Dead Woman Walking! LOL
#1
Dead Woman Walking! LOL
Last night I got on a kick to find my crochet hooks.....going through all the usual places and my husband ask me what I was doing, so I told him that I was looking for my crochet hook because I found this really easy looking pattern for a shrug and wanted to start that. He made me sit down with a pencil and paper and list everything I have started and not finished.......
So, with that being said.....I have 6 quilts started in various stages, 11 Christmas ornaments started in various stages, 4 cross stitch projects in various stages, 11 safety pin beaded watches (got all the stuff haven't started yet), a quilted table runner and 4 matching placemats kit, and now I want to start a crochet project. (In my defense I have the yarn already)!
Is this a sickness? Do I need intervention? He was being cute, but it did make me stop and think that maybe I need to focus on finishing things!
Anyone else have this problem?
So, with that being said.....I have 6 quilts started in various stages, 11 Christmas ornaments started in various stages, 4 cross stitch projects in various stages, 11 safety pin beaded watches (got all the stuff haven't started yet), a quilted table runner and 4 matching placemats kit, and now I want to start a crochet project. (In my defense I have the yarn already)!
Is this a sickness? Do I need intervention? He was being cute, but it did make me stop and think that maybe I need to focus on finishing things!
Anyone else have this problem?
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One of my daughters says the reason I don't finish hardly anything is what she calls my ADD. Now, I have never been diagnosed with ADD by a doctor, but 4 out of my 6 grandbabies and 1 daughter out of 3 have. Perhaps you and I both have an undiagnosed underlying condition, or we just get bored and want to move on..... lol
FYI.... I sat down and made myself a list. I have 33 unfinished quilting projects (my WIP's - Works in Progress) and over 100 kits of material with the pattern that are now on my UFO list because everything is there to make the project, except me. I have sworn that I will not go nuts at the International quilt festival in Houston again this year! Oh, did I mention that I also crochet and have a few of those UFO's too and several big boxes of various threads and yards?
FYI.... I sat down and made myself a list. I have 33 unfinished quilting projects (my WIP's - Works in Progress) and over 100 kits of material with the pattern that are now on my UFO list because everything is there to make the project, except me. I have sworn that I will not go nuts at the International quilt festival in Houston again this year! Oh, did I mention that I also crochet and have a few of those UFO's too and several big boxes of various threads and yards?
#5
oh YES! I have 3 knitting projects...and I cannot tell you how many quilting projects. On Jan 1st I go thru my UFOs and usually stop COUNTING at 30. I was thinking my empty nest would give me more time to sew/finish, but so far NOPE! Small house update and more trips that I care to take have kept me from my sewing room so far. I too am a 'starter' and proud of it! (oh, and I have finished quite a bit this yr as well...)
#6
pyffer3, I hope you found your crochet hooks. There's nothing like starting a new yarny project for fun.
I have about 5 projects ready to start (materials bought) but I don't think they should be considered unfinished until they are started.
I have about 5 projects ready to start (materials bought) but I don't think they should be considered unfinished until they are started.
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Location: Pratt Kansas
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I was programmed from a young age not to finish things. Whatever I was working on, I was asked WHY I was doing it, WHY did I start with that aspect of the project, WHY wasn't I doing something else. Both parents, and then my (now ex) husband. If it wasn't verbal, then it was physical.
The time I bought my first house. The garage was detached from the house, but the large dog run was around the access door., the prior owners had used it as a dog house.
I cleaned it out, swept it. Was going to start bringing over boxes... My father put his table saw in there & started whizzin' away.
Sawdust, really? Well, I couldn't put boxes in there.
If that's what he was going to do, why wasn't he doing it until I cleaned it out???
Okay, off rant, now.
So (up until) now, I started a quilt. It might even get to flimsy stage. I'm programmed to NOT finish. (someone will ridicule me or switch me to another task). These things won't actually happen, but it's what I mentally/emotionally expect to happen.
This year, 2014, I am consciously working toward finishing things/quilts/tasks/house projects.
...related to ADD/ADHD...but not bio/physical - more toward emotional/mental.
The time I bought my first house. The garage was detached from the house, but the large dog run was around the access door., the prior owners had used it as a dog house.
I cleaned it out, swept it. Was going to start bringing over boxes... My father put his table saw in there & started whizzin' away.
Sawdust, really? Well, I couldn't put boxes in there.
If that's what he was going to do, why wasn't he doing it until I cleaned it out???
Okay, off rant, now.
So (up until) now, I started a quilt. It might even get to flimsy stage. I'm programmed to NOT finish. (someone will ridicule me or switch me to another task). These things won't actually happen, but it's what I mentally/emotionally expect to happen.
This year, 2014, I am consciously working toward finishing things/quilts/tasks/house projects.
...related to ADD/ADHD...but not bio/physical - more toward emotional/mental.
#8
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Never, and I repeat never make a list of UFO's! I just work through mine one by one. I don't feel guilty that way when a start a new project that catches my eye. I hope you found your crochet hook and started on your shrug.
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