LovingIzabella

This is a great thread!
I used to wonder if I had someone else living in the sewing room with me as I would constantly hear things such as
"I'm over here"
"Don't forget about me"
"Do you remember what I look like"
I finally realized it was my UFO's begging for attention. It got worse when my WIPs decided to start chatting with the UFO's (then i thought I had mice because there was a constant scrambling!)
I have a lot of UFO's and probably just as many WIPs. My problem is I find a fabric I love and have to make something or a pattern that I just have to try....oh the bain of being a quilter lol
Hugs
April

Tiffany

Only 18!?! :shock: Holy smokes, I can't imagine getting my UFOs down to 18. I wasn't kidding when I said I had about 90 of them. As I go through them, there are some that I think will end up being a bit smaller than I had planned. I did a BOM about 16 years ago and let my sister borrow the patterns. She's never returned it and I can't seem to pry it from her, which tells me it's likely been lost over the years and she just doesn't have the courage to tell me. I've got four blocks done from that and I think it'll end up becoming a table runner instead of a lap quilt. There might be a few more I can cut down like that, but the majority are quilts I actually want to finish. :roll:

lots2do

"do i feel guilty about it? HECK NO!!! i used to until i remembered that i work hard enough on other things that i deserve to decide for myself when i'm ready to put aside the fun of piecing to actually finish something. i'll bet the same is true of you."

Patrice, I really appreciate your thoughts. I can beat myself up but it is true that I am a hard worker in the other aspects of my life and this is supposed to be the fun stuff...
Madquilter - I loved the image I came up with when reading about your warring supplies!
lots2do (but tonight I don't wanna)

Tiffany

ROFLMBO!!!!!!!!!!!

jljack

My problem UFO pile is finished tops folded on top of a box UNDER my quilting frame!!! They sit there forlornly, waiting to be pinned onto the frame to become a useful object. Additionally, my quilting DH also adds to the pile...we currently have 2 for me, 2 for him....4 quilts to be quilted, and he has 2 more nearly finished....6!!! I have too many projects to finish before Christmas to do anything about them...he's going to have to do his own!!! LOL He won't want to hear that, necessarily!!

I do have 2 UFOs in the sewing stage...one butterfly paper pieced quilt top that I started 2 years ago, and another table runner of maple leaf pattern.....both will have to wait for a time when I have NOTHING else to do!! (FAT CHANCE!!!!)

sandpat

Too funny! I can just imagine all these UFO's and WIP's getting together and trying to decide who gets to get done first.....Mine are laying in a pile on a chair and are all covered up with a towel, so the whimpering is at least muffled...so glad that hearing things bit means I'm not alone :roll:

I'm not sure what type of list is wanting to be created...are you wanting to make a list of your own UFO's and then challenge yourself to finish them...or are you wanting to make a list to swap them with someone else? I'm confused....and that isn't all that hard :wink:

brushandthimble

I was thinking our own list, challange ourselves to finish something. I do better when I READ the lists I make LOL.
I try to finish a WIP or UFO before starting something new, does not always work.
I have/had three to do for Christmas, finished one yesterday. Anyone see the Quilters World this past summer (do not remember which one) that had beach Buddies? It is a quilt on the back of a beach towel. I got the towels in Sept on sale, they are 6 feet long. My son is deployed to Iraq, his home base is Hawaii so what would be a better gift to my DIL and Grand-daughters than beach buddies?!

weezie

Oopsy! I misunderstood the "list" suggestion entirely. I was laboring under the delusion that we were talking about somehow swapping or donating our perceived "trash" UFOs that we were not interested in finishing -- to someone who might see them as "treasures" and who would then make them into FOs. Sorry. My bad!

patricej

a UFO swap? :shock:

not a good idea. at least not as an "official" and organized board activity. it would spin out of control and get so complicated so fast ... [hold on a sec. i'm havin' a dizzy spell just thinkin' about it. :!: ... deeeeeeeeeeeeep breaths .... ok ... i'm back.]

however, there isn't a reason in the world board buddies couldn't make arrangements privately to trade tasks to tag-team some of their projects. or swap whole projects among themselves. you wouldn't need board permission and could decide for yourselves how to work it out.

now ... lists .... hmmmmm ..... that's an individual choice. if you're brave enough to challenge yourself in writing and in front of thousands of witnesses ... go for it. (let us know how long took to get them all to agree which is a WIP, which a UFO, and to then settle all those arguments about who goes where on the list. Mad might need to send out cases of cabernet. :lol: :lol: )

i tried to make a complete list once. then i realized i'd have to actually clean up around here to get everything organized and inventoried. i was digging through drawers in every room, under the bed, diving into closets, haulin' out the little ladder. heck ... i have some stashed in the trunk of my car.

so what happened? my pad of paper and pencil got buried somewhere in all the piles. :|

i decided to look for it later because i got the urge to start something new using some fabrics i rediscovered during the search. :XD:

earthwalker

If there weren't UFO's or WIP's...there would be no reason to get up in the morning!