What Do You Do When .... ?
#23
Originally Posted by hcarpanini
feed your pieces in between instead of cutting threads. Before you know it, it will be done.
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: California
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I too find that sometimes I need to tell myself that I am not going to start that new project I want to do until I get this one DONE! It keeps me going. I also organize the project very precisely. I cut ALL the pieces I need so there is no, "I can't make those blocks now because the pieces aren't cut." type of thing.
Lay all the parts out how they need to be done. Stack all your strips by light, dark, color or however you're doing it, and keep them out right there by the sewing machine. Don't make it so that you have to get it out to work on it.
Lay all the parts out how they need to be done. Stack all your strips by light, dark, color or however you're doing it, and keep them out right there by the sewing machine. Don't make it so that you have to get it out to work on it.
#26
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I thought it was just me. I only had a few more blocks to do to finish a project i really love. I kept putting it off. Today I finally finished them. Even though i love the quilt pattern,colors and doing the blocks I dont think I like doing the same thing over and over. Think next I will try a sampler.
#30
Prism99 has a good point; the timer works for those projects that just don't seem to excite me. I'm currently working on a log cabin myself, I love a scrap anything, but a log cabin, draws me, like a cleanser between other projects, so I do those more than any other pattern....I started working 'a block' at a time, that was very tedious to me, as it's a 'planned' srappy... so now I'm doing a round at a time, and I've found that it really helps to get how ever many finished blocks you have up on the design wall so you can see your progress, it started moving along after that. Or, there's always the option of just not finishing it,; I've send a couple quilts to the second hand store like that before, when it just became too much of a chore to work on them... Good luck.
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