Bucket List Question
#11
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Carroll, Iowa
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I have a chart for everyone I want to make a quilt for plus any other quilt I want to make just because. Next to it I have their colors, likes and dislikes and even a pattern in mind for them. I also list whether I have the backing for it too. Then I write their names on a piece of paper, throw it in a basket and when I ready to make a new quilt I pull out a name and that's the next quilt I make. Everyone once in a while I might bump up a quilt or two but normally I go with the name pulling. So far my name hasn't come up so my beds do not have a quilt on them yet......
#13
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Twin Cities, MN
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I'm an "all of the above" person. When I renewed my quilting interest several years ago, I went all in, gung ho! I have the Farmer's Wives book, and several blocks started, but put on hold. I have the Beloved Baltimore book...way over my skill level! I have computer files of someday quilts. I have a file of patterns to do. I have several quilts kitted, just waiting to be done. I have tons of ideas rolling around in my brain bubbling to the surface. I have totes filled with fabric I had to have, because it spoke to me. I have 4 magazine holders filled with books and magazines with sticky notes flagging the quilts I want to make. I'll never get them all done! As I finish up on the quilt I'm working on, I start to think about what I want to do next, what my options are, and go from there.
#14
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
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I have a few things in my head - mostly to try something I haven't done before. I don't have much of a stash and I quilt for my own pleasure, so, one at a time as they interest me. I guess that is my bucket list, such that it is.
#15
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Posts: 1,079
I also do what luvstoquilt does. I have lots of pattern filled binders, lots of bookmarked ideas, lots of kits I have assembled with a pattern I want to do, a few store bought kits...
for those who want to know what PIGS are...Projects In Grocery Sacks. Brain Bunnies? Don't know. I have a guess...
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for those who want to know what PIGS are...Projects In Grocery Sacks. Brain Bunnies? Don't know. I have a guess...
Here are more:
Quilter's Dictionary & Acronyms ... a consolidation of previous posts
#17
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Join Date: Apr 2018
Location: Philomath, Oregon
Posts: 2,076
I’ve bought my stash fabrics in groups, a set of charms with enough coordinating fabric for a border or two, a jelly roll with coordinates, etc. of the fabrics I really liked, I got enough for more than one project. I guess I’m more fabric driven than pattern driven. Maybe that will change with time and experience.
#19
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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I have a file of "interesting quilts" that have caught my eye. Some I may make, some I may use just for a jumping off point. Every couple of months or so I go through the file and look at the pictures for inspiration, and if one doesn't catch my fancy at that time, I delete it.
As it is, I'll have to live to 387 years old to finish what I've already collected, LOL!
As it is, I'll have to live to 387 years old to finish what I've already collected, LOL!
#20
This is why my Pinterest boards are huge! I pin the things that catch my eye for the general pattern, specific pattern, color combo or general inspiration...when and if I ever run out of current projects (bwahahahah!)I have a huge 'inspiration book' to look at.
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