How Do You Schedule Your Projects?
#21
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My career requires deadlines. I don't tell anyone in family about projects not even DH. Don't want to make promises that can be altered when life gets in the way. So when I get a few minutes and I'm in the mood, I work on the mood project.
#22
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Hey, now! Whoever heard of scheduling a crafty project! I just walk past my fabric cabinet or sewing machine or work bench in the garage and something yells at me, "You want to get started on this right now!." Yesterday I finished 10 coffee cup on saucer pin cushions that just insisted it was their turn. Then I mended a comforter for my daughter; it had been lying on the ottoman in my den since December, crying for its turn. Now there is a community service project quilt top that's been lying on a table near my sewing machine, begging to be finished. But what I've got in mind is working on a quilt from fabric that's been nagging me for more than a year. That will be started from scratch. I probably ought to make a schedule, but how can that happen with so many things wanting my attention? LOL froggyintexas
#23
I tend to buy fabrics for my next quilt while I am piecing the current one. Then I have time to explore ideas. This also puts a little pressure on me to finish the current one in order to get to the next one.
#24
The only schedule I have is dictated by the non quilting events in my life.
If there is something in progress that is for a specific event, that project immediately becomes priority.
Other than that I may work on several projects in any given time period.
I'm trying to discipline myself to finish any project I start this year. I may work on something else intermittently while still working on the not yet completed project, but I'm not folding it up and putting it in the UFO pile!
If there is something in progress that is for a specific event, that project immediately becomes priority.
Other than that I may work on several projects in any given time period.
I'm trying to discipline myself to finish any project I start this year. I may work on something else intermittently while still working on the not yet completed project, but I'm not folding it up and putting it in the UFO pile!
#29
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I'm with the folks that don't schedule things. At least I try not to, but somehow I end up making mental commitments and getting myself all stressed out and "needing" to finish fourteen quilts by Christmas. (That's actually not an exaggeration at all; one year I made 18 lap quilts in 8 months, all for Christmas gifts)
So this year I've decided is my year of zero quilting deadlines. I work on what I want, when I want. So far that's meant I spent a lot of time "processing" scraps into pre-cuts, and cutting pieces out for about five different projects...that's just what I've felt like doing! I think I'm going to finish off a few UFO's soon too, I've been feeling interested in that part of the cabinet again lately.
My work life has gotten a lot more stressful lately (my partner quit so my workload went from being very heavy to being completely overwhelming) so I refuse to stress about my hobby! If I don't finish a single quilt this year that's going to be just fine - the point is to have fun and distract myself from stressful things.
So this year I've decided is my year of zero quilting deadlines. I work on what I want, when I want. So far that's meant I spent a lot of time "processing" scraps into pre-cuts, and cutting pieces out for about five different projects...that's just what I've felt like doing! I think I'm going to finish off a few UFO's soon too, I've been feeling interested in that part of the cabinet again lately.
My work life has gotten a lot more stressful lately (my partner quit so my workload went from being very heavy to being completely overwhelming) so I refuse to stress about my hobby! If I don't finish a single quilt this year that's going to be just fine - the point is to have fun and distract myself from stressful things.
#30
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I had not really thought about scheduling, but I realize that I do. A week day is usually housework and computer time done before 9:00 each morning. At 9:00 I head to the basement and work on customer quilts. 11:30 its back upstairs to fix lunch for hubby, sit down for the midtime news (while I work on a counter cross stitch project). 1:00 its back to the basement and customer quilts until 4:00. Upstairs for dinner prep, clean kitchen, news and cross stitch project. 7p.m. back downstairs to work on my projects until about 9 p.m. Of course, there are often interruptions with family, friends or watching wildlife! Life is great!
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