UFO or Designated Stash?
02-09-2014, 05:38 PM
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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.
02-09-2014, 11:53 PM
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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 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.
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02-10-2014, 04:00 AM
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...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....
it's perfectly logical that a block to learn a technique is not a ufo because it was never intended to be finished. 
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