You may or may not be aware that I am the proud curator of The List! I have a bullet journal, which I couldn't live without - it's what makes me productive and stops me forgetting things. Most things. And in that bullet journal is The List.
The List is a list of all of my current Works in Progress (WIPs). As the start of the year I had over 120 WIPs. I have certain friends, hereafter referred to as The Committee, who believe that 120 items is too many. The problem is that I am a sucker for a sew-along, and go bananas for a block of the month, and there are just so many good ones out there. And the start of the year is a bad time - everyone has new projects and I sign up for them. If you follow my blog regularly, you will be aware that I do also finish a fair few projects, but the ratio is generally to start more than I finish in any given month.
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| The Splendid Sampler. I've made lots of blocks, but not enough, and I'm not sure of a setting |
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| Down The Rabbbit Hole: held up by the thought of all that applique, but back out and experiencing some progress |
The List has long term projects on it: the earliest dates back to 2011 (if not earlier): that's my Vignette quilt. It's still on the list because I still love it and one day I would like to finish it. Other projects of a similar age have fallen off the list as I have fallen out of love with them and disposed of them in various ways. But the odd one remains. And the likelihood is that it isn't going anywhere soon.
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| My La Passacaglia quilt: very much still loved, but not added to in some time. |
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| A double Wedding Ring Quilt, all cut out... |
Then there are the ones I haven't started yet. They still count as a Work In Progress because they are needed in the near future. This part of the list includes things like an advent calendar for Joshua - I haven't started it yet, but need to soon to get it finished in time for December.
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| My original City Sampler which was I made whilst pregnant with Mia: I love the dense quilting, but with no deadline, it always gets pushed to the back of the queue. |
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| Delilah... but hand piecing just wasn't doing it for me, so changed to sewing machine... but I still have to fight the templates |
And in between are all the beautiful projects I continue to work on. Some slowly some fast! Earlier this year I had a serious review of the list. I removed some of those unstarted items that had sat on the list for a long time and remained unstarted. They've been moved to a bucket list, and I'm sure that gradually things will be moved from one list to the other. I also thought about projects that hadn't been touched for a long time and decided what to do with them if I didn't really love them anymore. One large project, for which I made only 5 of the required 20 blocks, was ditched. The blocks will be pouches and the project will be ticked off.
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| This quilt is a wedding present. It's their fifth anniversary this year. The sashing has put me off... |
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| This needs quilting, but it's big and scary! And I'm worried I can't achieve what I would like to achieve |
And of course, I've finished a fair few projects since the start of the year as well!
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| One of my many, many EPP projects. This doesn't have a purpose, so hasn't seen much progress. |
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| I've accepted this won't ever be the full quilt. Now I need to finish it as a cushion... |
So drumroll please! The current status of the list is.... 90 WIPs! Did I mention that that figure includes two new items just from this week? Just don't tell The Committee!
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Also, The Committee are concerned that The Bucket List is merely a way of artificially keeping The List figure 'low' (on the special Jennie scale) and require more information. They also want to know about the two new items...