To avoid the awful feeling of what should I do, I lay out the next days work-sewing- before closing the door. It helps me to get moving.

I made a New Years resolution to finish all my UFO's this year. To not by anything new till I have accomplished that task. I have finished a few UFO's & then a shop hop came upon me & I did buy alittle bit. Although, I don't count having to buy new fabric to finish those UFO's. I still have a pile of UFO's about a foot tall to finish. I guess that I just may go into withdrawls. If the fabric comes from someone else, does that make it new? LOL.

You'll make it!! We'll all encourage you along the way. A few years ago I did that after finding so many in my closet. There are still a couple only because I have them at a point where I don't know what I want to do. Absolutely not new if it comes from someone else!

Well I am in a bit of a slump myself so am keen to read the answers to this question also.

It isn't that I don't have anything to do cause there is plenty - need to finish up the IRR border (almost done), need to make some blocks for the next swap (wont take long), have a house warming quilt gift to complete (why did I choose a black background when I hate working with black?), 2 table runners to complete and 2 charity quilts to complete but I seem to have lost the excitement. Not even the thought of starting something new is exciting me at the moment.

Maybe1day :cry:

I usually alternate between intense quilts that take time and real concentration/thinking to get it "right" and quicker ones that seem to almost make themselves, usually strip pieced easy ones. I hate the quilting part so I just make tops.

[Beginning to realize, since the advent of QB in my life, I'm not a quilter, I'm a procrastinator. :?

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I dodn't do that right. Me too.

I very much like your idea of a notebook with plastic sleeves with my next idea, and moving the pages forward and backward. Do you mind if I use that idea?

Haha they are decided for me. Somebody (usually DD) just NEEDS to have it. Love her lots.

I never have a problem deciding what to start next - the problem I have is finishing the many projects that have been started. It is too much fun to start something, see how the blocks will look, etc. then find something else that catches my interest. Someday - the UFOs will be a priority! HaHa!

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

I usually go thru my stash to see if there is something that starts the juices flowing...There is always something that gets me "going"

I love starting new projects. I am always thinking about what I am going to do next while I'm working on the current one. Not enough time in the day for me!

I keep going through patterns (& I do have tons of patterns mostly from the internet) til one reaches out & grabs me. If that doesn't work, I just walk away for the time being.

So how much money do you spend on quilting services?

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.

What online classes do you take? I took the one from Missouri Star Quilt Company I really enjoyed it

This is hilarious!! I think there are a lot of us who walk in your foot steps and do the same thing. I will sometimes just go into my little room and just look at the pretty fabric! :-)

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!

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:

Maybe1day

I am going to start collecting novelty fabric for an "I Spy Quilt"
for my DGS. So, I am excited for that, he is two, and also will
be going into a big bed soon, I think he would love it.

I'm always behind so always have some with deadlines and start there.

Usually, I just grab a pattern, fabric and have at it. Sometimes it's a color or a style of quilt that motivates me. Sometimes one of my quilting buddies makes a suggestion. Since I generally work on more than one quilt at a time I always have one going.