What counts as a UFO??
01-11-2019, 04:53 AM
#21
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Thanks for clarifying a UFO and a WIP. If I come to a place where things went wrong or I am unsure of the next step, it gets a tub with a label, and hopefully, the pattern goes in the tub and is shelved. That is a UFO. If I am still tending to it and working on it then it is a WIP. But I have several WIP going on at the same time.
Something else friends here have taught me: A date with "Jack" is not a tall glass of Jack Daniels, rather some time becoming acquainted with your seam ripper whose name is Jack the Ripper.
Something else friends here have taught me: A date with "Jack" is not a tall glass of Jack Daniels, rather some time becoming acquainted with your seam ripper whose name is Jack the Ripper.
01-11-2019, 04:56 AM
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I just finished reading a blog by The Quilted Twins about how Rachel is going to tackle all of her UFO's by the end of this year. The question that came to my mind is what exactly counts as a UFO (unfinished object for all the newbies). Is it strictly something that you have started and not completed the sewing/quilting on and so it's been moved aside for something else. Or do you count the project you have purchased pattern and fabric for but have not yet started? If it's the first, then I only have two UFO's and if it's the second then I must have a million. What about you?
01-11-2019, 05:15 AM
#23
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There is the UFO and the USO in my mind . Unstarted Objects are never unfinished or I’d go crazy with pressure.
To me, UFO, has not only been set aside, but forgotten. Could be for months or years. Generally it’s due to my having lost interest in it.
A WIP coild be set aside and taking months or years but I’m still interested in it and enjoy adding to it when in the mood.
To me, UFO, has not only been set aside, but forgotten. Could be for months or years. Generally it’s due to my having lost interest in it.
A WIP coild be set aside and taking months or years but I’m still interested in it and enjoy adding to it when in the mood.
01-11-2019, 06:43 AM
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Gosh, I like SillySusan's answer. That would change my UFO list considerably, lol.
My problem is that I everything up to putting a top together. Choosing fabrics, cutting, putting units and blocks together. Somehow, that's where I stall. A combination of boredom with a project, trying to arrange blocks so that not too many of the same fabric comes together at seams (large, scrappy quilts are my typical projects) and the challenge of keeping blocks in the right place. I don't know why I just let those blocks languish!
I have probably 6 or 8 "kits" because I have learned the hard way that I have a specific pattern in mind for a fabric, then forget about the pattern, or can't find it when I want it, and use the fabric for something else. For example, there was a pattern that I'd seen in a magazine that used a stripe for sashing. It was a CW pattern, and the stripes done in blues in the sashing played an important part in how complicated the pattern looked. A while later, I found a perfect fabric on sale, knowing I had that magazine someplace. After going through scads of magazines, I gave up, thinking maybe I'd recycled it or passed it along. Of course, I later found the pattern. Anyhow, those kits are not UFO's for me. Nor are the rarely purchased kits.
If I haven't started cutting/sewing, to me, it's not a UFO.
I am working on being more like KalamaQuilts. I have a list of UFO's that I'd like to make significant progress on, if not finish, this year.
Finished for me is usually a completed top. Most of the time, I don't have a recipient in mind when I'm sewing. I quilt by check (send to a LA). 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.
My problem is that I everything up to putting a top together. Choosing fabrics, cutting, putting units and blocks together. Somehow, that's where I stall. A combination of boredom with a project, trying to arrange blocks so that not too many of the same fabric comes together at seams (large, scrappy quilts are my typical projects) and the challenge of keeping blocks in the right place. I don't know why I just let those blocks languish!
I have probably 6 or 8 "kits" because I have learned the hard way that I have a specific pattern in mind for a fabric, then forget about the pattern, or can't find it when I want it, and use the fabric for something else. For example, there was a pattern that I'd seen in a magazine that used a stripe for sashing. It was a CW pattern, and the stripes done in blues in the sashing played an important part in how complicated the pattern looked. A while later, I found a perfect fabric on sale, knowing I had that magazine someplace. After going through scads of magazines, I gave up, thinking maybe I'd recycled it or passed it along. Of course, I later found the pattern. Anyhow, those kits are not UFO's for me. Nor are the rarely purchased kits.
If I haven't started cutting/sewing, to me, it's not a UFO.
I am working on being more like KalamaQuilts. I have a list of UFO's that I'd like to make significant progress on, if not finish, this year.
Finished for me is usually a completed top. Most of the time, I don't have a recipient in mind when I'm sewing. I quilt by check (send to a LA). 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.
01-11-2019, 06:56 AM
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I consider any Tops just sitting around waiting for batting/backing/binding as my UFO's...I usually don't start anything else until that particular top is done...So I have abt 6 tops sitting. What I did this wk was go thru and look them over and decided I lost total interest in certain tops...I'm on overload between crochet blankets and quilts have since moved onto doing wall hanging art quilts only. So I put several of my tops on ebay to sell and move them along.
01-11-2019, 08:17 AM
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Me, too. Unquilted tops comprise my UFOs. If I counted projects I've contemplated -- such as fabric bagged together for a someday quilt -- I'd be so overwhelmed, I'd probably just quit. I'm overwhelmed, as in haunted, enough by the unquilted tops -- about 10 of them!
01-11-2019, 10:39 AM
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I agree. I have at least three projects worth of fabric that is not cut because a pattern has not been decided on, but I'm not counting those as UFOs. I'm only counting the one quilt top that is half made as a UFO.
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