work on one quilt top at a time or do you have 2 or 3 quilts going at once? I like to have another one cut and ready to start but I have to finish sewing each one before I start on another top or it never gets done.

Only 2 or 3? How about more than that! I always have one I'm actively working on, one sitting on the shelf waiting for an inspired moment, a couple more with patterns and fabrics pulled, one that has been haunting me for years and years, one that just needs to be quilted, one that. . . . They eventually all get done, but I don't feel compelled to finish one before I start the next. When inspiration and motivation strike me, I'm ready!

I enjoy working on different projects as I go. I have 3 quilt tops I am working on plus many small projects and one king size quilt that I am tackling

I have heard that to be a true quilter you need one ready to be quilted, one in the process of being pieced, and one being planned. I seem to be an overachiever. There are more than that in my sewing corner. :)

I have one baby quilt that needs one row quilted and then to be bound.
I have one crib quilt cut out, partly sewn.
I have one queen size that is pieced EXCEPT for the last border of 12 inch blocks I have yet to cut and sew.
I have one queen size that is cut and partially sewn. Has to be finished by August to go to long arm quilter.
I have the fabric and pattern for 3 or 4 baby quilts planned but not cut yet.
I think WIP is just part of the quilting process.
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I have one I'm waiting on fabric to finish and I'm ready to start something new.

I've got one ready to quilt, one waiting to be layered, set of fabrics to cut for another, one being pieced - no more room to play with anymore.

Just finished one 4 more to go.

Have too many projects to count. Some are cut totally out, and found one the other day that I had forgotten about.........oh I am bad.

Sometimes I sort thru my projects just to see what I have going. I have one that just needs the border finished on it. I am hand quilting that one. Another one laying there beside it to hand quilt. A sampler quilt started with three blocks done, a few table runners for Christmas presents, which I know will get done. Picked up a row by row from my quilt group yesterday that we have only a month to work on be fore I exchange it for the next one and the list goes on. Marge

I usually have 2 or 3 at one time. they are in different stages.

Somedays I am "in the mood" to sit at my machine. Other days, I like to do applique or draft patterns. More often than not, I need to put projects aside for a few days, then return to them to figure them out.

Needlesstosay, I have many projects in various stages--I like to think of it as...inspirational creativity. How's that for a good excuse? :wink:

I tend to get bored if I just work on one at a time so I usually have several "in the works" and lots of others that I dream about, have patterns for, etc.

Wow I think I am the exception. I only do one project at a time, and I don't buy fabric until I am ready to do a quilt - I know I am not a typical quilter.

I try to finish one at a time but that doesn't always happen. Sometimes I get overly excited and start another before I'm finished.

I find that it is SOOOOOOOOOOO much fun to start a new project.....so, I start lots! :lol:

Oh yes, I really do finish most of them.....eventually.

Phyllis

Well ..... if we start counting UFO's (Un-Finished Objects) and PIGS (Projects In Grocery Sacks) .... that I AM going to get to. Then there are the ones that need just a little more attention. Okay if I did the count right, oh I am working on about 10 - 12 quilts. :oops: I won't count the ones that I have the fabric 'earmarked' for a certian project. :? AND I won't count the one that are in my head that are on the TO-DO list. :wink:

Here lately I have been having 1 top but a second one that need quilting.

I try to finish one project before I start another one. Am always planning and getting fabric, but once I cut it out, I try to finish before I move on to the next project...probably because mine are all projects with deadlines..the baby will be born, the birthday's coming up, or Christmas. I also know myself well enough to know that if I let too much accumulate I get too overwhelmed and don't do anything. I'm doing a BOM club here that is making me a little crazy. The minute I get home with the stuff for the new block, I make it and get it out of the way, but then I fret all month because that's all I can do until the next meeting.

I used to be an exception too. With so many kids at home and they keep me so busy I can only work on one project at a time. I don't buy but just enough to make the project plus a tad more for when I miscut (notice, that is not an if I mess up, but a when I mess up). I have no stash, though I did get a nice piece in the mail for my birthday.

I am, for the very first time, working on 2 projects at once. I have a top I'm making for my Army-stepson that just wen to Iraq. I'm also doing my first Mystery quilt. Since the pieces only come out once every 2 weeks, I have time to get them done and then too much time on my hands.

Suzy, you need a bigger stash. One to dig through, to dream about, to set aside projects, etc. Just take the plunge girl, we're there to support you!

I usually get the free WalMart quilt of the month pattern as soon as it hits the store so I have several quilts to piece but I still gotta finish piecing one before I start sewing another. I wish there was a site to view and print the pattern from WalMart because there are times when I go to pick up the pattern and they are out of them.

I typically have one quilt in progress at a time . . .but I always buy fabric as the mood strikes me and there may (or may not) be another quilt percolating in my tiny little mind.

Having a stash makes it easy to take a break between big projects to do a bag or a pillow or whatever; and I am generally a scrappy quilter so I can usually just pick through that stash. I may have to go buy a few yards of some sort of "hold-it-all-together" fabric.

I used to start all kinds of craft projects and leave them half-way through - when I started quilting I promised myself to see it through to the end every time. So far, so good :lol:

I might have several in the planning stage - I bought the fabric and I know what I want to do with it. But once I start on a particular quilt, I can't seem to start anything else until I finish it. I do all my own quilting so I really mean finished, right down to the binding. Unless, of course, it's turning out really ugly then I'll put it away for years until I change my mind about it. I guess it goes with my personality. If my points aren't exactly perfect I have to tear them out and redo them.