March Memeness: all I wanna do (is quilt)

[tielan]

Is there a pattern you want to do but haven't done yet, and why? asks beatrice_otter



Just a few. :D

These are the patterns I've bought and which I haven't yet made! (Wait, no, I lie. The Technicolor Galaxy I have made and it's in my icon.)

Mostly what holds me back? Time and that thing where you're too intimidated by a project to start it. Not to mention all the other projects that I still have half-done and feel like I should finish (but don't always get around to doing).

There's always patterns on Pinterest that I see and like. There are clever designs that catch my eye and things that I want to create and simply don't have the time to do.

Also, the part of my brain that claims that doing any of this is a Significant Time Investment (when mostly, it's just a steady 15 minutes a day, or even an hour. I can actually manage that, it's just that I tend to procrastinate until I'm out of time).

Comments

[adafrog]

Cool patterns.

[timespirt]

Those are pretty nice patterns.

[jenab]

Those are some lovely patterns. I especially love the colours in the Technicolor Galaxy quilt.

I struggle with my crochet with some of the issues you talked about that holds you back.

[james]

I started getting so much more quilting done when I made myself stop after each segment of the process was done. Like, "pick out fabrics, make sure they're ironed, etc,' is one full step. 'Cut fabric' then stop. Then make 2-5 blocks depending on how complicated, and so on. Even if I still have time, I stop and take at least a short break before going to the next. My brain learned that no, I don't have to finish the quilt as soon as I start it, and it lets me actually start big projects because I'm not doing the big project, I'm doing this one small project that is one small step of a quilt.

That is not to say I don't also have a stack of patterns I have yet to make, and still want to. ;-) So many patterns, and so many bundles of fabrics put together for a particular quilt I want to make and intend to make and I will get to it very soon now.

[tielan]

That's a good plan - stages of quilt.

I think I need to do a few scrap quilts and then start on the multitude of fabric collections that I've acquired over the last 15 years...