ckcowl, as I was reading your thread I kept agreeing with what you said, then the quilt class gone wrong came up. Maybe this is a quilt you just have to say "no" too and say "what if..?" What if you make a different quilt with those beautiful fabrics? What if you make two or three smaller quilts? Look at this in a new way. Sewing with silk may mean you will learn a new quilting technique--google "sewing with silk" and lots of topics will be there to help you. Silk will need a cooler iron, so watch your iron setting.
Kudos to everyone who are making sense of their fabric collections, UFO's, WIP's. Knowing what you have will help along the way and getting those work surfaces cleaned off opens up all sorts of possibilities (as she slinks off into her messy sewing cave-just need to clear off that CW fabric pile up).
In our desire to clean up the UFO's, don't forget to start a couple of new ones, but keep in mind you do not want them to be UFO's and "get er done".