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MadQuilter 04-25-2010 10:43 AM

From weeks to decades. That's why I have UFOs, WIPs, and PIGS.

Scissor Queen 04-25-2010 10:50 AM

I don't make simple patterns as a rule. I don't want to just crank out quilts for the sake of cranking them out. I usually work on 4 to 7 quilts at the same time. I'll have one or two in the cutting stage, and the rest in various piecing stages. Right now I have 6 in progress and I think I may need to start another twin size square in a square quilt. I have a niece in law that may be getting married and I think her intended has a young daughter.

Baby quilts are the only ones I generally work straight thru on. Nobody I have made a baby quilt for so far has known in advance if it's a boy or girl so I have to get them done quickly after the baby is born. I always make pinwheel quilts and just change the colors.

amma 04-25-2010 04:33 PM


Originally Posted by MadQuilter
From weeks to decades. That's why I have UFOs, WIPs, and PIGS.

LOL I have all of these catagories too!!!
I work on what suits my mood :D:D:D

brushandthimble 04-25-2010 04:44 PM

I work on multiple projects at a time, but can make a somewhat complicted quilt in a week or two if motivated. Then there are the ones that years later i will pull out to finish.
I have a mid-arm no computer stitch out. One, not interested at this time and second no $$ for one.

Scissor Queen 04-25-2010 04:44 PM

I have some quilts that have taken a whole year to piece because they were blocks of the month.

Mabel from Kansas 04-25-2010 04:57 PM

I guess I really am slow. I moved 14 years ago. A few months ago I found a box all nicely packed. Guess what, it was a quilt I had started before I moved and sort of forgot about. I am now sewing on it. I usually figure close to a year per quilt. But I am all hand pieced and hand quilted. I piece some on the machine that are for church projects, but for me or family it's hand. And I work on several at once. Right now am working on 5, not counting 2 that I am quilting.

littlehud 04-25-2010 08:09 PM

I only get a little time to sew. I usually take one of my days off for sewing. Therefore it takes me a little longer to do a quilt. That's OK for me cause I like watching it take shape.

Harmony 04-25-2010 08:15 PM

I usually try to do the piecing by all the way through until I'm done. It's the quilting part that takes forever. I hand quilt a lot of my quilts, machine quilt STID, or send them out (rarely, because it's expensive). I have many that have been waiting for awhile waiting to be quilted. And we won't even talk about all the quilts that are in my head, fighting to get out!

sharon b 04-25-2010 09:35 PM

I have multiply projects going all at the same time ! Definitely slows things down when it comes to finishing them :oops:

Oklahoma Suzie 04-26-2010 05:47 AM

When I first started to piece I did a block of the month. Then I challenged my sister to do a block each month. I bought her the same book that I had, so we could do the same block, or a different one. That was a real good way to challenge each other to do something different.


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