I have a project in every car and every room. Yes even the bathroom. It is the project of picking out the next project. If I see a pattern or a fabric I like I put it in the bathroom and look at it while I bath and get ready or what ever else. Plus that is the room with the best light usually (you know vanitity) Right now my problem is all my projects are stalled due to a broken machine. This is very frustrating by the way. I did try a new Babylock the other day. I can say on that machine I just might learn to like applique.

I'm embarassed to say how many things I have in progress, but I'll tell how I keep track.

I keep a little notebook and different pages list:

Quilts to finish (bind and label)
Quilt tops to quilt
Quilts in progess (piecing or applique)
Quilts in the planning stages (collecting fabrics)
Quilts to do someday

It's exciting to cross things off or add them to a different page.

I also recently made my "bucket list" with things I want to do in life such as whale watch, see the Grand Canyon, ride a horse on a beach, etc.

Windy and wet today on Mother's Day! nancy

I'm really interested in seeing everyone's answers. I thought I was getting too many going at once, but I see I fit right in. I tend to work from start to finish on quilts, but I have several going at once for various reasons.

I have three quilt tops in process, one finished and ready to be quilted (by my daughter-in-law), about 3 that I'm "assembling". By this I mean I've done the big picture design work and am working on the individual design items--such as embroidery designs--needed for it and gathering the pieces. Then there are the other 50 or more that I have actually put on an ongoing, ever growing list....probably about 7 actually in process then, and more than 50 in mind.

Gee, now that you mention it, I don't have time to go to work this week. I guess I'll have to call in and tell my boss I can't come to work, I'm too BIZZY! (Ha, just dreaming of course--I DO have to pay my power bill and house payment so I can keep on quilting). Hee hee hee.

Cheers. Betty Jo

Keith,
You should look at the APQS George machine. It's a sit down longarm-you quilt just like on a domestic machine. You can stll touch the fabric and have a larger throat space!
eileenkny

Hi Marsha! I do all my own quilting - except when my little sister quilts something for me and I quilt something for her. I learned to quilt on a short arm domestic Singer 20 years ago. 19 years ago I got a Bernina 900, then a 1000, and now I quilt on a 440.

I drive longarm machines every chance I get, and, for me, it just doesn't feel right... Maybe I haven't tried enough to get used to it. But I quilt partly because I like to touch the fabric.

My machine is recessed into a table, I use two other tables, and I "puddle". I guess I kind of look like you quilting...

I thought recently about sending some of my tops out, but I just couldn't do it. Partly because of the cost, partly because I can be a control freak, and partly because my quilts are my own personal little world.

Still, there are so many great professional quilters out there and they do great work...

Keith, you sound very busy. I'm curious...do you do your own quilting and if so on what machine? Or do you hand quilt? I have tops piling up and it gets just too expensive to have someone else do it.
Marsha

I'm tired. I quilted until midnight tonight. At least in part because of this thread... I like to have multiple projects at multiple stages so I can do whatever I want whenever I want. Plan or cut or piece or applique or set blocks or quilt or bind... However, while reading about everyone's projects, and thinking about mine, I realized I seem to have a backlog of unquilted or partially quilted tops.

I have partially quilted: an applique quilt I'm calling Apostrophe Pops, a 16 patch made from most Rowan fabrics, a monkey wrench, a holiday Irish chain, and a miniature compass wall hanging.

I have finished tops: my Christmas Crossing, a scrap card trick, another holiday Irish chain, a lone star variation, a pineapple, and an African star thing.

I need to spend some time quilting!!! Maybe I'll go quilt for another hour before I go to bed. Doubt it.

My only projects that aren't finished tops now are my 2009 BOM, a black and white Dresden plate, and a Kumiko Sudo Magnolia.

I guess I have lots of learning projects that aren't real projects, just learned-from UFOs. They might make it into something or, Like Nancy, someone someday who has more days on this planet than I do will get to try to figure them out... And probably wonder what in the world was I thinking...

Before joining a quilt guild and TQS, I was the type to start a project and complete a project, one at a time. Now, I have so much inspiration and so many ideas of things that I want to try. I erroneously thought that I'd have lots of free time in retirement. It really concerns me that I might not get everything, that I've started, completed. I do not have any family members that would know what to do with all of my quilting stuff.

