Do you struggle with having loads of fun things stacked up? ME TOO!!
Today on my video I talk about how I got to this point and what I plan to do about it. Hope you can relate. Leave me a comment at Youtube!
- Mille's Dresses
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*** Mille's Dresses ***
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I'm working on my tulips and the Next one arrived, it's so darling!
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13 Responses
Dear Pat! You are really speaking to me! I want to do EVERY project you show us, but I had to stop and assess what my sewing room looked like and how many projects I have going. So I am going to try to finish some of them before starting any really big projects. You are doing amazing and I appreciate your honesty. Hugs to you!!
Whoo Boy!!! I’m exactly where you are at!! Everywhere I look I see project boxes staring back at me, and they are all full of UFO’s or kits I have put together but never have started. It’s time for me to take stock and make hard choices. And fabric… TOO MUCH FABRIC!! I need to take a deep breath and tackle it head on! At least I know I’m not alone. I’m staring 80 in the face in a couple of months, maybe that’s why I all of a sudden feel this way.
Pat,
Your own honesty today of what we get ourselves into with what we call hobbies hit home so well for me!!!! Yes, retired for 10years from nursing of 35yrs…. then start quilting more after retirement…………….. now I wake up trying to see how to juggle my real life with my quilting life!!!!!!!!!!!
I look at all the crazy UFO’s and how many ones are in progress now and then I hear you today and I heard it in your voice……What is it that I really what to do the rest of my life…..sew sew sew …I wish.
But reality hits with health problems, family, obligations, etc.
Thank you again for your down to earth honesty that even a expert like you is human too.
I found your website around the time you broke your wrists and ever since then I admire your beautiful attitude of how life can keep us in check of how we are not in control.
God’s in control.
Thanks again for today’s jolt!!!!!!!
Rachel P
Everything I see someone starting a new quilt project on YouTube, I jump in and join along. As of now, I have lost count of how many projects I have started and are at various stages. I need to stop the sew alongs and finish what I have started. They are not even in flimsy format. It is just pieces of projects in a bag or bin.I have lots that need to be quilted. I have started setting a goal of completely quilt to finish at least one quilt a month. I need to watch the sew alongs to learn new techniques, but not actually start the new sew along. I am like a squirrel chasing after a new acorn. I am excited until I start the new project, then when the next new project comes along, I put the old one up and start a new one. The next thing I know, I now have at least 75 projects started and none completed. Way too many incomplete projects stacked everywhere.
I reached a similar wall this year. For the last few years, I have been working on quilts that used up fabric I no longer wanted in my stash. Started with homespun fabrics, those are all gone in less than a year. Next up was Civil War fabrics, been slowly working on those for 3 years and it stops with 2024. In the middle of the CW effort, I started a use up the charity panels effort, over 120 quilts have gone to charity in about 17 months and there are still more that need done. I am also working on thinning out 30’s fabrics. I’m still sewing up all the project I cut to empty out 2 boxes of those. 2025 will start a new era of sewing up the fun fabrics and projects I have in my stash. Anything left from the previous efforts will be moved to back burners and maybe never get finished. Time will tell. I am so looking forward to 2025!
I appreciate your honesty on getting things done and prioritizing things. I have several things going at one time and bounce between them because I get bored quicklu or sometime just have to step away. I love your show! Thanks from the bottom of my heart!
You expressed perfectly what I’ve been needing to hear. Thank you, Pat. I just made a charity baby quilt top this weekend but I am thinking it is lopsided (I changed up the borders as I was putting it together) and am not pleased with the final look. But I’m not taking it apart. It will be quilted, bound and donated and some child will have a new quilt. “Done is better than perfect.”
I loved your “pile” analogy. Been there lots of times.
You’re just the best. Have a blessed day, my Friend.
You’re speaking my language today, Pat! So many projects and absolutely no time right now — post move — and living in a sea of boxes (how many of them are quilty stuff? 1/3? 1/2? — too many I’ll bet!). Once it’s all unpacked, then I can sort. In the meantime, I can be thinking about what I want to do. I should have time as we moved many counties away so no community ties yet. I will hole up in the new sewing space and sew, sew, sew! Thanks for a timely video!
Pat you are just like the rest of us. Recently we changed my sewing room flooring from carpet to wonderful new vinyl wood looking flooring. I am thrilled. I can sure scoot around now. š what an opportunity to clean out and start over. I have organized and decided what quilting projects I really want to do. I am a young 80 this year so I have to get going. I am so glad to know others feel the same about our hobby. I love it and hope I will be quilting for many years yet but will stop and think things over when it becomes overwhelming again and know I am among many friends. Thanks for all you do and sharing yourself with all of us. I have just started in cross stitch too. Oh Boy!!!!
I too have too many projects going. There are too many I want to do. I have recently prioritized and an only working on 3. There is just not enough hours in a day. I love your show and how you are not afraid to show you are human. I have been quilting for over 25 years and I still am learning. Thanks to you!
Love the Tulip Door Banner! I think I’m going to have to get this one! Thanks for always having a cheery video and newsletter!
this is so timely! I started to buy new project boxes and i put them back on the shelve and decided to clean out what i had no interest in finishing. Just starting with the boxes and then move on to bigger fish. Thanks for everything Pat. The companionship in our mutual passion is delightful and I look forward to it daily.
Been working on Millieās dresses. Just LOVE them, so cute! Iām addicted and want to keep making them but have so many projects and your words about change, scaling down and all did really hit home. A couple years ago I think thatās what caused me to shut down on sewing for 2 solid years. I would get to the door of my sewing room and turn away, not go in, I was in a deep āfunkā. I over-whelmed myself with sewing and quilting projects that one day I just quit! Then about 8 months ago our first great grandchild was born, she doesnāt know it, but she ignited my desire to sew. I first went in my sewing studio, not to sew, but to sort out my project life. And after that first week of sorting, stacking, deciding what I wanted to keep and what to set aside or part with, I thought āIām going to start with a small project for this new member of our familyā, and Iām back to sewing, but with breaks, and projects Iāve chosen to do AND FINISH, before I buy any more. I have printed off a few FREE projects, but I keep them in a box so I donāt go buy fabric too early!! Iām slowing my pace and enjoying the journey now!