Will we live long enough to make all the patterns and use up all our fabric??? I hope not :wink: :wink: :wink:

I can totally identify with you, at first I was printing off a lot of free patterns and putting them in my binder so I'd be organized but then I started using up WAY too much printer ink and my binder is full and I'm still a beginner so I'm not producing anywhere near as many as my brain wants to!

:shock: And did you put the in the binder in alphabetical order too? If you did...you have been in my head :!: :lol:

Does anyone use Delicious to tag the bookmarks you want to save? I've been going crazy adding to my Delicious list since I joined this board only two months ago!!!

iowabelle, I recently have gone through my huge stack of quilting magazines and have torn out only those quilts or ideas I want to save. I have recycled all that was left. It's really cut down on what I need to store. I am planning to organize the materials I've saved in file folders or in binders. Declutter and organize!

Does anyone use Delicious to tag the bookmarks you want to save? I've been going crazy adding to my Delicious list since I joined this board only two months ago!!!

iowabelle, I recently have gone through my huge stack of quilting magazines and have torn out only those quilts or ideas I want to save. I have recycled all that was left. It's really cut down on what I need to store. I am planning to organize the materials I've saved in file folders or in binders. Declutter and organize! :P

And you want us to help you out? We're all in the same boat, I fear.

I'm cleaning out my sewing room. LONG OVER DUE. I'm putting all my smaller pieces---------real scraps------in one bag. I think I'll cut strips to sew together until I have a strip long enough to circle the world---------------then make
mug rugs
place mats
purses
table toppers
lap robes
a sweat shirt jacket

Wanna help? lol

First of all-------------what size of project do you want to do?
How much time do you want to invest?


Maybe pick a simple pattern which you can complete rather quickly so you can move on to the next project.

The quilts and projects that I like the most I save as pictures in my picture file-----------in case I want to copy a project

Charter members, too!

BUT I'm not going to any meetings to get over my "patternaholics". No way!

Like stop signs, yield signs, store windows, church windows, vegetable bins????????????????

Hey, not a bad idea. My new 50" plasma TV has a way to use the little camera discs. I can watch all my saved pictures will I sew.

Or would that be counterproductive?

That's one thing I never spend money on. I save pictures of quilts and projects taht I can easily copy myself. If it's compicated enough that I need a pattern, it ain't happenin' at my house!

Can you get back to us about Feb. 1st and tell us how this plan is going? tee hee

[quote=OmaForFour]How about if you put the name of each on a small piece of paper and put them (folded) in a jar. Pick one. When that one is done, pick another.
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Sounds like an easy way to decide!

There's a little screen that pops up all the time on the lower right side of the screen that I turn off as soon as it pops up. I'll have to see what the site is. I HATE IT!

LOL, just a hundred? What's holding you back?

Way too many wonderful picutues on this board.

We need to take up a petition to make the days longer so we will have enough extra time to quilt. :)

I wear out quickly. What I need is a quick nap drug that lets me get a two hour nap in 15 minutes. lol

If you find out we all need some of that. :lol:

Hope you have a lovely day on Saturday for your Daughters wedding !!

tell me about it lol !!!!

There's a little screen that pops up all the time on the lower right side of the screen that I turn off as soon as it pops up. I'll have to see what the site is. I HATE IT!
Bad Spellers of the World
U N T I E


There's a pop up blocker on your computer. You can turn off those pop ups and not be bothered by them.

I think I need to win the powerball and RETIRE so I can get some of these beauties made

Hey quilters, I am always with each one of you who have thought that this Quilting Board has sown seeds for us all to keep on doing quilts. I too wish always that I had 200 years ti live on, to complete each pattern!!

Thanks for all your ideas. :lol:

You have no idea how many quilt books I have purchased, but never opened. How much fabric I have purchased but never touched - how many UFO's I have that I have lost interest in.

1 - I have decided this year, I am going to unbury my sewing room - had to declutter my spare room so my inlaws could spend Christmas Eve at our house - so naturally - as you do - I uncluttered that room into my already cluttered sewing room
2 - Organize books, fabric, sewing supplies
3 - Cut out and sew at least 5 hrs a week.
4 - Finish all my UFO's or just pass them on to a new home

I WILL DO THIS - I WILL DO THIS - I hope

If I turn the pop-up blocker off, something else I need gets turned off too. Some of my games won't work.

Yes and I think we should start our own "Patternaholics" AA Meeting.

Hi My name is Deanna and I am a Patternaholic.

If I win the lottery, we'll have to have a week long retreat someplace fun----------and really learn from each other.

Sooooo, what's the problem? :lol: (You're not alone!)

That sounds like me with quilt books and magazines. I looked at them one day and decided if I made just one quilt from each of the books and magazines I have, I would not live long enough to get one from each done. Decisions,decisions, decisions......

I was guestimating...wasn't going to actually count :lol: I also have a 4" binder FILLED with patterns. I rather like the idea of putting all the names of the quilts in a jar and just pick my next project that way. How long will it take me to write down the names of them all to put in the jar? :?

Yup! Still crazy after all these years!

I have the same problem. I see blocks I haven't tried before and just started 3 different pinwheel tops (3 different size pinwheels) just cause I loved the fabric and forgot where I left off. I'm overwhelmed with ideas too and people I want to make a quilt for. No time to do any of it. I keep thinking I need to focus on one until it is finished, but I love learning new techniques and new blocks. What is a girl to do?!

Yes...yes...yes... I do the same thing and my GD decided my computer was running too slow and proceeded to move all my quilting to CDs... aarrrrggggghhhh... now I can't find a thing!!!

yeah then you will not only have all the time you want but money to buy all the material you want too. That's what we all need to do. :!: :)

They are just UFO's -- in your mind.

Oh, you mean like the tile floor or the window in the community center? or the pattern the silhouette of a tree makes across the snow or the huge picture of a giraffe and how perfectly the shapes of the spots appear...... on and on and on?

I think I figured out the answer for what next! Last night I was dreaming about a way to do a scrappy quilt.

DRAT------------HIT SEND TOO FAST

It will be called BUTTONS & BOWS, 8 blocks wide by 10 blocks long, and sent to a female soldier at Walter Reed. It's a folded block I learned to make on a Nancy Zieman show. I'm going to set the blocks together with a black or very dark gray tone on tone.

A little bit at a time------------since it is going to be a scrappy quilt. I expect to be done this time next year

I guess i'm among a very nice group then, cuz i have alot saved on my puter. I'll never get them done but its nice to look at these and dream lol

You should see my three-ring binder of blocks and projects I want to try...some day! :lol: