How Long Is 'To Do' List?

My To Do List is just as *bad* Maureen ... these are just some of the projects in line:

Bucilla Kit - Vintage Purses Bucilla Kit - Vintage Shoes (and me who hates kits, but loved these) Mystic Stitch - Dewberry Mystic Stitch - Cat's Eye Janlynn's - Girl With Cosmos Lanarte - The Bride Lynne Nicoletti's - Bluenose Dime Foxberry Cottage - Peggy's Cove Lighthouse Lanarte - Girls With Bicycles Lanarte - Wildflowers

And many many more - but these ones are lined up first - at least until I spot another 'must have' at my LNS. It really is a sickness. :-))

Sharon ....................................................................

Longer than my arm. Long enough to take the rest of my life, and I come from a line of very very long-lived women. Dawne

Maureejn Maybe , if you worked on an item or two , instead of making the lists ??? you will have less ,,, TO DO LIsts ??? mirjam

Too long to post! If I actually wrote down everything I *want* to do, I think I would become depressed because I haven't done them and don't have the time right now to do them. LOL!

Joan

This is one of the most construction suggestions I've heard for the new year---think of the time some people could save. I never have actual "to do" lists, but have an acquaintance whose daily "to do" list begins "make revised to do list". Dawne

Well it really depends on what you mean by "to do" list. I have learned the hard way to pick up patterns that I like when I see them before they go out of print. I also do my best to support designers that I like by picking up patterns that catch my eye. Because of this habit, I have a filing drawer full of patterns. Say what you will, at least I am organized :). Technically you could say all of those patterns are on my "to do" list, because I do hope to stitch them someday. For this year though, I have more definite goals. I am currently working on Bent Creek's Winter Row for my double-shelf fireplace in the living room. I have already done Spring Row and Autumn Row, so the only other one I need to do to be "covered" is Summer Row. I also talked about having that cute shelf my hubby gave me for my birthday in the hall. I've been stitching small blocks from The Trilogy's "ology" series and have so far done two each from Autumnology, Winterology, and Eekology. I plan to do two each from Cardiology, Springology and Summerology so that I can constantly change the look of my shelf throughout the year. I am working on the "initials" idea I discussed- L for hubby, C for me and H for our last name and have completed H Is For Honey by the Prairie Schooler already. I plan to be rotating in and out "L", "C", and "H" patterns by The Prairie Schooler, Heart in Hand and Carriage House Samplings. I plan to do Mary Pleasant Curry by Carriage House Samplings to add to my "darks" in the hallway. I also have several other larger projects that I rotate in and out such as the Dora Sanger Sampler by The Scarlet Letter. Whew! I better stop posting and get stitching!

Chris Howard

Way too long and the only thing longer is my to be read pile/list.

Cheryl

Hi! Well, I have many USOs aka UnStarted Objects or something like that...I have not counted them...I think there are more than 10 but less than 200...so there are rather much. Best: Pirjo

Well, dear, you are young and have YEARS and YEARS to start them, or change your mind about them.

When you are "lots" older, like 50 more years, then your question really takes on a new meaning!! I found a box under my bed, that has about

40-50 kitted up items, or kits, and at 70 (almost, Lucille's birthday is before mine) it makes me wonder how long the eyes will be able to see to stitch them up! This, naturally, doesn't include UFOs and WIPs. Of course there are some things that I put together, or started, fifteen years ago that I am not the least interested in, anymore.

Gillian

Hi! Years ahead, yes...but my eyes are already miserable...I won't see a thing if I do not wear glasses...and I am less than 30. Argh...I hate thinking of that...When I got to my 20th birthday, I felt like I had been 30 years old. When I hit that big 30, I must feel like I am 50 or....40...or...I do not know. But needlework won't leave me as long as I live....Oh, so many projects, so little time. But I keep stitching and knitting. Best: Pirjo

I have been wearing glasses since 6th grade - which happens to be the same year I first learned to embroider! Age is definitely a number.... I am now 51 and feel better and happier than I have in YEARS - of course, a lot of that is due to divorce...lol, but the point is - be happy with who and what you are now, rather than mourn what cannot be regained.... I am another stitcher with file bins full of patterns I may never do, but I will continue to buy what I like and get to what I can. Current WIP's are TW's Noah's Ark, a Taz bookmark for my son, Creative Accent's Butterfly Expressions, Roger Reinardy's Cat's Eyes, Bucilla's God's Promises, and Shepherd's Bush's Bee Happy... a really nice mix to stave off stagnation but not enough to let any one of them languish for lack of progress.... lol Next up will probably be The Storyteller by TW, and I have a beautiful kit of The Enchanter from Dimensions that is calling to me...

It will all get done eventually - if not by me, then by my daughter or sons (who all stitch) after I am gone... lol

Dee

Corrective eye surgeries are getting much better. Perhaps you could have that done to extend your stitching years. I couldn't read the two-inch tall numbers on my alarm clock without glasses and could not safely drive at night before LASIK. I had the surgery seven years ago (at age 31) and am still glasses-free today with no complications.

I do recommend an extensive search to f> Hi!