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#11
My deadlines are more like--leaving on a camping trip next week will prompt me to finish what I have promised the campers. Birthdays???can be late but not nice.
Last quilt I did for my grand daughter two weeks ago to take to preschool--now according to her "Lost in my room." Not much incentive there.
I try to finish each one as I go. anything left over will never get done.
Last quilt I did for my grand daughter two weeks ago to take to preschool--now according to her "Lost in my room." Not much incentive there.
I try to finish each one as I go. anything left over will never get done.
#12
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Join Date: Dec 2010
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Im a newbie and I want to make every pattern I see. lol. Sit back and think what pattern do I like the most. Pick a couple then do any minny minie moe catch a tiger by the toe. That would be fun and easy to pick one. Good luck.
#13
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Location: Florida
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My technique is really my DH's fault because he is such a wonderful enabler. So my technique is to do what I want to do and if I need new fabric for it, he takes me to get it. He tells me I have the rest of my life to finish the unfinished ones. Right now I am working on a small wall hanging for Mom's birthday in August. When I mention the large quilts waiting to be finished, My DH says to wait until winter because I seem happier doing the big stuff then when it's not so hot. His way works for me. :) :) :)
#14
Here's a great solution ... write it down! When my mind goes bonkers from thinking of too many projects, I write it down in my quilting journal. That way, when the time comes to work on a new project, I'll go through the list of things I wrote down and then I can decide. If it's not written down, then it must have been a passing thought and not important enough to take into consideration. Also, I have a ba-zillion quilting books and magazines. I tape a note on the cover as to which one(s) I like so I don't have to page through the entire book or magazine again.
#15
I have 12 projects written down! OMW!! I had no idea that I had accumulated so many projects.... I just cant ever pass anything up when I see something I like. I better stop looking and start some sewing!! This doesnt include the WIP and BOM I have going, or the Hand Quilting... I have some work to do!
#16
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Join Date: Mar 2011
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Originally Posted by MellieKQuilter
I have a mental block! I have all sorts of fabric and all sorts of patterns and ideas, I just cant "pick" what to do!! How odd is that! I feel like I cant make something that I just bought fabric to do when I have older projects that I havent started yet but have the fabric for... so I end up doing nothing! (well, I have a handquilting WIP and a quilt top WIP, so I am doing something, but I just really want to get started on the next project).
So... my question is, how do you pick what to do next??
So... my question is, how do you pick what to do next??
If it's a gift, I do them in the order that I need to give them.
#18
I'm the wrong one to give advice on this..as I'm always doing 2 or 3 at a time..I never get bored that way..I have one on the board..one on the machine and designing one on graph paper..lol..what do I know..lol..!!
#19
When I can't decide which to start on next, I work on blocks for a scrappy quilt. Just a mish-mosh of random fabrics done on hideous foundation fabrics. (The kind I have bought then later wondered "what was I thinking?") This has been going on for almost a decade. I can now put together a quilt the size of Oregon. Someday I will figure myself out.
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