenny's quilt cause she made it look soooo... easy. I can't stop thinking about that Bargello, so I start pulling from the stash again. By now the unfinished quilts are starting to back up and on and on and on and on....
Having exposed my shortcomings here, I was just wondering if I'm the only one suffering from this malady or are there others who get so excited when they see something new they just have to start it right now.
If you're not guilty, then how do you explain your stash of unfinished tops?? LOL
I see a quilt on the QB, at Mo Star Quilt, or any of the countless internet sites we visit daily and know I just have to make it NOW!! I get the instructions, start pulling fabric and begin cutting and sewing. Beautiful, I'm so proud of myself, everything's going great.
I've earned a break, think I'll fix a cup of tea and visit the ladies of the "Quilting Board". Wow!! fantastic discussions, beautiful pictures, new tips, links, and evem the recipes.
Geez, that makes my sewing room look reallly sad, I've got to make that quilt Jenny made at MO Star, that Bargello looks like something I could handle.
I start duplicating Jenny's quilt cause she made it look soooo... easy. I can't stop thinking about that Bargello, so I start pulling from the stash again. By now the unfinished quilts are starting to back up and on and on and on and on....
Having exposed my shortcomings here, I was just wondering if I'm the only one suffering from this malady or are there others who get so excited when they see something new they just have to start it right now.
If you're not guilty, then how do you explain your stash of unfinished tops?? LOL
10-25-2011, 04:57 AM
#52
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Southern California
Posts: 927
me too!
Originally Posted by Newby0709
GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!!!!
I lay awake at night thinking about the next project or finishing the one I started. I would be more productive if I just got up and worked on a project instead of checking the QB.
I lay awake at night thinking about the next project or finishing the one I started. I would be more productive if I just got up and worked on a project instead of checking the QB.
10-25-2011, 05:12 AM
#54
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Ohio, the land of 4 seasons. sometimes all in the same week!
Posts: 2,487
Originally Posted by Newby0709
GUILTY AS CHARGED!!!!!!
I lay awake at night thinking about the next project or finishing the one I started. I would be more productive if I just got up and worked on a project instead of checking the QB.
I lay awake at night thinking about the next project or finishing the one I started. I would be more productive if I just got up and worked on a project instead of checking the QB.
10-25-2011, 05:14 AM
#55
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Oroville, CA
Posts: 105
I'm so guilty of this also, but here goes another...I know what a rag quilt is, but what is a biscuit rag quilt?
Originally Posted by LindaM49
Another guilty one here...but I am like that with everything...LOL.
The Christmas wallhanging is on the back burner so I can make this bag for my son's girlfriend for Christmas. Other projects that I had planned to make are still in the shopping bags. The biscuit/rag quilt is still on the dining room table waiting for me to finish clipping the seams. And now I want to make a table runner or a tabletop and was thinking I would buy everything this week. BUT...I am trying to control myself to wait. Oh and in a magazine that I bought a few days ago I saw a neat dresden plate quilt pattern...but again must try to restrain myself. And I really don't want to.
Since I live in PA and we can have snowy, icy winters I tell my husband I MUST have all of this fabric etc. so I have things to keep me busy when the roads are bad. I don't think he believes me. LOL
The Christmas wallhanging is on the back burner so I can make this bag for my son's girlfriend for Christmas. Other projects that I had planned to make are still in the shopping bags. The biscuit/rag quilt is still on the dining room table waiting for me to finish clipping the seams. And now I want to make a table runner or a tabletop and was thinking I would buy everything this week. BUT...I am trying to control myself to wait. Oh and in a magazine that I bought a few days ago I saw a neat dresden plate quilt pattern...but again must try to restrain myself. And I really don't want to.
Since I live in PA and we can have snowy, icy winters I tell my husband I MUST have all of this fabric etc. so I have things to keep me busy when the roads are bad. I don't think he believes me. LOL
10-25-2011, 05:39 AM
#56
Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Lenoir, North Carolina
Posts: 35
I used to have that problem and I have 20+ projects that were started because I saw a TV program or an article in a magazine that I just had to start right then. Before I could finish someone would ask me to make them a quilt and I would put my project in a bag or box and never get back to it.
My solution to the problem was I started a project book. When I come across some project I really like instead of grabing fabric and start cutting, I grab my pens and my book and I draw the block or quilt idea, I include any fabric ideas and my thoughts about how I would like to see this quilt done. If I have pics or instuctions or fabric swatches I include those too. This satisfies my creative excitement about the project for the short term and it gives me a great resource to turn to when I someone wants me to make them a quilt.
I also took all of my unfinished projects out of their bags and boxes, made sure all the fabic and instructions were with each project and placed them in individual clear plactic sweater boxes and placed them on a shelving unit that I can see when I walk into my sewing room. So now when someone asks me for a quilt I go to my unfinished projects first to see if I have a project that would fit what they want.
My solution to the problem was I started a project book. When I come across some project I really like instead of grabing fabric and start cutting, I grab my pens and my book and I draw the block or quilt idea, I include any fabric ideas and my thoughts about how I would like to see this quilt done. If I have pics or instuctions or fabric swatches I include those too. This satisfies my creative excitement about the project for the short term and it gives me a great resource to turn to when I someone wants me to make them a quilt.
I also took all of my unfinished projects out of their bags and boxes, made sure all the fabic and instructions were with each project and placed them in individual clear plactic sweater boxes and placed them on a shelving unit that I can see when I walk into my sewing room. So now when someone asks me for a quilt I go to my unfinished projects first to see if I have a project that would fit what they want.
