Please tell me it isn't just me!!!
#22
I am definately a starter! Finishing is the challenge. I also set a goal to finish 1 per month this year. I have 1 finished, with 5 needing binding. So way more work done this year than in my entire quilting career!
Board swaps sidetracked me this year...certainly not counting those as started projects!
I get bored working on the same thing...starts to feel like punishment after a while. And I feel the guilt of starting something new. So...I usually go with the better awful feeling and start something new.
Nope, same boat.
Board swaps sidetracked me this year...certainly not counting those as started projects!
I get bored working on the same thing...starts to feel like punishment after a while. And I feel the guilt of starting something new. So...I usually go with the better awful feeling and start something new.
Nope, same boat.
#23
I only have 3 rag quilts done this year .... And so hope I Start One, Finish One!!!! NOT like my knitting . Unfinished knit things everywhere, and very hard to go back and pick up where you left off ... The rhythm just isn't there any more
so, I am hoping, ONE quilt at a time!!!!
jody
so, I am hoping, ONE quilt at a time!!!!
jody
#24
I have lots of started projects. This year my goal was to finish some of them. I also know that I would want to start new projects so here was my plan: for every 2 UFO's I completed I could start a new project but I HAD to complete it and not put it away. So far so good. I am finishing some things and reward myself with something new I want to do. I think next year I will do 3 for 1. I may get more of the UFO's out of here. Many of them just need to be quilted or just a few blocks finished to get to the quilting.
#25
I like to jump around. I rarely ever finish a quilt without starting something else(not including the projects I've already started). I like to keep sewing fun. If I feel like finishing it...I do. If not, I let the top sit in a pile until I feel like quilting. Then, I go in a quilting frenzy and have to quilt as much as I can.
#27
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: N. Florida
Posts: 4,568
I only have one quilt project going at one time, but I may have a knitting project or a crocheting project going at the same time as a quilt. I do have a money constraint, I can only buy with cash and I have a time constraint, I work full-time. My current fabric budget is small so I can only buy fabric and batting for one quilt project at a time which is fine by me. My stash is growing slowly with the extra yardage I buy for each quilt, but it will be a while before I could even think about making a quilt from my stash.
#28
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2012
Posts: 903
As a brand new quilter, I am more interested in finishing something before I start another. As a knitter, however, I have a terrible time finishing anything. Now, in knitting, when I tire of a project or if it sits too long, I just unravel the whole thing and then have a whole new world of possibilities. Fabric, on the other hand - once you cut it..... I'm afraid this new hobby could get horribly expensive if I let my creative side get too far in front of me. I haven't done anything that any of you would call challenging yet, so nowhere to get "stuck" - just trying to work on cutting and seaming well.
#29
No, you aren't alone !!! I quilt with a quilting bee of 7 women and we all have our UFO's sitting on the shelf waiting to be done. I know that I have about 10 tops that need borders, 3 that need to be bound and about 8 that need to be finished. I am going away for a few months this winter and I have promised myself to finish 5 of the tops that are anywhere from 1/2 finished to 3/4 finished. The 10 tops sitting on the top of my book shelf will have to wait a bit to be quilted, I want to learn to FMQ them. I am constantly running into beautiful quilt tops at antique/flea markets and then after I repair them, they sit for awhile. It's my hobby and I dearly love this art of quilting, so I don't give or take any grief about it, I just love all of it. I live near casinos so I always figure instead of gambling and getting nothing for it, I quilt and get so much from it.
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