How many projects do you have on the go?

Hi everyone!

I'm interested in knowing how many of you work with the rotation system. Does it really work.

I have 3 projects on the go and would like to start another without the guilt. ( big grins!)

How do you do it???

Dyan

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It seems that DW and I have a project just about in every room. There is at least a few I'm working on all the time. I guess it helps that we are not maknig anything for any deadline or celebration. We just enjoy what we do.

Regards,

Rick Boesen Olivet, MI

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Good question. It works for me - but....

My "rotation" is that I generally have 1 or 2 difficult pieces (high count, need concentration, may have complicated stitching), a couple of lower count

- like 28 - might be anything, and at least 1 canvas piece going. So, my tendency is to work on what I'm feeling inspired by, but having some projects on "easier to see" grounds gives me a break, and I'll switch to them. My canvaswork pieces tend to be complicated stitches - but fun.

No guilt - just fit it in.

Ah, the other thing - a friend once told me her rule became "work 20 minutes on a UFO before working on the piece you REALLY want to work on" .

Your pieces are so densely stitched, I'd tend to switch from working on them to something different for a break.

Ellice

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ellice

I have done it only under duress because I had sworn not to start something new until some other things were done--and it was more duty than pleasure. What I did was "schedule" one piece of work each week, and dutifully stitched the chosen bit and only that bit for a week. Then at the end of the week, I moved to the next. I had 3 pieces in the rotation, and did finish them all.

It worked, but I didn't enjoy it. It does make you finish the "ugly bits", whatever they are for you--large blocks of colour, passages of confetti stitches, backstitching, bunches of French knots or whatever your particular version of a horror show is--rather than pick up something more fun. I imagine a more focussed person, or one working under a deadline like a birthday or wedding would "just do it" without the need for rotation.

I have decided life is too short to stitch what I don't like stitching (and know myself well enough to know that that changes, and "that ugly thing" put away for several, or more than several, months, can regain its charm), so these days I just stitch what I want to stitch.

Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

I always have at least 3 or 4 projects on the go, but I don't really do a rotation thingie - I just pick up what I feel like working on that day - I would never force myself to work on a project if I didn't like it, or preferred working on A rather than B that day. It's supposed to be fun - and that's why I do it.

Sharon (N.B.)

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