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Living over seas for the past 20 years where we have NO shops to buy fab/supplies, I would scour my "must make" markers in my stacks of mags and photo copy the pattern and fab requirements for ones I wanted to buy fab for on my up and coming trip to the U.S. I would buy fab to complete about 10 quilts, take clippings of each and pin it to the pattern copy (so I wouldn't confuse which fab goes with which pattern when I got home). Next, wash the fabs and place them (with the pattern copy noting which mag/pg# the pattern came from and place it in a giant zip-lock bag. I have now made everyone!
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I also NEVER start another one until the last stitch on the binding and label are sewn on the previous one! This came about after reading so many people complaining about their UFO's, it scared me that I would be the same! I now live back in the U.S, so time will tell if I remain so rigid with myself now that I have access to fabrics "on demand".
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Only 5? I have 4 in the making right now and have one that needs to be bound and at least 5 or 6 I want to make! Plus I have 4 panels I want to make into something. So much to do and so little time.
Two of the ones I am making now are for Twins due in December. |
Hmmm... you sound like a quilter to me. <G>
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My stepson told me once about an episode of Family Guy or The Simpsons or some cartoon in which one of the characters was easily (and often) distracted saying "Oooh look, something shiny". At the time he was helping me decide which used car to buy, and every time I went to the car lot, I'd see something else I wanted to test drive...
I admit to doing the same thing in crafting. It's the excitement of creativity that must release those endorphins. Every year at this time (mid-year), I try to stop new projects and finish several. But I haven't yet bought the same fabric twice. |
I now have stashed quilts (which are just the coordinating fabrics). I only hope when I finally do sit down and do the 9 or 10 that I have already planned at least the fabric for, that I don't run out of material. I do over buy for that reason though. GUILTY AS CHARGED! Welcome to quiltitus!
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OH you are so not alone, If I had the money to do it, I would have so much beautiful fabric. so I can't buy, but once a month I go to Joann's and drool on all the fabric I can't have. :-D God bless. Penny
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Originally Posted by raptureready
I think you'd be in more trouble if you didn't do that.
Can you imagine being so rigid that once it was on your list you had to do it in the order it came up???? Not me. I've got fabric that I bought 5 years ago for a quilt I was going to rush home and make. It's still waiting. |
Originally Posted by tcnmom
I wish I only had 5 projects waiting, no WIP or UFO's but then I wouldn't be normal. If I could stay away from LQS's and the internet, I could probably get some of them done.:)
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It seems my sewing list changes almost daily. My list is just in my head. I'm afraid if I actually wrote it out on paper it would traumitize me so, I wouldn't be able to do anything! :|
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