jobuck Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Mary Beth: In our guild in Panama City, Florida we have tried to find a solution to the mountains of UFOs. We came up with a challenge ( a lists is submitted by each member who wanted to participate)---each time an entry is completed it is marked off--- at the end of the year the top three with the most completed projects--receive an award. I managed to finish eight last year and seven the year before. Our top producers had 13 the first year and 16 the second. It is challenging and fun. Jo-Ellen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtreusch Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Projects?? What projects?? I haven't pieced anything in 2 years and I haven't been quilting long enough to accumulate UFO's. I do have a wholecloth in progress and lots of design ideas in my head. Does that count?? Debbi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocoholic Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Cheryl, I only have 107 now. Bonnie, when I was doing my spreadsheet, I did find some that I had forgotten I had so that is a chance you take! Holly, so glad that I could make you feel better about what you have for UFOs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingstitcher Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Mary Beth, you're in trouble now. Sheila takes the cake! Cathey looks organized even with her broken dishes. Shana not talking? Would you believe that? To remove guilt, Sharon Schamber once said in a lecture to buy some fancy boxes and a spool of pretty ribbon. Put an unfinished project in each box along with the directions and all information relating to it, the extra fabric to finish it, and perhaps a note to the person that inherits the box. She said that some projects are not meant to be finished since they represented a time when you were interested in that particular technique and got from it what you wanted. By putting it into a decorated box you provide a nice present to the person that gets it as a gift or inherits it like Cathey got her grandmother's unfinished quilt. You then remove the guilt of needing to complete the quilt. I just got back from Quilt Camp in the Pines two weeks ago, finished my Hoffman Challenge (see I do finish some things) and now have three unfinished quilts and a beading project. I also have a painting from the February class. Should we stop learning so we can finish quilts? It's funny that I only have three quilts of mine to show people, and two miniatures. Two are on tour. So many of us give them away as gifts or donations. Or we quilt on other people's quilts and don't have those either. I have resolved after all this chat reading to sit down and enjoy finishing my favorite class project. So how about we have another Chat thread Mary Beth for one month from today, the 4th of September to post a finished project with pictures? If we don't get one done, then we need to wrap one up in a box with a ribbon and show a photo of the gift to someone. What do you think? Vicki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltjunkie Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Oh Bonnie, I know you were so teasing and so was I, in fact for future reference..almost 99.9% of what I say is in jest:D No offense taken here;) AND I still only have one project in process:o Except for the 35-40 quilts waiting to be quilted but those are customers projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted August 4, 2008 Report Share Posted August 4, 2008 Vickie, I LIKE your idea!! I need some PUSH!!!! Hester, wow.....35 customer quilts????!!!! Will I ever even see 1/2 of that?????!!!! WOW!! linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennan100 Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 I have about 6 unfinished tops, fabric for several more, just need to decide on a pattern, and several patterns I need to get the fabric for. Once I get the gfabric and patterns together I will happily wheel them down the sidewalk so that they can become official UFO's in my Mom's place. All because I just do not sew! Keeps us both happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachbobbinquilting Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 I'm easily distracted...what am I supposed to count? Oh UFOs.....let me tell you after I finish my latest project. Of course, I started this one before I finsihed the last one....and so it goes.... :cool::cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagecl Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Shelia...congrats on being down 3 projects!..only 107 to go:P:P I am working on my daughter's wedding quilt which is 2 years past her wedding and now a divorce quilt:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Sew Simple Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 Oh, it was so nice to read this and realize I am in good company!!! I was beginning to think I was ADD or something. I only have 4 incomplete but after our quilt show in Oct. and my Lenni comes in I plan to actually finish them. And just so you know, I am a bit suspicious about people who won't start another quilt until one is finished. Come to our show. It is the largest in Mississippi. We plan to hang more than 400 quilts. We have state, national, and international show winners in our guild. Oct. 10, 11, 12 in Hattiesburg, MS at the Lake Terrace Convention Center. We are the Pine Belt Quilters and we have a web site so you can check us out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramona-quilter Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 I like Vickie's idea, too. Nothing like a bit of competition to get the energy level up. I'm in. I have to quilt my Innovation's entry which has been sitting staring at me for several days. It is just hard to carve out "me" time.. Meet you on the forum in one month with my FINISHED project(s). WooHoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mskazooli Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 OMG, I have sooo many, toooo many to count, but Sheila has a SPREADSHEET?!? Wow, I'm impressed! The bar has been set. