Since I am moving in a month, my home is pretty torn up. Half-packed boxes, donation piles, and just general stuff everywhere.
So I am trying to decide, what project would be best suited to work on while in this mess and decided to dig out my hexie UFO. Portable, no machine needed.

My question is, what do you like to work on to keep sane when things go topsy-turvy??

I'm likely to knit in this type of situation...something easy like hats that I can stash in a little bag and easily keep up with. I love your hexie quilt!! I haven't gotten past squares :) and I'm not confident about handpiecing!

Wasn't aware there was such a thing as a chaos proof project!

Hand embroidery. I have pillowcase sets, dishtowel sets in my stash plus I have scraps for crazy quilt motifs going as my forever project. I used to make yo-yos but burned out doing those.

Ditto. :)

But I do work on my GFG

Currently, I knit washcloths out of pretty varigated yarn.

I crochet.

i usually work on a bowl of ice cream :lol: :lol:

Brilliant idea! :mrgreen:

Yo-Yos - great! Why didn't I think of that. Haven't done them for ages, so no burn-out problem here.

So quite a few of you are cheating with crafty things other than knitting! Me, too. Been knitting quite few socks recently.

Common thing seems to be small and hand work.

I usually crochet scarfs for my daughter, but also have a hand quilting project I keep in a sewing basket that is always ready.

Another sock knitter here--generally just brainless stockinette (I use pretty yarn to keep it interesting). Most of my socks need to be washed right off the needles, because they go to work with me and I work in a very grubby, dusty environment.

No kind of sewing is chaos-proof for me. Needles and thimbles are too easily lost, and it requires a certain amount of "settling" when I go to work on it. It's hard for me to pick up and put down in odd moments the way I can with knitting.

I like your attitude. I too like to work on a bowl of ice cream. :thumbup:

What is a GFG?

That's what I'm doing-except crochet.

grandmother's flower garden

The best suggestion yet. I"m with you there.

sassy granny

I do the hand-sewing part of quilt bindings.

True confession: I'm a big procrastinator. I always seem to have a quilt or two lying around that is complete except for the hand-sewn side of the binding.

Thank you

My kind of lady! Gotta have ice cream any time of year and chocolate!

You're funny...can I join you?

Grandmother's Flower Garden

I try to keep a piece of hand work ready to carry wherever I go or have a few minutes to just sit. That is a wonderful on to work on.

Crochet or embrodery works for me.

Me, too - have done them for years and they are always in need for one thing or other. Crochet.

Think SparkMonkey and I are clones of each other. Maybe I'm not as strange as I think I am.
Small doable projects, mostly handwork, applique, knitting socks and they need to be useful.

I used to cross stitch, make doilies from crochet but now I'm working on a hand stitched hexagon quilt. I've been working on it for 2 years. I'm taking a class now with Mimi Dietrich to learn applique. I'll always have something to carry along no matter where I'm going or what I'm doing. I love it!

I either crochet or embroider quilt blocks for a future quilt. Jack Dempsey company has lots of them to embroider.

Sometimes I hand quilt table runners and place mats, or crochet wash cloths, a project with a short work time, and a usable finished piece. Seems to settle me, somehow. piecefully, the old one

I always have a bag of hexies going, but must admit, if the "chaos" gets TOO bad, I'd go for the bowl of ice cream idea!!

Your plan to work on the GFG is good and it looks like it will be gorgeous!!

I crochet or cross-stitch.

hand smocking for little girls' dresses

How about chocolate and had hand embroidery; dish towels.

Hand embroidery work for me ... but with chocolates!
Should quilting by hand ... LOL!

I relate to the bowl of ice cream. When things are topsy turvy for me to have a quilting project going on makes things worse. I just have to put everything away and focus on things besides quilting.

I like this one!

That's about how old my hexie project is. Just like a good wine...

I always wanted to try smocking. It looks just so very beautiful. There is a great blog by a lady who hand dyes fabrics and then smocks or pleats them to make jewelry:

http://tinctory.blogspot.com/

Need to learn in a quite moment, though.