WIP's and UFO's

Oh, and don't forget the "PIGS" (projects in grocery sacks). We all have lots - it's perfectly normal and almost required!

I have too many to count.

and PIPs..... projects in planning

Oh, I like that! I have lots of those!

I think you're quite normal Mary - I have a baby quilt to be quilted - it's all basted together for the quilting, then I have a Dresden Plate full size one being quilted, and I have started the process of another full size one - cut out some blocks and the vines that will be shaped into hearts on the background blocks. Got all the fabrics out that I'll be using on this one - at least I think so. :-)) Besides this, I have a cross-stitch 3/4 done, one about 85% done and I started another little one tonight. I love have several things on the go at the time - I never get bored that way. Oh did I say I have my next big one picked out and in the stage of picking colours for it. I love being busy. Could you tell?

Sharon (N.B.)

I acknowledge 14 projects which have at least some sewing started on them. I do not count projects which are in contemplation, even if some of the proposed components are living in the same box, bag or pile together.

Perhaps your DH owuld understand that one may choose to not eat just apples until they are gone and then eat oranges until they are gone and then carrots and then tomatoes but rather one would prefer a mix of tastes and experiences?

Mary

Hi Mary,

You wouldn't be a "normal" quilter if you didn't have some WIPs and UFO's lying around.

Let's see as for me, I've got 3 WIP's, and 6 UFO's, just counting off the top of my head (which means there may be more UFO's that I just haven't come across in awhile. :-)

Michelle > I'm just curious how many WIP's and UFO's you all have? I haven't been

Mary, I have two UFOs; I had three, but I gave the blocks to someone else to make a charity quilt. I may do the same with the other two, just because I hate to have UFOs.

As for WIPs, I have six at the moment. I'm in the middle of machine quilting my feathered stars; my hummingbird top is finished but needs sandwiching and quilting; two camp projects need to be finished up and quilted, and my Quilted Diamonds are on-going with no particular end in sight (I just like making them and will eventually figure out what I want to do with them). As of this morning, I'm on hiatus from everything until I go to China to visit my DT; I'm at a good stopping point on everything and don't want to mess that up. I will, however, be taking some of my QD blocks with me to work on, since hand work is so portable. :)

I have at least 8 - probably more, but I can count 8 without hardly thinking about it!

There are 4 WIPs here (but one is on its way home from the long arm quilter as I write this -- first time I've ever let one of my babies go away from home that way, but better to send it out than for it to become a UFO!) I also have 4 others whose pix haven't made it to webshots yet.

Tell DH that, as far as I can tell, you are a normal quilter.

Anne > I'm just curious how many WIP's and UFO's you all have? I haven't been

Wow, what a can of worms you have opened!!! I confess, I have two WIPs right now and two UFOs that I work on when the mood moves me. Also one kit that I can't get around to making. Three cabinets full of fabric. And no time to work with it. But sooner or later the work will slack off and I can take out the FW and get busy.

That's an excellent way to put it, Mary! We need a varied diet of fabrics and projects.

More than I am willing to admit :-P

I've got at least 15 tops/backing/bindings waiting to be quilted (that doesn't count the 30 or so that I DID quilt in the past year) and at least

25-30 more in the blocks/but not yet tops stage.

Seventeen last time I counted but that was a while ago. I am not sure how many are UFO and how many are WIPs, PIGs or PIPs.

I have decided that since I teach most qualify as teaching samples and therefore I feel little or no need to rush to finish them. (That's my excuse and I am sticking to it!)

Of course the 17 did not include about 10 boxes of fabrics with sketches/doodles/plans that are stacked away on the shelves for when I get time for "me-sewing".

If pressed on this side of my personality I proudly proclaim that "I am not hung-up on this completion-mania fad" or that I have a Renaissance mind that likes to learn about many aspects of things.

You're certainly not alone, Mary. At the moment I have 4 WIP's and 3 UFO's (plus 6 in my immediate list-in-mind-with-fabric-collected!). The UFO's have become such as things have come along with deadlines, before I have completed them - so, they have had to be left. Deadlines being what they are, they come along one after the other, and so ...

I'm promising myself a deadline-free year next year. So, perhaps? ... ... . In message , mb from pa writes

My DH has asked me why I'm making more quilts when I have made everyone in the family a quilt and we have plenty! I just tell him I'm using up my material. LOL - as if that would ever happen.

I've been needleworking in one form or another over 30 years. I still have some waiting to be framed from over 10 years ago. There are countless kits, charts etc whispering, cajoling and teasing from the chest behind me I only started quilting in about April this year and I already have 2 WIP's. But then I'm the sort of person who is thinking at breakfast time about what I will have for dinner. Hey, I'm normal!

Look> I'm just curious how many WIP's and UFO's you all have? I haven't been

Way too many! I just can't seem to get excited about some of them so they don't get finished. Also have several kits which looked good at the time, but need excuse to begin. Christmas is coming :)

Denny