Finished up a bag I was making for my sister. Am ready to start a new project. I have a stack of patterns in my to do pile. The problem is I have been going through them all morning and I just can't decide what to start on. How do you make those decisions? Guess it's going to be: eenie meenie for me.

I have the same problem.... LOL!!

I'm no help, yesterday I was going thru stuff and am in the same boat. :)

robin

Which one do you keep on picking up and which one is doable within the next month. But I hear your pain. I just started a new quilt after walkibng around with the fabric and pattern for weeks. It is a scrappy patriotic and I figured this is the time of year but I sur ehope that after the 4 th of July it does not end up in the work in progress pile till next year.

Let the fur babies decide. Lay it all out and which-ever one they plop themselves down on - do that! ;)

Now there you go!

Good idea about the fur babies - I am in the same boat - too many ideas.

Throw all the patterns in the air and whichever one comes down on top, right side up....do that one! I sometimes just walked around dazed because I don't know what to do next...but it's usually trying to decide whether to do the laundry, clean the kitchen or take a nap! :)

by the time I'm close to finishing a project, I start worrying/thinking/wondering about what next. Rarely is there nothing in line...

einnie meinne minnie mo ....... lol

depends on who needs a quilt next and what fabric I have available :-). Those two thoughts narrow the choices down quite a bit.

I don't ever seem to have this problem because I usually have 3 - 4 projects going at one time and when one gets finished, something else just seems to magically take its place. Looking at all the beautiful quilts here is my downfall.

This is the time of year I start thinking about my fall/holiday projects!

Throw all the patterns up the stairs. The one landing nearest the top is the next one to do. I had a professor in college who did that with the quizzes. The students who landed nearest the top steps got A's and the ones that failed to make it up the steps or past the first step got an F. No joke!

I was just in the same situation. then remembered I had some precut kaliedescope blocks, so I started sewing right away. No planning, no cutting! That was nice. Next time, I'll try having my furbaby decide for me.

Choose 2 of your favorite ones and start them both.

I'm generally not dilatory. If there are five or six patterns, just choose one and do a different one next time.

Eenie, Meenie, Miney, MO!

So funny- I love the cat idea! LOL

Aren't the members of this board creative in solving problems? I'm usually in th position of looking at a stack of UFO's, but if something else lights a fire under me, my near-sightnedness can usually make the UFO's disappear. :wink:

I am having the same problem. I sat in sewing room yesterday for almost an hour trying to decided when I finally chose a pair of pants for oldest daughter--bad choice. I stink at making clothes and should have stopped myself but I made a pair of jammie pants and well they are an epic fail but she loves them. Sizing of clothes--well I just dont' get it and she is so dang skinny so that makes it worse.

All that to say I will be doing something with quilting today and not clothes--maybe I will try to make a bag.

put the patterns in a bag, shut your eyes and grab :D

Put the patterns in a paper bag -shake it up -put hand in bag-pull out 1 pattern =this is the one to do :D Altho this probably won't work for choosing the right fabrics Batteries no included :

Give each quilt top a name and throw the names into a hat.

Lay them all out and close your eyes and grab one. :lol: :lol: :lol: Jan

There has to be one that you think about more than the others. Pick out your fav focus fabric and decide which would work best with it.

Are they all quilt patterns? Make a small eyeglass case or cosmetic bag to get you started. Something bright and fun for summer!

I always have this problem because there are too many that I want to do. But what's worse is that I have a hard time starting a new one because I can't decide.

A deadline usually helps though.

I am of no help either!! I usually just go through a mental checklist of the projects I have in process and pick stop on one that tickles my fancy. Then when I get sick of working on that one, I move on to another. LOL

That's probably why I have so many WIPs!!

Rachel

I had same problem last month and finally resolved it. I have several (okay 15 or 20) projects already in bags with fabric & pattern but couldn't decide which to start. Finally my daughter and her husband came home and asked why I was just staring in the cabinet. I said I couldn't decide which to do. They looked at me like I was crazy, reached in, grabbed a bag and said here. I finished that one last night and told her choose another. Apparently if you don't quilt the choice is much easier.

Vicky

What I like to do when I am in between projects is gather together the pattern and fabrics for a project and bundle them together like my own kit. Do up a few of these, then when you get stuck with no project planned grab a 'kit' and get to it :)

When I don't know what to do. I think about it untill I get inspired. That usually takes about a day or two. If I'm not really into it I have problems finishing it and I don't like a bunch of projects not done. Too much wast of time if I don't finish.

I have a list of all the projects I want to do and the quilting for other people. I start my list every January, as I finish things, I cross them off the list - very gratifying. also, as new things come in, it is added to the bottom of the list. Clients get preference of course, but every time I do something for someone else, I do something for me!

I send my DH into the sewing room to pick a bag and that's the one I do!
peace :D

Been fretting about this all day. Went to work for my 4 hr shift thinking it would help. Nope. Still dont know what to start. Do I choose a color first? A pattern from one of many 3 ring binders? A book I haven't sewn from yet? A prepackaged pattern in one of the bags from the LQS? An inspirational pic that's on the internet? Should I do something scrappy or theme quilt? Large? Small? Purse?

If only someone would say.."Oh I like this. Make this next!"

Maybe just get a long cold drink and start from there.

Sorry. No help from me.

Tell ya what. You help me and I'll help you. OK?

Ok made my decision. Have a pack of layer cakes. Newest book is twist and turn and a pattern uses layer cakes. Have backgroud fab to use with it. So I'm done.

Hopefully my success will rub off on you guys!

Good luck!

yay... good luck... and enjoy every moment !

sometime I have a certain fabric I want to use, So I get out that fabric. Measure. Then look at the patterns, and make sure you have enough of that fabric to use by the different patterns you have. pick out 2 or 3 patterns. go do something else for an hour or so. Go back , look at the patterns again. This time they may look different. Don't stress so much. If you can't deside today, wait untill tomorrow.