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IAmCatOwned 02-09-2014 05:30 PM

If it is a packaged project, not yet cut, I call it a PIG, not a UFO. PIGS may never be assembled, fabric put back into the collection.

I have lots of UFOs, only a few PIGS.

Jo C 02-09-2014 05:38 PM

Interesting answers! I have 4or 5 things going at once, but I don't think of them as UFOs. To me, a UFO is an unquilted top....and I have 16 of those right now! Also have 16 projects in waiting. I guess those are PIGS.

mighty 02-09-2014 09:31 PM

If I have not started it it is not a UFO to me.

justflyingin 02-09-2014 11:53 PM

I think of my UFOs as the things that go in the cabinet over there...projects cut or partially cut and started sewing and then put aside.

My finished-but-not-yet-quilted tops, while I technically think of them as UFOs are in a different category to me. They put pressure on me, but the projects "in process" or "put aside" are the ones that I really think of as UFOs.

Because I now have an embroidery machine, I also have a lot of embroidered squares that are beautiful and I'm not sure what to do with them. Most of them I want to make into quilts, but they represent a whole 'nother category of unfinished.

sandy l 02-10-2014 03:59 AM

My UFO's are completed tops, but not yet sandwiched and finished. WIP's are anything that I have started and put aside until??. Every thing else is stash.

QuiltnNan 02-10-2014 04:00 AM


Originally Posted by dunster (Post 6565348)
...I also don't consider small things started in class to be UFO's if the purpose of the class was to learn a technique. The output from the class might be incorporated into a quilt someday, but that doesn't mean it's a UFO until then. It's just a class sample. It has fulfilled its purpose and it can't nag me to do anything more with it....

thanks, dunster, that cuts down on my ufo's :) it's perfectly logical that a block to learn a technique is not a ufo because it was never intended to be finished. :thumbup:


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