God blessed me with lots of nieces, who I've tried to get interested in sewing and quilting, but no luck so far.

I like to rescue beautiful antique and vintage quilt tops that I suppose came from someone much like me. Unfortunately, I haven't quilted any of them yet because I've been too busy quilting my own quilts. I've got at least ten completed quilt tops that need quilting and about ten sets of Baker's Dozen blocks that need to be assembled into a quilt. Lots of orphan quilt blocks--some vintage. I won't talk about my unfinished crochet and clothing projects, because it's too painful to think about them.

Eileen, I've been drawn to the "Pick and Choose" pattern, too!!! Haven't started it yet and wondering how to get all those fat quarters and fabrics, plus cutting all those scraps. I am buried this year with projects in progress, so this will probably one of my 2010 projects. Considering how I can arrange for a Cut-and-Swap with friends to expand my "stash" selection for this one. Would you be interested in doing that? Email me from my profile if you might. We can work out the details.

Okay, I'm going to attempt this as much as I can remember.
1. Beth Ferrier 2009 BOM-first 2 months done; have to do 28 roses. I'm doing it completely out of my stash!
2. art quilt-I've lost some enthusiasm but it'll come back
3. lap quilt for DD's friend who's graduating from college-have to quilt and bind by 5/30!
4. Scrap quilt that grabbed me in AP&Q called Pick and Choose.
5. Mini applique UFO that has become a WIP.
6. Shoebox swap-one more month to do then we put them together.
7. DIL's great-grandmother's top to be quilted for her.
8. Quilted Diamonds-ongoing hand piecing
9. Piece O'Cake wall quilt-finish last block, quilt and bind.

I have to stop. I'm making myself crazy :shock:

I have found keeping a to do list on my white board is keeping me focused on getting projects done. The problem is going to shows and getting inspired to new things, when you still have things to do!
Maggie in E. Central Illinois

I like to work on a project from start to finish but sometimes I get ideas while I'm in the middle of something and I find myself checking my stash for fabric or going to the store if I don't have what I need and my current project gets put on hold. I've been wanting to make a new to do list for awhile and this post encouraged me to do so. I found 20 mostly small projects that are close to completion, just needing borders, binding, or quilting. Then I found another 12 in various stages of completion. I don't dare make a list of the quilts I want to make some day until I get some of these others behind me.
1 - Bonus Quilt from Flying Geese Blocks
2 - 2009 TQS BOM King size
3 - 2009 TQS BOM Lap size
4 - 2008 TQS BOM
5 - Scrappy Pineapple, partially pieced
6 - Star Quilt, sample block made and strips cut
7 - Donation Quilt, blocks pieced
8 - Judy Niemeyer Indian Summer, blocks pieced
9 - Americana Sampler, block units pieced
10 - Paper Pieced Log Cabin, sample blocks made
11 - State Birds & Flowers, blocks pieced, needs birds appliqued
on alternate blocks
12 - Grandmother's Flower Garden, my oldest quilt with pieces cut using a paper template that I recently unsewed and plan to recut with a hexagon ruler. They may become the back side of a reversible quilt if I use the technique as originally planned.

I do not think you want to know my list of quilt projects being worked on. I do not think I can come up with a good list either. I know I generally work on more then one project at the time.

Right now I am working on TQS 2009 BOM, my Dear Jane quilt, a two fabric applique wall hanging, and working on getting a new one starting, I have the pattern, but want to see how many more blocks I would have to make to make it King size instead of queen size, while waiting for the fabric for the borders for it. I also have a red work "12 Days of Christmas" that I have some more hand quilting to do. and so on and so on.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Upstairs in my sewing room is fairly good as I really only have an Alex Neutral under way.

Upstairs in my head however... you don't want to go there!

I did do all my major sewing when my kids were little, probably why both son and daughter can sew quite well, and it was interesting times but this mum always had something for the school fetes to donate.

Now? Semi retired and starting again but seem to have less time!! Why is that? I really must get started on somethings! Maybe that new machine that's coming soon.......


Amo
UK