hee hee let's not go there!!! LOL I have too many to count!!! I suppose I will complete them sometime in my lifetime!

I have to agree with you... with so many WIPS and UFOS I like to pick one depending on my mood... sometimes I just want to do some hand stitching, so out comes my hand sewn hexagon quilt, or some binding... if I'm in a piecing mood, I take out the machine and turn on some tunes and sew my little heart out. If I feel like applique, then I take out one of my many BOMS too!!!

Cheers

Too funny!! Sawtooth Cats is in my to-do pile too! I have only picked out the fabrics and prepped them. Haven't started yet. Can't wait to see a picture of yours!!

FF

I just went to the sewing room and counted. If I didn't miss any, I now have ten (10) that are in various stages of the tops being completed. That does not include the ones that are in other places around the house waiting for backing, someone to quilt it, or someone to put the binding on. Do you think I like this quilting hobby?

Material MiMi

I find that, if I don't finish a project and jump to another, I lay a guilt trip on myself so I always try to finish up one project before starting another.

I basically stick to one project at a time within the piecing and quilting phases. Though while sewing that project, I'll be designing and shopping for the next one.

7 right now.

Uh-oh! I forgot about the pizza boxes.

I try to work on only one project at a time....but that doesn't mean that each project gets done before I start on the next. Some things are just destined to be WIPs! :oops:

I usually have one quilt being pieced and another on the frame at the same time. But wait! There's the scrap quilt in the process as more scraps become available and a Hawaiian applique' wall hanging being stitched. After that, there are the knitting, cross-stitching, and beading projects in various stages of completion. Either I'm a busy girl, or disorganized or easily bored....hmmm.

I'm right there with you :D .

I use to have one I was working on at a time, but if I got bored with it, it sat for weeks. Now, I have several in different stages. I may not feel like sewing on the machine but I feel like hand quilting while I'm watching the tube. Or looking through my books for the next one or planning on paper or cutting one out. It seems I bounce around between them daily. Some times I work on several that day and other times I spend time on just one. I also have one for road trips that I can piece in the car or on a plane. What I try not to do is buy material without a plan. I do the fat 1/4s but I don't buy large cuts with out something in mind. Some people start with material and find a pattern to use it in, I start with a pattern and buy fabric. I don't have the room for a large stash.

I think I have 5 quilts in progress right now..maybe more. Right now I'm working on Vintage Memories out of Mimi Deitriches Bed & Breakfast book. My cousin and I are both working on one. We're using Little Lulu's fabric with ecology cloth for the solid blocks..will post a pic as soon as we finish them. We bought the Accuquilt Studio cutter at MQX and it sure makes cutting multiples easy. I love it!!

I usually have two or three quilts in progress plus a new outfit for me and some charity work going. The project I work on at the time, depends on my mood, time available and confidence.

Sometimes I don't work on an UO because I'm not sure if: I like it, I'm doing it right, I'm not sure of the next step or shear boredom with the project at the time.

No more than two at once. Usually I only do one at a time, but if I get frustrated with one, I may start another to take a break from the frustration.

i have 3 going now one is a football quilt for my son that i am making up as i go so i take a break for a while to come up with the next border, i am also doing a bom and handquilting one i made earlier. i can handquilt while watching tv and spend time with fam at same time.

I usually have somewhere between 6 and 10 projects going at once. I think I'm over that right now though since I lost so many months of sewing over the last year between moving and the tax season from... well you know.

I have 2 waiting to be quilted (hand quilting)
I have 2 I'm currently hand-quilting (to be finished by the end of the month)
I have one IRR waiting (will buy the fabric this weekend)\
I have 2 started (quilt as you go), will be finished before Christmas.
I have 3 baby quilts waiting for the binding (on the back)
I have 1 Christmas quilt waiting for all the binding

I have 5 queen quilts (fabric bought, pattern picked out) waiting to be cut.

Then I have Christmas quilts to finish....haven't started yet, though.

I guess I have just a few...

