What counts as a UFO??
01-11-2019, 01:09 PM
#31
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I also agree with the first scenario; to me the 2nd would fall in the bucket list category; not that list for me is very long. I still have to get all my real ufo's together to know exactly how many I do have; i'm sure TOO many! 
01-11-2019, 04:02 PM
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Wow. What a great thread. It's amazing to read the different definition we all have of our UFOs. To me a UFO is a top that is pieced and complete, but it still needs to be sandwiched, quilted and bound. But after reading this thread I may have to redefine my UFOs...... I can honestly say that I don't have any UFOs by my previously mentioned definition, however I do have 7 WIP currently. 7 quilt tops that are sandwiched, quilted, and just waiting for bindings.
01-11-2019, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by peaceandjoy
So for me, tops are easier to store as well as not involving a large expense. They get quilted as money allows, or when I realize I have a perfect top for somebody. I do keep the binding or binding fabric with the top until that happens.
09-27-2019, 08:25 PM
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I finally have this sorted out in my mind. I only consider finished tops that haven't been quilted to be UFOs. Fabrics gathered and paired with a pattern are Planned Projects. If I've started a quilt, whether just cut or partially constructed, and then bagged the components, that's a WIP.
09-27-2019, 10:04 PM
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Great to hear so many ideas of how to define what we do.
I find piecing relaxing so now I have many 'completed tops'.
The boxes of string QAYG, square in a square, four patches etc, all from scraps and waiting for enough for a charity quilt are now 'WIP'
Tops currently being worked on or quilted are PHDs.
So only the things that have been started at workshops attended just to be with quilty friends, not because I was really keen on the item being made; or 'oh I'll make this bag, box etc for a friend's gift' but missed the date; or 'oh I don't think this fabric really goes together', will be UFOs.
Luckily my humungous 'fabric conservation project' can still be called Stash with no guilt at all .
I find piecing relaxing so now I have many 'completed tops'.
The boxes of string QAYG, square in a square, four patches etc, all from scraps and waiting for enough for a charity quilt are now 'WIP'
Tops currently being worked on or quilted are PHDs.
So only the things that have been started at workshops attended just to be with quilty friends, not because I was really keen on the item being made; or 'oh I'll make this bag, box etc for a friend's gift' but missed the date; or 'oh I don't think this fabric really goes together', will be UFOs.
Luckily my humungous 'fabric conservation project' can still be called Stash with no guilt at all .
09-28-2019, 06:41 AM
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Fun that this thread was brought back up, over the course of the last year I've had to put together "collections of fabrics that could be used together" but which I'm not calling or considering kits because I don't want the pressure of UFOs on my feeble little mind. Since this thread was started I did complete the top and pieced back of the postcard quilt, but it isn't quilted down yet. Not even sure how I will... but the binding is made and I've started to give away the excess collected theme fabric.
I have finished several projects that needed quilting, and I've made several complete tops including a comfort quilt for my BFF who had a lumpectomy. That was about a 2-week turnaround, I can move when I'm prodded!
My Farm/Harvest/Paper Pieced quilt is still in progress. It has moved up to having its box of fabric next to the sewing table to nag me. I've cleared out my room/table so I can work on it. I just haven't quite worked on it yet
I still have two other projects kitted out but not cut to work on, my Snowflake/Lonestar Sampler for January for me, and the Christmas String project also for me.
I have so much fabric and so much potential that sometimes was killed by trying to go into the fabric and make decisions. So I allocated a box for my "slice and dice" projects, the things I do to keep busy and which are mostly donations. Now instead of going into 20 boxes for a new project, I can look in one box and choose something to work with, even if I do need to pull a few more pieces.
My current two projects I didn't even have in mind when this thread was made, they will both be for donation. I was given a large box of precut squares and have been doing things with them. One is a juvenile/novelty print top, the other is all metallic embellished fabric I'm calling "Scrap Metal". The juvenile top will be quilted down eventually, it will be twin sized which is a little larger than what I like to quilt on my domestic machine but I can do it. I'm not used to working with precut squares and it took me a bit to fully get a swing with what I'm doing (no pattern, just a picture for inspiration), but I just have to cut a few more squares down into sashing rectangles and will soon have enough progress for a picture. Don't know if the Scrap Metal top will ever be quilted, but it will be fun to work on.
I'm growing more and more comfortable with the idea that I'm not going to quilt down every top I make. I'm ok with that, it's the playing with fabric that I enjoy.
I have finished several projects that needed quilting, and I've made several complete tops including a comfort quilt for my BFF who had a lumpectomy. That was about a 2-week turnaround, I can move when I'm prodded!
My Farm/Harvest/Paper Pieced quilt is still in progress. It has moved up to having its box of fabric next to the sewing table to nag me. I've cleared out my room/table so I can work on it. I just haven't quite worked on it yet
I still have two other projects kitted out but not cut to work on, my Snowflake/Lonestar Sampler for January for me, and the Christmas String project also for me.
I have so much fabric and so much potential that sometimes was killed by trying to go into the fabric and make decisions. So I allocated a box for my "slice and dice" projects, the things I do to keep busy and which are mostly donations. Now instead of going into 20 boxes for a new project, I can look in one box and choose something to work with, even if I do need to pull a few more pieces.
My current two projects I didn't even have in mind when this thread was made, they will both be for donation. I was given a large box of precut squares and have been doing things with them. One is a juvenile/novelty print top, the other is all metallic embellished fabric I'm calling "Scrap Metal". The juvenile top will be quilted down eventually, it will be twin sized which is a little larger than what I like to quilt on my domestic machine but I can do it. I'm not used to working with precut squares and it took me a bit to fully get a swing with what I'm doing (no pattern, just a picture for inspiration), but I just have to cut a few more squares down into sashing rectangles and will soon have enough progress for a picture. Don't know if the Scrap Metal top will ever be quilted, but it will be fun to work on.
I'm growing more and more comfortable with the idea that I'm not going to quilt down every top I make. I'm ok with that, it's the playing with fabric that I enjoy.
09-28-2019, 07:47 AM
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In my mind all of my UFO's are projects that I have started and never finish and they go into a bin half done so I can start on something new that I just saw a pattern for or a quilt that was displayed in a shop or on pinterest. Believe me-I have plenty of UFO's
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