Originally Posted by Flying_V_Goddess
Does it matter if you’ve been a quilter for years and don’t have a lot of finished projects to show for it? There are people on here who probably have dozens of projects completed and are always showing new stuff. I made my first quilt at the end of ‘06. So far I’ve only made three quilts (and one is not completely finished yet), a bunch of test blocks with horrendous fabric, and a few smaller projects. I certainly have enough ideas to get me going for a while, but it seems like I can never find the time to sit down and do them. Planning is easy because I can do that on paper or my laptop and I can take those anywhere. Getting it beyond that seems to be the hard part. And money is tight, too, so I can't always get things for projects. Like when I go into a quilt shop (which is not too often) I spend like $20 and I'm calculating every penny to make sure I don't go overboard. Some quilters have spent hundreds without much thought to it and have enough fabric to get all their projects done and then some.
I don't know...I'm just not feeling like much of a quilter right now.
I can really relate. I have been quilting much longer than you, about 25 years) and I have only "completed" probably 10 quilts, and several of those are wall hanging size. I have lots of UFO's. My husband and I retired 3 years ago, right before the economic crash, which had we known what was coming, we never would have. So, while working, I had the money, but not the time for quilting, now I have the time, but no money, very frustrating. I have never been able to spend hundreds of dollars at a time on quilting, so I often will buy fat quarters to get my "fix". The problem with that is usually even with a scrappy looking quilt, you still need at least one fabric of several yards worth, in each quilt, and I don't have those large cuts of fabric in my stash, and those are the ones that cost alot.