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rainbow quilter 10-08-2011 01:33 PM

I have one at the moment - the Poinsettia wall hanging that I started to learn how to FMQ.

I just finished two quilts and shipped them off to the LA quilter this morning. Ready to clean my sewing room, clean my machine, and start on the next quilt.

I do have a lot of fabric in my stash that I bought with a particular quilt in mind and either never started or decided that I didn't want to do. If you count that fabric as UFOs then there are too many to count. I figure that if I never started to cut and sew, it's stash, not a UFO. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

Eileen 10-08-2011 03:35 PM

I think that I have only 4 UFO's left to finish, but tons of PIGS (projects in grocery sacks).

MargeD 10-08-2011 03:52 PM

Well, I'd really rather not count them, or I would get depressed. Let's just say that I started working on some UFO's this week that were started at least 3 years ago and there are no doubt more that are older than that. I'm being so efficient on clear this matter that I started some table runners for a friend, cut the strips out, made the HST's and forgot which block I was making. lol I just turned 65, maybe I'm genetically pre-disposed to blow up then, as my brain is running in another dimension. I'll let everybody know when I do finish some UFO's. Happy Quilting, and who's counting anyway, it's like trying to find those missing socks that disappear in the laundry, where they go, nobody knows.

momto5 10-08-2011 04:37 PM

I've finished at least 2 projects that were 15-20 years in the making...so it IS possible! :D

hoppa 10-08-2011 04:57 PM

our guild has a ufo challenge every year but I still have at least 5 projects waiting to be finished and new ones with deadlines of December 1st

Bren 10-08-2011 05:03 PM

2 many 2 mention, let alone count! Seriously I don't want to go down that slippery guilty slope!

Ruby the Quilter 10-08-2011 05:04 PM

They seem to multiple - love it when I actually finish one.

Qwiltylady 10-08-2011 05:48 PM

I just moved and couldn't bring most of my stash but I brought 4 unfinished tops and 3 sets of blocks I couldn't bare to lose.

Jan in VA 10-08-2011 06:08 PM


Originally Posted by grandjan
Okay, here's a theory. Some things are not meant to be finished. They are part of the creative learning process, much like preliminary sketches of a painting. ................

Right!
Beethoven, DaVinci, Mozart, Dickens, Gaudi, Gilbert Stuart(portrait of Geo. Washington), all left work unfinished and nobody denies their genius!
Sometimes, even though your quilt isn't finished, you are finished with your quilt.:wink:

Jan in VA

Grammy-Gram 10-08-2011 06:20 PM

too many to mention, so I better get busy. LOL


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