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anniquilter Posted August 5, 2008 Report Share Posted August 5, 2008 My Guild runs a UFO Challenge each year. At the start of the year (September) we sign up & select 8 UFO projects to complete that year - numbered 1 - 8. Each month we are told which number UFO to complete for next month. The 1st year I stood in my sewing room & just looked around to ID the 8 UFO's. By the time I had counted to 15 & not yet reached the boxes in my closet or the PIGS (Projects in grocery sacks)on the top shelf or counted the unquilted tops in my quilt studio I was too embarrassed to go any further! My mother only works on 1 project at a time. Why didn't I inherit that gene? Anne H Millie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liz2075 Posted August 6, 2008 Report Share Posted August 6, 2008 Hi all I have missed you all! And how many UFO's do I have? OMG I could start a quilt and have it done before I finished counting...so please forgive me while I pretend I'm only a bit more than slightly disorganized! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted August 17, 2008 Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 Just checking....... are you all working on finishing something??? I have 3 small ones down and a larger quilt (large lap quilt) is on the frame!! We only have a couple of weeks till the 4th of Sept... for show and tell!! Just thought I'd check in!!:):) linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted August 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 No one told me we were suppose to finish our projects who's idea was that?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBQLTN2 Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 I don't even want to think about it. Makes me crazy to count and always forget a few but last time I counted ufo's in various stages it was 16. that is the ones that I really intend to finish in this lifetime, there were quite a few more that I have about forgot about and probably will never finish as originally intended. they will either become smaller wall hangings or incorporate the finished blocks into something else or will get donated at silenty auctions for someone else to decide to finish or donate again. That gadget deal where you add items and send off to the next person could always include orphan blocks. Good way to whittle down your ufo's or get more for those unfortunate ones who have run out of projects, Yeah Right!!! Jeanne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boni Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 I don't have time to count them--I have a barn to paint this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Originally posted by Mary Beth No one told me we were suppose to finish our projects who's idea was that?? Yeah...me too, I want to know when that rule went into effect.....MY MEMO got lost on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg_marsh Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Ok - I am like everyone else - but I have made headway this year. First of all we moved into a smaller place so I have to be more careful about how much I can store. I also vowed to work through my stash - but you know how that is....... in order to finish something, you have to buy something - border, backing, whatever. Right now I have 10 quilts to be quilted - not planned - just what I made during recovery from a very serious back surgery & waiting for Miss Millie - since Miss Millie arrive, I have only made 2 more quilts and one is done, the other waiting to be quilted. Now for the quilts/projects in waiting (like ladies in waiting) - nothing cut, just everything nicely stored in 3 - got that? - just 3 drawers - waiting to be cut! I refuse to count. When the 3 drawers are full, then I have to stop shopping for awhile. So - I am actually feeling pretty good about the UFO's - I will never be caught up, but living in a smaller space had made me more careful about buying and storing................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollyrw Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 Well I have actually completed some UFOs this year, nine out of the eleven that I put on my list in January. NOTE: There are way more than 11, that's just what I put on the 2008 elimination list. Of course I have also added a couple UFOs too. I'll have to get some pictures taken for the Sept 4th show and tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmiequilts Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 PIGS!!!! omg TOO FUNNY!!!!:D:P:P:o I don't have time to count them all either plus there are the fabric 'groupings' from working at my LQS. A really nice fabric would come in and I'd choose seveal others to go with it to make a quilt "someday"! I am actually using one of those groupings for my almost DDIL who asked me to make a quilt for her grandmom. I love the idea of choosing 8 projects and having to show what we've finished each month, count me in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elkayr Posted August 18, 2008 Report Share Posted August 18, 2008 I have 2 tops finished ready to quilt. Another top that needs the borders. And one with the blocks done. When I first started quilting, I thought that I had to finish one before starting another one, mainly because as a newbie I was afraid that I would forget where I left off or forget how to do the pattern, etc. Now, I just get bored with working on the same thing so start working on something else. But now that I am getting a longarm, I'll have to finish something so that I can practice quilting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimmiequilts Posted August 20, 2008 Report Share Posted August 20, 2008 Anne H, I shared your post about the challenge and all of my friends jumped on it! We are now working out the details on the 'Finish your UFOs & PIGS Challenge', the Pennsylvania edition! Thanks for the idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocoholic Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Vicki, I like your idea of a contest. I have one of my UFOs almost done, just need to do the hand sewing on the binding and can do that in the car on the way to MN. When I am not driving, of course! But, alas, I won't be home to post a picture, unless.... I find a wi/fi some where to hook my computer to as I can/will take a picture when I am done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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