I have a small box full of different quilt blocks that for the most part were left over from previous quilts. One day, I'll get ambitious and put them all together in a sampler quilt. I'm actively working on a string quilt in the Daylight and Shadows design. Besides that, I have a stack of 9 Patch blocks waiting for me to decide how to put them together. I musn't forget the 2 tops given to me that 2 different neighbors decided that they'd never complete. I bought the fabric needed to complete one of them, but that's as far as I got. I need to get to work on that one while my hands still work. I have this little problem with arthritis. There's another thing holding me back, besides the quilt I'm having too much fun with. I forgot where I put it when I cleaned the sewing room last time.

If I'm working with strips--they can hang out of the way on the wooden ladder, so I have room to work on at least two at a time. But, I'm working on one now, Kayak on the Lake, and it requires all these piles of triangles to be laid out so I can choose colors carefully. The piles are all over the ironing board and the one small table top. I was going to start another--but there's no room to fit more pieces anywhere. Rats! So--for the moment--one at a time, but that's not the norm.

Once school starts (teacher on summer break), my quilting time diminishes greatly, so to remember how to piece something, I'll often work on ragged flannels and one other more complicated project.

I love to make tops--and hate the rest--unless I'm handing it off to my quilter... but I'm proud to say there's only one unfinished project now. I finished the last binding on an unfinished piece tonight--finished the last three this week. :D :D

Congratulations on getting all your UFOs completed. The one you're actively working on is a WIP, not a UFO.

For now, I have two going at a time. One is my "full time" project--the one I'll finish first. The other is for something different when I get bored with the first. I expect some day I'll work on different kinds of quilts; i.e., bed quilts vs. art quilts. For now, I'm just making bed quilts for my family.

Thanks for straightening me out. Get those bed quilts done now while you can still handle something that large and heavy. Oh, you did indicate that you are having your tops professionally quilted.

I'm afraid that I tend to relate everything to my personal experiences. I quilt on the machine because of my arthritis and trembling quilting hand (caused by MS). For the same reasons, I can't handle a full size bed quilt. I make a lot of crib or lap size quilts and recently completed a twin bed size quilt using the Fun & Done method.

this is my style too...and I can count that high...I just don't want to, either :wink:

Thanks, Betty Ruth, that's good advice. I too have limitations, but so far, not with my hands. I do appreciate this kind of wisdom.

I think your method is wonderful, however, I can't stay with one project. Now I have 7 projects out and working. This is not counting my knitting and crocheting projects. When I have to stay on one project for a dead line I'm up and down like a jack-in-the-box. Even my family ribs me about staying on task.

I have 6 on at the moment 3 of which are now at the machine applique stage and a Round Robin that just needs its last border on and something special added. Two are going to be just when I have the time to pick them up and add another block or two.

i prefer to work this way, then I don´t get bored.

Elle

I'm glad I'm not the only one that has several projects going on at once. I thought maybe I suffered from adult ADD. :roll:

Looks like you and I are okay LOL

Elle

I'm just so happy that I'm not alone in this department, I love having so much company!

I used to be one of the "one at a time" kinda quilters, but my projects have gradually expanded. Currently, I have in progress: a throw for a friend for Christmas (top done); a small quilt that will be to cover the seat of a mission style rocker that's seen better days (needs quilted and bound); a flannel throw for my dh for Christmas (about halfway pieced) and a 1930s scrappy grandmother's flower garden wall quilt (binding now). Thinking about starting another queen-sized quilt for my bed - does thinking count? :lol:

I once read something from newsletter from Teresa at Homespun Hearth .. it really made me laugh, and then I decided to take this as mine, too. I don't know if this is exactly correctly written: "You can't die until all of your projects are completed - so you can be sure I always have TONS of projects in the works" or something like that is what she wrote. So, I live by that now, too -- I probably have 8 - 10 projects at any given time, all in different stages, that I work on! Now, at the rate I'm going, I'm going to live forever! :lol:

I started reading this post looked around my sewing room and lost count after 11. Glad I'm not the only one.
I keep telling my DH that there is a method to my madness. But, it isn't madness, it is just something I truly love to do.

If thinking counted, I'd be the queen of unfinished projects.

LOL....It depends on how urgent the quilt is....
I usually have few in progress....(sometimes its because I run out of fabric or something more urgent emerged....
Colors also matters and the "ease" in which it progress...Some are so easy to make and others just involved all the ripping and tears procss....
Hard question to answer :cry: