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1lesmel
Leah Day asks, "Do you have a lot of UFOs that need to be finished?"
https://freemotionproject.com/2019/09/ten-steps-to-finishing-your-quilt-ufos.htm...
Her 10 steps (briefly) to getting it done:
1. Make a list
2. Choose the most meaningful
3. Separate by construction method
4. Display the UFOs (a.ka. stop hiding them b/c then you are going to ignore them)
5. Get serious (a.k.a. initiate laser-like focus)
6. Why are you stuck?
7. Decide to not be stuck and do it
8. Calculate your ETF (estimated time to finish)
9. 15 minute rule!
10. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. (a.k.a. You are in Quilting Jail)
BONUS! 11. Don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed (a.k.a. focus on the thing in front of you)
I have some dithering about this post -- it is very KonMari (which I'm a fan of) -- mostly in the execution of the method. I look at finishing quilting projects the same way I look at getting back in the gym...15-min Rule. Everything I ever don't want to do but know I should do boils down to "give it 15 minutes of your life." If I can get beyond the first 15 minutes, the road may still be bumpy; but I'm not stuck with indecision.
Having said that, her #6 and #7 almost always lead to me being overwhelmed and throwing my project in a drawer. In fact, I have a quilt top that I've had as a UFO for probably 15+ years. I scavenged the fabric from one block and now I'm like, WTF? Also, it was supposed to be a college memory quilt with signatures from all the people I was friends with. The signature part never happened...doesn't mean the quilt can't happen; but it still makes me cringe a little when I pull it out on occasion.
Anyone? Thoughts?
https://freemotionproject.com/2019/09/ten-steps-to-finishing-your-quilt-ufos.htm...
Her 10 steps (briefly) to getting it done:
1. Make a list
2. Choose the most meaningful
3. Separate by construction method
4. Display the UFOs (a.ka. stop hiding them b/c then you are going to ignore them)
5. Get serious (a.k.a. initiate laser-like focus)
6. Why are you stuck?
7. Decide to not be stuck and do it
8. Calculate your ETF (estimated time to finish)
9. 15 minute rule!
10. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200. (a.k.a. You are in Quilting Jail)
BONUS! 11. Don't allow yourself to be overwhelmed (a.k.a. focus on the thing in front of you)
I have some dithering about this post -- it is very KonMari (which I'm a fan of) -- mostly in the execution of the method. I look at finishing quilting projects the same way I look at getting back in the gym...15-min Rule. Everything I ever don't want to do but know I should do boils down to "give it 15 minutes of your life." If I can get beyond the first 15 minutes, the road may still be bumpy; but I'm not stuck with indecision.
Having said that, her #6 and #7 almost always lead to me being overwhelmed and throwing my project in a drawer. In fact, I have a quilt top that I've had as a UFO for probably 15+ years. I scavenged the fabric from one block and now I'm like, WTF? Also, it was supposed to be a college memory quilt with signatures from all the people I was friends with. The signature part never happened...doesn't mean the quilt can't happen; but it still makes me cringe a little when I pull it out on occasion.
Anyone? Thoughts?
2Lyndatrue
>1 lesmel: If it's comforting (which I doubt), I have a project sitting on the sewing machine that I posted about, here in Needlearts, in 2017. Early 2017. I've made exactly zero progress on it.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/246042
https://www.librarything.com/topic/246017#5877280
I'm sure you feel slightly better, or at least no worse... XXOO
Let me know when you're ready to drop by and help finish my projects.
At least I documented the Friendship quilt, and then donated it to the local Quilt Museum.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/246042
https://www.librarything.com/topic/246017#5877280
I'm sure you feel slightly better, or at least no worse... XXOO
Let me know when you're ready to drop by and help finish my projects.
At least I documented the Friendship quilt, and then donated it to the local Quilt Museum.
3dudes22
I think I've seen that list (or something like it) before. I'd be willing to bet that all of us here have UFOs. I have a ton. And every year I state it as my goal to get some done, but the new-and-shiny sidetrack me every time.
