Do you have any UFO's (unfinished projects)?

[frustratedmom]

Just sorting through and have discovered a very large pile of UFO's (unfinished objects) and usp's (unstarted projects). Is this just me or is it all crafters?

I get bored half way through a lot of projects, so put them to one side. Sometimes I pick them up again.

I have no UFO's.

Not because I finish every project before starting a new one, but because I threw all UFO's out 2 months ago in a fit of honesty that I will never finish them.

I felt liberated, I tell ya!

Now I have a "only one project on the go" rule because I never again want to waste materials/money/time/effort on UFO's ever again.

In honesty I am not sure that my planned UFO will even get touched in this 2 week period.

Life has overtaken me and my list of to do things has exploded and that is for normal everyday life. It is a pain but at some point I have to get on top of life rather then running to catch up all the time. So the first UFO to be tackled is spring cleaning (its been an ongoing project since we moved bedrooms around at the beginning of January and NEVER ENDING . Maybe then the UFO list will even feature on the TO DO list.

I have just gone through all my UFOs and USPs - I went through critically and asked myself if I am ever really going to do them. I was stunned how much had accumulated in boxes under the bed and bags in the spare room.

I have given 3 new x-stitch kits to the local charity shop, donated odd balls of wool to the local church (they have a group that makes baby clothes/blankets etc to send overseas) and freecycled/given to charity shop a load of old patterns. As you said above, it is liberating.

I still have 25 projects altogether but I have listed them in my diary, and I have optimistically put a folder on my Facebook photos page called "finished projects". I will not buy anything else. Honestly. Well, maybe ...

Just remembered this thread.

There is no hope for me at all - since it started I have bought 3 new lots of yarn!

1 for crocheting - I seem to be making a large blanket. Not what I intended but I have just taught myself to crochet and now I have the knack I thought I might just keep making hexagons but then I didn't have enough wool. Oh dear.

2 packets of yarn to make a cardigan. I need a white cardie and decided I would make one rather than hunt around the shops. Unfortunately some lovely yellow caught my eye and now I have that as well as I thought the cardie might look nice in yellow too - very summery.

That wasn't the aim was it?

And it is the National Quilt Championships at Sandown Park in a week and my mum is making me go!! You can't go to these things and leave empty handed, you just can't!

And I haven't finished my chunky cardie I was meant to finish in the last 2 weeks.

I have a terrible list

• first knitted Circus mouse (of 12!) still needs finishing
• pair of booties
• one large quilt needs the binding stitching down
• applique quilt top needs finishing
• pair of dungarees (that were the trial for the real pair)for DD needs poppas attaching
• USP - clothkits skirt for me needs starting
• various beaded bracelet kits in stages
• beautiful cross stitch bell pull is about 1/6 done
• USP - the real dungarees in the expensive fabric

I think there's a good two years' work in the bell pull alone... But this weekend I am dtermined to finish the dungarees!
I don't know why these things languish - I hhave at least an hour in the evening I could use but tend to loll on the sofa...

Please join us on the "unfinished projects we are going to finish" thread. See further down the list...

Niecie - is there a website with the details of the national quilt show? Have an aunt who would love it.

the answer is "hell yes" i have dozens of WIP's - i love starting new things but get bored very easily -
i have a patchwork teddybear i started for my cousin's baby - she is 18yrs old next month!

my daughter's knitted baby blanket is still in seperate squares - she is 15yrs old in October!

yep i have "big ideas" but don't have the stamina to finish things!

i've found that joining in craft swaps has really helped me in this respect as someone is avidly waiting for their parcel so the guilt pushes me on!

I have so many cross-stitch usps that it will take me forever to get through them. Yet it is strangely addictive to collect more and more kits, like the magic porridge pot - only not.

As for ufos, well I doggedly carry on until the bloody thing is finished before starting something else. Although I do have one piece that I stopped at before I had to do the monkey because I don't like monkeys in general. Yes, that was my genuine reason.

oneforward - sorry didn't see this sooner.

A Link to the Quilt Championships

It's a good day out although it is a bit of a scrum at the beginning of the day. You are best off going to the back and looking at the quilts rather than trying to see anything on the stalls as you go in.

swanriver - I might just join you!

Thanks Niecie.

Sooner? I only posted it last night You were very quick really.

Don't think my aunt will be able to go this year -she works in a school and as they school has just had their kitchen condemed, half the school condemed until fumigated and she is the deputy head/acting head I think she has her hands full. But one of her best friends is leading the field on patch work and quilting in Norway and will love the information. I see a girl holiday coming up next year.

I have a cross-stitch project that is about 2/5ths done and I've had for about 10 years.

I've also got a jumper that I'm making for DS1. I started it in february and only have the sleeves to sew in and I just can't make myself do it! It probably won't fit by autumn.

My head just gets turned by new yarn and new projects and I have to start them right away. I've actually stopped going to the yarn shop until I've knitted up my entire stash (3 large storage boxes at the last check)

I had to make a rule that I can't start a new project till I've finished the current one. Its worked for me.

I am looking at a lovely embroidered alphabet that I did on and off for.... 12 years!! but I finished it in the end.

Then I started another huge and complicated x stitch just before having 2 children in 16m so its still half done 6 years on. In which time I've started to need reading glasses so I can hardly see the thing the stitches are so small.

Debating whether to put it on ebay as half done project with all the materials!

Also have 2 large storage boxes of yarn but I buy good quality vintage stuff from ebay then knit up when I get an inspiring pattern.