Hi Guys:
I decided to clean my sewing room and take inventory the other day! Bad idea...even if I like the more organize kaos that I created. I pulled out my tub that holds my "Works in Progress" projects.....I came to realize I make quilt TOPS, I don't always get them to the QUILT stage! :lol: :lol: So many patterns, so little time. Well, my WIP's number 21...those are only tops that need to be sandwiched and backed. I also have at least 5 dozen blocks I've made to test the pattern which could be made into "something." My challenge to you, count your WIP's and share with all of us your numbers. Maybe by actually counting how may things are sitting there will motive us (Me, for sure) to finish up some of them. :wink:

Good idea, Feathers. Hope your logic works to motivate me. :lol: :wink:

I have about 5 quilts that are cut and that is about it then I have 8 that are either pieced together or almost all pieced together, and I can't even count all the projects that are waiting to get started. The sad thing is I bought the material so long ago that I don't even remember what all the fabric is for. I hope I am able to get some of these numbers down and more quilts actually finished.

I have 6 WIP's, not many but only because I am fairly new.....give me a few years to catch up! :lol: :lol: :lol:

I have one top done, needs to be finished.
One I have been working on for about a year, but had to put away due to moving. That's the one that the stupid packer took out of the plastic and put pieces here, there and everywhere on me. UGH!
I have 1 that I am currently working on....a fat quarter quilt for a little girl and then will have another of the same pattern but different colors for the little girls' sister.
I think that's about it....
So, that's what? 4?

3

And I just started in April.

I don't think I can count that high ....:):)

I'm in Cathy's boat. :roll:

I know I have 3 quilts tops waiting to go on the frame to be quilted and 1 on the frame. 1 snowman one that is almost done, but who wants to work on snow in the spring. 2 in the drawing planning stage. Material and fabric picked out for 3 (at least). Plus other projects that aren't quilting.

Holly Cow Feathers!!! Im thinking you just might be the WIP Queen!
I have 2 tops waiting to be quilted, 1 set of placemats to be quilted, Now only 1 Ufo (since I got the bearpaw done last night) I have one in the planning stage As in on the cutting mat waiting to get started, Thats it! so I think I tally up 4.

I don't count having bought the fabric and the pattern as a WIP that is a PIW project in waiting :)

WIPs let see here
1) card trick quilt
2) scrappy double pinwheel blocks - just messed around one day and they turned out now I need 200 to finish the quilt
3) K-State rag time
4) Watermelon log cabin
5) Yellow Brick Road - just have to put it together
6) Kansas Troubles Binding

And this is just off the top of my head :P

Do I have to count the ones I have sorted with fabric together, but not cut yet? Just the ones I have cut and in varying stages of doneness, including tops finished and needing to be quilted I have 8. If I have to count the collected fabric, sorted and in the q, I have, well, more. :D

M

ok fess up time..

I have 1 I finished minutes ago.. it needs a back and then off to the quilter..

then 2 in progress.

another that just needs a binding.... 2 more coming back from the quilters that will need binding..

about 6 in bins waiting for me to get started..

not so bad .. if my family could leave for a week I could reduce alll my numbers!

Wow Feathers!! I did the same thing last week-mucked out my quilt room and pulled those WIPS out. I only have 4 large quilts to be finished, but like you have several blocks of things I have started and never got together. But I always have lots of stuff ready to go since I sell all my items. So I have about 5 table runners to back and quilt, plus the ones I'm putting together for a customer.
Lots of coaster sets and potholders that I cut out from my leftovers before the fabric goes in the scrap heap, and about 60 or so tater bags to finish putting together. Whew! I have farmers market starting the 31st so have lots to do!!!!!

I'd be embarrassed to say--I can tell you that hanging over my drying rack I have 2 quilts that are in rows, waiting to be put together for a top, 3 "test" blocks, and 16 yards of fabric hanging, just waiting to be cut.

I won't admit how much is on my sewing table, ironing board, design table, and...in my purse. I always keep some handpiecing in there for ....carpool line. Amazing what I get done waiting on my kids. :lol:
Julie

Oh thanks Julie, you had to remind me of the handpiecing stuff I have laying in the living room!!!

