I'm looking for shortcut ways to finish ufos.
If you find a way, PLEASE tell me!!!
... and why the projects become ufos in the first place.
I just can make a list of some of my UFOs and how it came to them...
2016 - Birthday Block Swap 1st: Collected blocks, collected fabric, I want(ed) to make a perfect quilt (I love the chosen subject), but up to now, I have no perfect plan.
2017 - Birthday Block Swap 2nd: I collected the blocks, but the size and the numbers of them does not fit in any way into my sewing-style. I have no idea, what to do with them...
2014 - Star BOM: I liked just some stars, I sewed them. I have re-arranged the original layout, now I have to sew more stars. But I changed sewing machine, so I need to re-calculate the seam allowance for all the destructions
I would have already thrown this out, if I hadn't loved the (huge amount of) background fabric so much
2019 - Temperature Quilt: Time was little, I didn't keep in time, lost motivation, when I found it again, I ran out of fabric
I hope to get some fabric before summer and to finish it before christmas.
2018/2019 - @Iminei 's Mystery quilt: I mixed up 2 fabrics and sewn a punch of blocks wrong, lost my motivation
Found it again last autumn and corrected everything
Now I have got all the blocks, which were originally planned, but now I see that I have made the wrong colour choice (much toooooo dark and depressive). But the fabrics were too expensive to throw everything away, so I try to finish it this year while attending our (monthly) sewing group. Let's see, how far I can get...
2013 - Santa Claus' Village: I love and have sewn the most blocks, when it came to Santa Claus itself I stopped. Here in Austria we have no Santa,... so what to do now? It's not Christmas time and don't want to sew something for this time NOW....
2017 - Rainbow fish Quilt: I loved the fabrics and had never an idea what to do with them. Sold the whole punch of it this weekend for a good price
2016 - "Quilt around the world" Block Swap: Got the blocks, didn't like most of them. Thrown to UFO Box, gave them away this weekend (see below)
2015 - Hexagon-hand-sewing-flowers: I started this project, calculated much toooo big, found out that I hate hand-sewing. After 2 years waiting in the UFO-Box, they left our flat this weekend (see below)
2019 - Star Trek BOM: I have collected all the destructions, bought A LOT of Star Trek fabrics
But I hate paper piecing
That's a little desaster....
As I already said,.... luckily I got to know a very nice lady, who is doing a lot of sewing for charity reasons. And she was very pleased to get some of my UFO's, which are/were always well organised with all destructions and descriptions and requested fabrics. She is happy to finish them and make something nice out of them.
That makes me feel a lot better. I also gave her a lot of my unwanted fabrics, because I need the space for other stuff