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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.