My deadlines are more like--leaving on a camping trip next week will prompt me to finish what I have promised the campers. Birthdays???can be late but not nice.

Last quilt I did for my grand daughter two weeks ago to take to preschool--now according to her "Lost in my room." Not much incentive there.

I try to finish each one as I go. anything left over will never get done.

Im a newbie and I want to make every pattern I see. lol. Sit back and think what pattern do I like the most. Pick a couple then do any minny minie moe catch a tiger by the toe. That would be fun and easy to pick one. Good luck.

My technique is really my DH's fault because he is such a wonderful enabler. So my technique is to do what I want to do and if I need new fabric for it, he takes me to get it. He tells me I have the rest of my life to finish the unfinished ones. Right now I am working on a small wall hanging for Mom's birthday in August. When I mention the large quilts waiting to be finished, My DH says to wait until winter because I seem happier doing the big stuff then when it's not so hot. His way works for me. :) :) :)

Here's a great solution ... write it down! When my mind goes bonkers from thinking of too many projects, I write it down in my quilting journal. That way, when the time comes to work on a new project, I'll go through the list of things I wrote down and then I can decide. If it's not written down, then it must have been a passing thought and not important enough to take into consideration. Also, I have a ba-zillion quilting books and magazines. I tape a note on the cover as to which one(s) I like so I don't have to page through the entire book or magazine again.

I have 12 projects written down! OMW!! I had no idea that I had accumulated so many projects.... I just cant ever pass anything up when I see something I like. I better stop looking and start some sewing!! This doesnt include the WIP and BOM I have going, or the Hand Quilting... I have some work to do!

For me, if it's a "for fun" quilt project, I'd write down several projects or patterns I want to try, put them in a hat and pick one!

If it's a gift, I do them in the order that I need to give them.

When I can't decide what project to do first, I just START one-any one. I find that I feel better after I start a project- I think just making a decision makes a difference! :D

I'm the wrong one to give advice on this..as I'm always doing 2 or 3 at a time..I never get bored that way..I have one on the board..one on the machine and designing one on graph paper..lol..what do I know..lol..!!

When I can't decide which to start on next, I work on blocks for a scrappy quilt. Just a mish-mosh of random fabrics done on hideous foundation fabrics. (The kind I have bought then later wondered "what was I thinking?") This has been going on for almost a decade. I can now put together a quilt the size of Oregon. Someday I will figure myself out.