Deciding next project
03-28-2011, 05:30 PM
#51
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Location: Lebanon Missouri
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I get that Blank Look and you hear the wheels sitting in idle and I'm itching to stitch I grab a nice hot cup of tea go in sit in my swivel chair and see what jumps out at me and if its not a complete idea I just keep swiveling and I dont come out til I need food which happens to be my next favorite thing to do :-P :-P
03-28-2011, 05:50 PM
#54
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Location: Western Arizona
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Originally Posted by nycquilter
I'm not much help, I just listen to the project that "calls" me the loudest==
03-28-2011, 06:16 PM
#56
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I am going to be making a train play mat. I have been informed that his parents don't have room for a full sized quilt and they don't want me to spend my time on something they couldn't use. Yeah, that hurt a bit, but I still want to make something for my little guy. He loves trains and dogs and I found some great fabric with both. A dear friend helped me with the idea of a play mat. There will be a big train panel in the middle and a railroad track running around it so he can put his train on the 'track' and then a wide border. I'll make a train pillow too so he can be comfy while playing choo-choo.
03-28-2011, 06:41 PM
#57
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Sometimes projects "happen" to me - people get married, have babies, buy their first new home. These are not planned projects. I've also taken a few online classes so therefore the project was decided on the class (which was based on a technique I wanted to learn).
*MY* projects - I see something I like and I make it. Inspiration comes from everywhere, LQS, magazines, this board of course, nature, quilt shows, TV ... whatever. Like everyone else,
I've got patterns and fabric that I've not yet used but I'm confident that they'll all be paired up into a quilt some day.
*MY* projects - I see something I like and I make it. Inspiration comes from everywhere, LQS, magazines, this board of course, nature, quilt shows, TV ... whatever. Like everyone else,
I've got patterns and fabric that I've not yet used but I'm confident that they'll all be paired up into a quilt some day.
03-28-2011, 07:56 PM
#58
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Location: Cincinnati, Oh
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Originally Posted by Jan in VA
I sit down the night before and decide what I want to start, sometimes pull fabric for the project, and then go to bed.
The next day I get up, get online, spend hours doing nothing constructive, go out to eat, come home, read, design tomorrow's project, then go to bed.
The third day I do it all over again.
Beginning to realize, since the advent of QB in my life, I'm not a quilter, I'm a procrastinator. :?
Jan in VA
The next day I get up, get online, spend hours doing nothing constructive, go out to eat, come home, read, design tomorrow's project, then go to bed.
The third day I do it all over again.
Beginning to realize, since the advent of QB in my life, I'm not a quilter, I'm a procrastinator. :?
Jan in VA
03-28-2011, 08:57 PM
#59
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Oregon
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I usually have trouble deciding which to start next but last week I decided to clean out a drawer of cut squares someone blessed me with several years ago. Most are not cut accurately so I have been re-cutting them and am just going to sew all of them together in a pattern I saw somewhere. Then I can put all my templates in the empty drawer...well, at least it sounds like a good idea!
03-28-2011, 11:33 PM
#60
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Location: Australia
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Unfortunately I am the only one in this family of mine who quilts so I know if I don't finish anything it will never be done and I just couldn't bare the thought of all that wasted time, fabric and other items so I always finish what I have started before I start a new project. Well except for when it comes to those table runners, they often wait a little while. I think most of my problem comes from there not being enough time in the day to do everything I both need to and want to do :roll:
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