Prism99 has a good point; the timer works for those projects that just don't seem to excite me. I'm currently working on a log cabin myself, I love a scrap anything, but a log cabin, draws me, like a cleanser between other projects, so I do those more than any other pattern....I started working 'a block' at a time, that was very tedious to me, as it's a 'planned' srappy... so now I'm doing a round at a time, and I've found that it really helps to get how ever many finished blocks you have up on the design wall so you can see your progress, it started moving along after that. Or, there's always the option of just not finishing it,; I've send a couple quilts to the second hand store like that before, when it just became too much of a chore to work on them... Good luck.