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I have more than i can count.
if i had to guess... somewhere between 15 to 25. |
Just one at a time for me so far; I've only been at this for 1 yr. I take over the living room while I'm working on a quilt and I just couldn't have more than one going at a time at this point.
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I am about 3/4 through FMQ a quilt, am doing 5 BOMs, have a quilt ready to bind, and am in the process of cutting out a quilt. I enjoy having several projects going at once. Oh, I just remembered that I have one more block on a Civil War quilt and then I can start putting it together.
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Originally Posted by x7lillies
(Post 5505341)
If I may, you might try strip chain stitching the rectangles (and the inner squares for that matter), a la log cabin construction. It goes so much faster, and you'll be making all the identical blocks at the same time.
Also, I also found the string quilt technique today and thought it'd be a great way to use up my scraps! I have only done about 20 of the string pieced blocks so far (ran out of skinny bits long enough to use) and I must say they do look nice! My non-scrappy brain is forcing me to make them monochromatic, which actually looks pretty cool. Alison |
Originally Posted by lynnie
(Post 5505353)
I have more than i can count.
if i had to guess... somewhere between 15 to 25.
Originally Posted by franc36
(Post 5505545)
I am about 3/4 through FMQ a quilt, am doing 5 BOMs, have a quilt ready to bind, and am in the process of cutting out a quilt. I enjoy having several projects going at once. Oh, I just remembered that I have one more block on a Civil War quilt and then I can start putting it together.
Alison |
Originally Posted by alisonquilts
(Post 5505208)
actively at any one time?
I have spent the last couple of months taming my backlog of scraps from the past 14 years of quilting (that's alotta scraps). I had postponed dealing with them because I am not really into scrappies, and because other, more interesting projects kept coming up. Then I saw a pattern in a book, and a technique on the Board, and I got all inspired to make a TON of blocks that (someday) I will turn into a quilt (or six). Now I have a scrap management framework, and I can deal with my scraps as I generate them. Yay for me! So today I decided to turn out the closet that holds my stash in order to find fabrics for my next regular quilt (the William-Morris-fabric bargello quilt that I have been eager to start for months...). I found tons and tons of great fabrics that will work well with each other and I also found...another giant tote box full of scraps!! Aargh!!! So now I will go back to cutting and "processing" scraps until I get the decks cleared again and can start my planned, non-scrappy quilt because I can only work on one project at a time! How about you? Alison AND I TOOK MY FIRST SPINNING LESSON SATURDAY--------------the alpaca fleece to yarn kind of spinning. I'm using a drop spindle. (like I need another bad habit!) |
I have about 6 - 8 "donater" lap tops, 3 queen size, 2 double, and one 1 (mystery quilt) carpenters star top to sandwich and quilt. Oh yes, and one baby quilt top. I have a single top sandwiched and basted in my hoop (which is about a quarter quilted), and a matching pillow sham.
I have a maple leaf quilt with 72 leaves cut out, and about 12 of them are hand appliqued onto squares, (of which 4 are embroidered). I have an apple core quilt that I have started to cut out. I have a queen size scrappy, that I designed (with 2" finished squares), and cut out, but have not yet started to sew them together. Not to mention the block of the month kit my sister gave me, with one block missing, that i will have to design and try to find fabric that will play well with the rest of the blocks (it is from 1994), but I have 11 of the blocks completed and sewn together. And to top it off, my fellow Senior Quilter Ladies and I visited a Quilt store a couple of days ago, that we have never been to before, where we saw a neat little bag. We tried to buy the pattern, but they said it wasn't for sale. We tried to buy the bag, but sadly, they said it was one of their class projects and not for sale. So I spent all morning putting this bag together. I showed the ladies, and they said it looked just like the one we saw. I am now making 6 of them for the rest of the ladies. yikes!! I didn't realize that I had so many on the go. Guess I better hunker down and finish some of these projects! I also just got a new sewing machine 2 weekends ago (which I have been playing with and getting to know), a house that needs a good cleaning, and I just purchased 3 new James Patterson books (I like to read). I wish the quilt fairies would come clean my house, and weed my garden............. siggghhhhh..... |
I usually have 1 big WIP and a couple of smaller things going on at a time. Seems like I get board with a the big one and it helps me to have something smaller to work for a change of pace.
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Too many but I can sort of justify the numbers...only 10 right now beyond just the planning stage...because some days and cut, some days I sew, somedays I iron, etc etc. I spend more time than I should looking at magazines and the internet as to what I should try next. I did just finish 2 tops but one of those I finished a long time ago but ripped it all out last week and did it more to my liking. Hopefully, I can have the patience to finish a couple of Christmas ones I have going. In the meantime, I found a great Halloween panel (silhouette witches) and can move forward again. Just no end!
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I have many more than a sane person should. Last year I worked on 12 BOMs. I have finished all but two and it is getting very hard for me to go back to them and they are almost finished! I will never do that many BOMs again! Right now I am actively working on two quilts at the same time because I am using the same color combo and they are both scrap quilts.
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