Originally Posted by mpeters1200
Originally Posted by TX_Cutie
I feel like the loan outsider here because I don't have any. I tend to be very methodic (some might call it anal retentive :oops: ) and finish each project after I start it. But I love to buy fabric and patterns with the intention of making something. If we're counting patterns or saved web links to patterns, then I'm well over 20.
The closest thing I've got to a UFO is a ball of yarn attached to some knitting needles. I bought them thinking that I'd teach myself to knit and did indeed practice a few rows of stitches. Now it's just bundled together in a bag on my shelf. I could never figure out how to purl. :evil:
Well TX, you and I must be kindred spirits. I never finished anything I started until I started quilting. I would get interested and inspired, realized I stunk at it, then give up. Piano, crocheting, plastic mesh cross stitch, cross stitch, scrapbooking, painting ceramics...lots of stuff.
I liked my first, and only, quilting class so much I knew this was what I wanted to do. I have 3 wips that I just finished the tops and they'll be ready for my kids to unwrap at Christmas. I'm sewing on the binding of my first quilt for commission. I have one UFO. It didn't start that way, but now it's turned into a QFH (quilt from he**). If I can keep cranking quilts out and know I only have one UFO, I'll be good. Once I have the 3 tops into quilts, I'll be ready to start my next project.
I don't have spare fabric. Never spare room or spare money. I usually buy all the fabric I need for the top, then pick a backing when it's done. But I do have a collection of patterns and potential quilts in my internet bookmarks and my head.
Guess that makes us triplets. I think my "need" to not have UFO goes back to my many years of knitting. If I left a knitting project unfished, I would either have to rip a row or two, or I would end up with a line in the garment from where it sat too long on the needles. So...habit? more "Monkness"? I dont' know, but I do know that I also dont' have the room to have too much on the go...my sewing room is not much more than an oversized closet. Right now, I have on the go, a lap quilt that is completed but for the last of the handquilting, so that gets worked on in front of the tube, a king size quilt, top done and ready to sandwich, (it will come to work with me this week so I can use the table in our boardroom), and lastly, I am working on 3 C'mas runners....1 done, two ready to quilt. They are going to Canada, so I have to get them done and in the mail soon. Lots of projects in my head, so I will never be short of what to do next. Hmmm...maybe it will be "my" turn soon. About 3 -4 years ago, I bought the fabric to make a quilt and matching curtains for our BR. It is still waiting. :(