I have one quilt on a shelf that I made the background and got it quilted to the back, but have never appliqued the pieces on to it. I'm pretty sure it's been there almost 20 years because I was making it for a friend and co-worker and I've been retired from that job almost 20 years. I didn't like the way the pattern suggested the pieces be applied and didn't have enough quilting experience to figure it out myself. I think it's been in my first post every year since I started with this group. You have given me a push though. Maybe I'll prepare the pieces and take it when we go away next winter for a hand project.
I have one quilt on a shelf that I made the background and got it quilted to the back, but have never appliqued the pieces on to it. I'm pretty sure it's been there almost 20 years because I was making it for a friend and co-worker and I've been retired from that job almost 20 years. I didn't like the way the pattern suggested the pieces be applied and didn't have enough quilting experience to figure it out myself. I think it's been in my first post every year since I started with this group. You have given me a push though. Maybe I'll prepare the pieces and take it when we go away next winter for a hand project.
4avaland
>1 lesmel: What a weird list. It doesn't seem to make sense. I had to Google "Kon-mari." Not a fan of her (maybe I've been through enough pop culture stuff at this point in my life that I'm immune).
Here's my rule: "Don't should all over yourself"
At some point you'll do something about your college quilt, or you'll decide to salvage what's there for something else. (My sister tried to do that. Collected some signatures, never made the quilt---she doesn't sew!
>2 Lyndatrue: To that I suggest: remove it from the sewing machine and keep moving. You'll go back to it when you are ready.
Love that 70s pattern! (how did I miss that?) I'm very nostalgic over my late 60s (keyhole dress, anyone), 70s era patterns. They were well-loved (i.e. low slung, big bell pants). I'm thinking of making myself some patchwork tunic tops....
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I accumulate UFOs because 1. finishing the quilts aren't nearly as much fun as making the tops. 2. I often have the impulse to try something. I wonder what x would look like? What if I do this? Oh, I want to try that! ...That kind of thinking. Sometimes those things get finished, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they get recycled (I found a small impulsive piece recently, one where I was playing with a diamond arrangement of small blocks... I took a rotary cutter to it and the best bits ended up in my random scrap bins and will show up in one or more of those quilts).
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Would it help you if we all made UFO lists? I'm willing. Maybe we can have awards for "oldest UFO," "biggest," "smallest," "scariest," "better you than me UFO."
Here's my rule: "Don't should all over yourself"
At some point you'll do something about your college quilt, or you'll decide to salvage what's there for something else. (My sister tried to do that. Collected some signatures, never made the quilt---she doesn't sew!
>2 Lyndatrue: To that I suggest: remove it from the sewing machine and keep moving. You'll go back to it when you are ready.
Love that 70s pattern! (how did I miss that?) I'm very nostalgic over my late 60s (keyhole dress, anyone), 70s era patterns. They were well-loved (i.e. low slung, big bell pants). I'm thinking of making myself some patchwork tunic tops....
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I accumulate UFOs because 1. finishing the quilts aren't nearly as much fun as making the tops. 2. I often have the impulse to try something. I wonder what x would look like? What if I do this? Oh, I want to try that! ...That kind of thinking. Sometimes those things get finished, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they get recycled (I found a small impulsive piece recently, one where I was playing with a diamond arrangement of small blocks... I took a rotary cutter to it and the best bits ended up in my random scrap bins and will show up in one or more of those quilts).
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Would it help you if we all made UFO lists? I'm willing. Maybe we can have awards for "oldest UFO," "biggest," "smallest," "scariest," "better you than me UFO."
5avaland
Ok, lesmel, you have inspired (?) me to assess the current UFO situation, and the result is "not-bad-could-be-worse." I have such things stored in pizza boxes.
1. A scrappy quilt top in fall colors done several years ago. My first organically-designed quilt. It is in limbo because I want it quilted a specific way and with different threads. So, custom work (and expensive) unless I do it myself. Can't decide.
