I always have several going at once and then one will rise to the top to be finished ASAP. There is also a pile of finished tops that are awaiting quilting, a backing or what ever. From time to time I whittle the projects down to 3 or 4 but then another wonderful quilt pattern just demands my time or a new baby is announced and so on. I want to leave a legacy for my family and it may just be unfinished quilts. Tee-Hee!

I don't think you are a true quilter if you don't! lol

Yes, right now I am buying materiasl for a quilt, have one set of blocks ready to put together, am also cutting and sewing on another set of BOM quilt, altering a queen size bedspread to fit a single bed. In the process of making a summer dress. It never gets boring for me.

Not counting the UFO's, I usually have 2 or 3 active projects going on at once.

This topic just tickled me so much. I just resumed quilting last year and so let me see. I have one quilt almost finished that I am quilting by hand. My motivation is that my cover blanket for my bed is getting very old and thin. So I want this done to replace it. I have 4 tops that I have finished and need to be sandwiched. This board is my addiction and consequently I join several swaps. But I have uncovered some quilts that I had started a long time ago. Actually squares that need to be pieced together. So My conclusion to all of this is that quilters are serious ADD challenged. We get bored working on the same thing for too long and our attention is off to the next item. The good thing about the swaps is that it keeps me focused to finish something because people depend on me. But when I get my swaps back........lol there they sit on my design board as I think about what to do with them.

Oh my yes, I am alwasy astounded that I actually finish something, I guess I must have senior ADD as I am always jumping from one project to another (or starting something new)

I just read the first 6 pages of responses and I don't know whether to run away from this thread of idiots or be glad that I'm apparently "normal for a quilter". Let's see, (1) On the USA quilt I made last year I just got the state badges put on the states where our boys' choir school has sung, (2) the (sort of) French braid for my neice and newphew is coming along (have to work on it to free my quilt wall), (3) the material for the lap robe for a teacher friend has just arrived and that needs to be done yesterday!, (4) Got the dragon that DGS designed for his quilt enlarged to 5' and the fabrics he chose are all pilled together waiting....), (5) the front of SIL's "African" quilt is all done but I told him he has to come up to get it (he likes to work holidays because it is extra pay) so it's on the back burner, and (6 and 7?) there are those two quilts sent back to me to try to repair the damage the new puppy did, and (8) is a landscape and another fixer because someone saw a witches face in it!

Like many quilters I find that often quilts have to perculate for a while before I can move on them again. One of my first quilts was a water color quilt that was done in 1" squares. I could only work on that one so much before I coudn't see it any more! It took my almost 3 years to complete and I did several other quilts during that time.

Are we all insane? Or are we devilishly clever?

Lets see, of my own...

1. at the binding stage. to be hand stitched down
2. a bona fide PIG (Project In Grocery sack) all the blocks are done and sashings cut and pieced border is 99% done
3. one that is awaiting borders
4. one that is mostly cut out and I have started piecing, this one I intent to give as a Christmas gift.
5. one that is from a block swap from here that I need to make more blocks for. Sadly it has entered into the realm of UFO from WIP. I haven't done anything with it in about 9 months.
6. A true UFO scrappy log cabin. I had run out of dark colored logs and needed more scraps. Every project I have some to add but I have yet to start working on the poor thing again.
7. A commissioned T-shirt quilt I have mostly cut out and interfacing fused to the cut out T-shirt blocks.
We won't bother to count the fabric in my stash that is set aside for specific projects with pattern all picked out or idea firmly implanted in my tiny skull.
I also won't count my leaders/enders quilts of which I have two quart size zip lock baggies full of completed HSTs.

Other peoples stuff... I have Barn bum's back to nature quilt on the rack right now and several other client quilts in line right behind it.

I figure I won't be getting back to any of my own piecing until around September. But that is fine by me. I seem to be a very cyclic creature my nature. I am firmly in longarm mode right now and quite content and happy to be there. Then I will cycle back to peicing mode for a while. It is just the way I am. Now if I could just hit the lotto so I could retire and quilt full time!

I always have several in various stages of completion.

Usually I do finish a particular stage of the process on any one project before going on to the next project, unless I hit a snag and need to set it aside for a bit till I figure out how to make it do what I want it to or find the right fabric to move forward.

Do have trouble with getting the final stages done though. Once the top is finished I'm usually ready to move on rather than go through the hassle of sandwiching and quilting. Guess I need to make myself tackle some of those UFOs!

I always do, when I get tired of one process, I'll go to another project for a while. Sometimes even just make a couple pillowcases or sumpin!