Poll: Time on a Quilt
 

Do you spend more time on

1. Planning (drooling over other quilts, choosing colors, layout designs)
2. Cutting
3. Piecing or Applique
4. Quilting & Binding

Just curious. My answers:

1. Planning - 40% + (probably more)
2. Cutting- 10% (die or strip cuts)
3. Piecing or Applique - 40%
4. Quilting 10% (send out for long arm, bind myself)

I did not include learning. I probably spend just as much time learning via videos, DVD, classes, and reading as I do making each quilt. Its an ADD/OCD thing.

Can we add Procrastinating to the list?

If I spent even 20% of my time on cutting, piecing, and quilting I would have finished far more quilts. Too much of my time is spent looking at quilts online and in magazines and books, trying to decide what to make next, changing my mind, pulling fabrics and putting them back...

I thought I was the only one who did this! LOL

I think my time would be much like yours--perhaps even more in the planning/shopping stage! Once I get the design selected and fabric chosen I usually get the top pieced in a week or so. If I don't send it to the LAQ, my simple quilting style only takes another 3-4 days. Binding is just a couple of evenings in front of the TV.

I have to agree with Dunster! I spend way too much time looking at quilts and telling myself I will make that one, & that one, & that one..... Then I go to my sewing room and start pulling out fabric trying to decide what to do. Definitely spend the most time planning the quilt. But once I get stated then there is no stopping me! By the way, I love that quilter's brain diagram - so true!! :thumbup:

So its not just me! haha. I thought I was the only one spending more time planning than quilting.

lol, me too! that, and flitting from project to project

Looks like I'm not the only one! LOL

Piecing for sure.

Seems to me there is another missing element....RIPPING....there are times when I get more ripping done than correctly piecing blocks....LOL