Wow!! I don't feel like the lone ranger after all!!! I have 4, one quillow that needs to be tied, 1 baby quilt that the top needs to be finished and then quilted, 1 for my granddaughter that I embroidered the blocks for now I just have to quilt and finish the edges and then a log cabin type. Out of all these only one is from 5(+) years ago. I am really excited after all these 4 I can start fresh. And it is such a good feeling to get them done and to the person I have been thinking about during the whole time I have been working on the quilt.

When I first started quilting I made a rule for myself that I couldn't start a new project until I'd finished the last one. That lasted for about 3 quilts! Here's my current list:

King-sized Irish Chain that I've been quilting FOREVER. Only about half done.

Sampler quilt that needs sashing strips and then to be put together and quilted

Kansas Troubles quilt I started hand quilting, but then had to switch to machine quilting because I couldn't get a needle through it to stitch in the ditch

Wall hanging for a friend's birthday that needs to be quilted

Log cabin I'm still piecing

And I won't even talk about all the quilts still in my head! So I guess that's five. And I really am trying to work on them, but my @*!$% job keeps getting in the way!

When I saw the subject line, I counted up 8 in my head, then when I started reading others comments I was like, "oh yeah, I have a pieced on I'm working on, and oh yeah, I've started one of those....." so maybe 11 or 12 (without looking!) I have to agree with mgshaw......Feathers.....you are the WIP Queen.......WIP it, WIP it Good!!!!!!! lol!

I'm just a newbie, so my numbers are relatively low. I say relatively, since it'll take me 10 times the normal amount of time since I'm a newbie :D

1 Broken Lone Star, Queen to King size, pieced and waiting on finding some elusive Timeless Treasures fabric to do a ribbon border. This is my big kahona, my very first quilt.
2 9 Patch & Stripe baby quilt tops done - I won't finish those for a while, don't want to kick in grandbaby Karma just yet :wink:
1 9 Patch & Stripe throw on the design wall, waiting for setting triangle fabric that should be in today or tomorrow
1 9 Patch & Stripe runner to match the throw, pieced but not quilted
1 morphed coffee table runner pieced but not quilted
(are we detecting a pattern here? LOL)
1 Card Trick runner pieced but (can you guess???) not quilted yet
1 Quarter Log Cabin throw (yes, pieced but not quilted yet)
1 Bits & Pieces throw in the piecing stage

Thank goodness Joann's has Warm & Natural 50% off this weekend - I *might* need to stock up on batting :lol:

Well if needing binding last minute stitches and things like that count, then I am wayover the top of too many. :D But I have two quilt tops to finish, working on the mystery quilt, have a baby quilt to make............ too much.

OK, guys, being the unofficial "Queen of WIP" I'll drop back in from time to time to see how ya all are doing on your WIPs. I know you'll all start finishing things right and left now that you know they need to be done. I've been blissfully sewing along working on this and that but never getting the projects finished and that is now my focus. FINISH! FINISH! FINISH! :lol: :wink:

1 binding has about 12" left to sew
1 all of the binding needs to be sewn
2 quilt tops (I-Spy) ready to go
3 more I-Spy's almost cut out but have all the fabric for
1 I was going to make a block (three D) quilt but couldn't figure out how to sew them together after i cut all the fabric.

So I guess I have 8 started one way or another

Wow I didn't realize that I had that much going on and i started in January

around here, we call "that" the "f-word". :shock: [i still need a fainting emoticon. :lol: )

i don't know how many - although i will jump at the opportunity to hail someone else as Queen. what a relief!!! :P

i only know i started this week with one less, then added one more.

sigh ..... :?

Woohooo, I just finished a large queen yesterday, washed and ready for bed. I just need to make pillow cases. BUT:
I have five BOM started
8 tops ( 16 went to my daughter a couple months ago, those were from last year)
Not to bad I guess.

I have:

1 queen quilt top to be quilted
1 baby quilt to be quilted
1 throw size to be quilted
butt ugly quilt to finish piecing
sunbonnet sue/crumb block quilt to be pieced and appliqued
flip flop quilt to be appliqued
niece's quilt to be put together (rows are done) and quilted

7- not too bad, I'm right up there with you guys. Now if you count the ones in my head that I'd like to do......

I also got a call from daughter in Japan- now wants a queen size one since their favorite quilt is the throw I made for their living room. She wants one for their bed. And she needs tie backs for Noah's curtains. Don't you just love it?

Barb

Feathers I have long lost count of the WIPS I have... I don't even know where to begin counting!! Just the quilt tops to be quilted will take up a page!!! LOL And I seem to keep adding to the pile of WIPS!!

I would be scared to even count! I have an antique quilt that I need to do somehting with, 20 blocks of the same pattern that need to be assmeble, 1 wall hnging and my porch swing cushion project and a quilt with the rest of those blocks. Then there are some flowers on muslin that I bought years ago on EBay and sunbonnet sue blocks--2 sets of them and 2 1 gallon bags of clown and nursery rhyme blocks that I was given--some have been painted some aren't just have the prinitng on them. I think that's all but not really sure and scared to even check to see if that is it!

I have one I am hand quilting, three to be sandwiched........two half finished piecing.......two to hide and they are taking a long ride. I have a pile of patterns with fabric that haven't been touched.

I have 5. The one I am working on now, plus 4 more that I have to sandwich and quilt. The ones I am planning to do before fall will really add to this number. I have finished one quilt a month since March and will have the one I am working on now done this weekend, I hope.

I'll say I have 4 WIPs.

I have got one BOM quilt that I started a few years ago. I made all the blocks, but didn't assemble them and sew them together to make the top.

That's a project I have to finish.

Then I have three quilts, two queen size and the purple lap quilt that I posted here a while back that are all quilted (by a pro) and need to have the binding sewn on them.

I have to say, my mom has been gracious enough to offer to do the binding, but she says I have to sew the binding on the sandwich part, then she'll hand stitch it down for me. I can't even seem to make myself do that.

Here's a quilt I designed and made two years ago, love the quilting, but hate the way it turned out, and haven't been motivated to really finishing it.

Ruth...I have to ask "two to hide and they are taking a long ride!" What do you mean? :idea: :?: It sounds like maybe you have 2 somethings you don't like and plan to take somewhere and dump...like to the Goodwill Store or Salvation Army!

Boy, Cordelia...I don't see anything wrong with either of these quilts. They are both gorgeous! Bless you mom for being willing to hand sew the binding. Wish I had someone willing to do that. My mom would be willing to sew it if she were able to but she's older, sick, has bad eyesight and just can't anymore. Thanks for sharing.

Well, you all make me feel like a tidy, controlled tight little old lady. I have a strict rule (not yet broken) to not start a new thing till last job completed. At present only have one project on hand and thats a celtic knot table runner. I have just got a new embroidery machine and am spending ages trying to understand the computer side. I think I can begin to see my way, but very slowly. Maybes when I get whizzing with it I will break my rule!!!
Jane

I used to think that way until I got the bright idea from this board that everybody works on multiple projects, so- why not? I did finish 1 baby quilt this week end. I think I want to finish up the ones I have started just to clean up a bit. I hate unfinished projects (but if you could see the files I have on my desk for policies- OMG it's a disaster). I think I need to adopt this attitude here.

Lol Feathers, I'd be scared to even start counting. I freely admit that I don't get to the quilting part very often. I know I have several block sets, then there's last years BOM for Grandson, New Year mystery quilt, 400 missing 4" squares, some where......6,7,8, oh my goodness, 4 table runners not completed in time for Christmas, hopefully by next christmas......9, 10, 11, 12, oh dear, Quilt for Sis, Quilt for other Sis. Lol, I'm going to stop counting now, while I can still say you're the WIP Queen :wink: , that's my story and I'm sticking to it :lol:

I have three quilts in the quilting stage. One needs to be cut and pieced. Several Christmas panels to work into tree skirts, aprons and such, and two afghans started that I am crocheting.

I only have 2. The sampler that is intimidating me and the baby quilt I am working on for my cousin's baby. I still can't do the WIP thing. It kills me to move on to something else when something isn't finished. Just a phobia I guess..lol

No too many, but now that I think about it, I don't know where some of them are. That is sad, isn't it?

I dont think it is an intentional thing, this wip thing, its more like we all suffer from QADD :lol: :lol: :lol:
(quilters attention deficit disorder)