I was reading Bonjour Quilts blog today and I liked
what she said about UFOs. Some of the
things that are pointed out are:
There isn’t any rule that says YOU have to finish
them.
The final outcome doesn’t always have to be what the
UFO was first intended. Did that baby
grow out of the baby quilt size? Can you
add more rows to it. Did your quilting
Mojo go in hiding and you can’t stand to work on another full size quilt or
larger? Can you cut it back and make a baby
quilt or wall hanging out of it?
Basically, take stock of our UFOs and look at
them. REALLY look at them. Do you really want to finish that
project? “What’s the minimum effort
required to get it to a useful state?”
What great advice! What’s the
minimum effort required to get it to a useful state. I think it should be printed out, embroidered
or whatever and put where you can see it.
First of all, who doesn’t like minimum effort. We are all busy and don’t always have time to
do things. So rethink how you do
things. What HAS to be done to finish
the project. Does it need 3 borders? Maybe 1 would work? Do you need another quilt for the bed? Perhaps you can cut it down to make it a wall
hanging to go OVER the bed. Perhaps you
can redo it so that the one large quilt can be made into a couple of smaller
quilts so next time you get the “oh look who is having a baby”, you might
already have the quilt done.
Check out her post and see for yourself.
Perhaps 2019 can be the year we try to cut back on our
own stress as well as get UFOs finished.
That’s my goal. To cut back some
stress. I don’t have a lot of it but I
know that as I get closer and closer to retiring, my stress levels will go up. I will try to keep it to a manageable stage
which means I will have to do cross stitch and quilting.
I am doing pretty good so far. I am collecting some of the blocks from
various BOMs but not working on them.
That takes some of the stress out right there.
I will work on them when I will have time but I can’t
work on them unless I collect them. Did
that make sense? For instance. In order to get some UFOs finished, I am not
going to work on all the 2019 BOMs or BOWs that catch my eye. I might download them but won’t let myself
work on as many until I finish a UFO.
That means I have to start out making a list of my UFOs (shiver) as well
as a list of what NEW projects I would like to see done in 2019.
It’s a start. I’ll
work on that this weekend. I already
have a partial list but, to be honest, my UFO list was getting too long so I
stopped writing them down. Yes I know it
is called avoidance but you know what?
It works. LOL.
Everybody have a great day and I’ll post up a picture
of what Block 2 for Delft Blue in the next day.
That’s a weekly BOW so I will feel lucky if I get them cut out and fused
in a week. I know I can’t stitch that
fast.
Until next time,
Happy Stitching
1 comment:
You go girl. <3
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