2. A batik quilt of quarter circles from about 10 years ago. It was first intended to be large wall hanging for above the couch in the student common room in the house my daughter was house mother of (private school in Lake Placid). She decided to leave to teach in Missouri before I finished it. I have cut more pieces from what I had left and similar fabrics in hopes of expanding it to quilt size but adding to the design looks not-quite-right, imo. So, stalemate. I will probably finish this in the near future and donate it (unless my daughter wants it)
3. At least two, maybe three table runners. I would make table runners just for the fun of it, sometime to try a block pattern, rarely did any go with my decor. Perhaps I will finish these and use them on the deck or porch. Or, donate them to the cabins we stay at.... or...use them and build a donation quilt around it
4. I think there is a very small quilt top made with leftovers from two previous quilts that used the same set of fabrics....but I wonder where that is? It was made with a black background. Perhaps, it could be also have a quilt built around it and donated.
I did find a pieced pillow top from the early 80s. I think I may slice that up and throw it in the random scrap bins for my scrappy quilts. But, right now when I see it I think of this era (and get a little wistful):
(those two children turned 35 and 37 last weekend)
The Good News:
This is less than the last time I assessed!
I found 6 blocks leftover from blocks sent to primlil (LT name) for assembly in Australia in 2009. They were making quilts for victims of the horrendous Victoria fires. It looks like I could put these six blocks together and add a few borders and I'd have another donation quilt.
I found several of the pizza boxes empty!
I found some sample blocks made that I might use the pattern of....
1. A scrappy quilt top in fall colors done several years ago. My first organically-designed quilt. It is in limbo because I want it quilted a specific way and with different threads. So, custom work (and expensive) unless I do it myself. Can't decide.
2. A batik quilt of quarter circles from about 10 years ago. It was first intended to be large wall hanging for above the couch in the student common room in the house my daughter was house mother of (private school in Lake Placid). She decided to leave to teach in Missouri before I finished it. I have cut more pieces from what I had left and similar fabrics in hopes of expanding it to quilt size but adding to the design looks not-quite-right, imo. So, stalemate. I will probably finish this in the near future and donate it (unless my daughter wants it)
3. At least two, maybe three table runners. I would make table runners just for the fun of it, sometime to try a block pattern, rarely did any go with my decor. Perhaps I will finish these and use them on the deck or porch. Or, donate them to the cabins we stay at.... or...use them and build a donation quilt around it
4. I think there is a very small quilt top made with leftovers from two previous quilts that used the same set of fabrics....but I wonder where that is? It was made with a black background. Perhaps, it could be also have a quilt built around it and donated.
I did find a pieced pillow top from the early 80s. I think I may slice that up and throw it in the random scrap bins for my scrappy quilts. But, right now when I see it I think of this era (and get a little wistful):
(those two children turned 35 and 37 last weekend)The Good News:
This is less than the last time I assessed!
I found 6 blocks leftover from blocks sent to primlil (LT name) for assembly in Australia in 2009. They were making quilts for victims of the horrendous Victoria fires. It looks like I could put these six blocks together and add a few borders and I'd have another donation quilt.
I found several of the pizza boxes empty!
I found some sample blocks made that I might use the pattern of....
6avaland
>1 lesmel: I want to thank you because had you not started this thread, I wouldn't have found the orphan blocks while I was still working on all the donation quilts. I took the 7 (actually) aforementioned leftover 12" blocks, made two more, sewed the 9 together and they make a nice 3x3 ft piece. With a decent-sized border it will be big enough for another kid's comfort quilt.
7lesmel
>6 avaland: Woohoo!!
>4 avaland: Have you watched Marie Kondo? She's a hoot. Her book was a hoot and a half. While I am a fan of her & her method, I haven't used it. I like her sense of functional minimalism.
>4 avaland: Have you watched Marie Kondo? She's a hoot. Her book was a hoot and a half. While I am a fan of her & her method, I haven't used it. I like her sense of functional minimalism.
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