Look!
Up in the Sky!
It is a plane? Is it a satellite? Is it a Unfinished Fabric Object?
And, just what is a UFO (in the quilting world)?
Now, I have at least 7 or 8 projects in my quilting queue. They are neatly stacked and/or still in their packages. I haven't started them, although I look at them a lot. Are these considered UFOs?
Or, are UFOs projects started, but put aside for a while? And, what length of time makes them UFOs?
I have one quilt that has been sitting in my office for 6 weeks waiting to have the binding hand stitched on. I just finished up the binding on another quilt last night, so I will start on this quilt tonight. Was that considered a UFO, even though it wasn't put aside for long - just waiting its turn?
I'm confused!
I'm trying to do my projects in the order that I purchased them (or the fabric). My Friendship Star fabric was purchased last fall, but I am now plugging away at it. Then comes the Broken Dishes wall hanging, then my dragonfly king sized quilt (in between someplace a lap quilt for my nephew), then the 1930s quilt, then a "shoe" wall hanging, then one other quilt I can't remember, then a big block quilt, then an Irish Chain queen for my great nephew, then a twin size patch, then. . . . .
I'll be throwing in some quick projects, too, since most of these are large quilts and I will need some immediate gratification.
Are all of these UFOs?
After reading a lot of quilting blogs UFOs get mentioned a lot. I really don't want to have too many sitting around. However, is it just part of quilting?
Help!
P.S. I forgot to mention the 2 block of the month (BOMs) I started. Yikes! Who has time to work?
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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4 comments:
Your projects sound like fun. None of us quilters should have to work, there is too much wonderful quilting to do :-).
Haha! You've been quilting long enough now! I define a UFO as something that has been put away and left unfinished for an undetermined amount of time.
A Work in Progress is anything you've put to the side to work on another project. A work in progress is something that just stays out in my sewing room.
I really don't count hand binding as much because that's something you just always work on when you have time.
So then all of my projects in queue are just "wanna be's?"
LOL
JA - It is so much fun to read about your projects! Ah, I wish I had any spare time to sew or bead these days...
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