Unfinished Object Challange

[Adriana Rose]

My totes are labled with masking tape lots cheaper right now. Maybe one of those things would be handy.

My skirts are calling me to finish them but at the same time my work stuff is stalking me too. I will get them done soonish

[gem]

Well, I pulled everything out today to start adapting the corset pattern for a side-back lacing kirtle...

...And discovered that apparently I'd done this before.   There was a boned mockup (complete with my temporary lacing strips!) in the project bin. WTH?

After staring at the thing for ages, I'm finally vaguely recalling this--my corset is a size 12 with a sizable gap in back, and I thought a size 14 (with a raised neckline) might work better as a dress, but it turned out to be WAY too big--but it *totally* threw me and had me completely confused, looking at the mockup & the pattern pieces for it, trying to figure out what I'd been thinking!! Ugh.  

So I made myself a new task list, and Item #1 was "Totally ignore whatever you tried to do before." Anyway, I ran out of time for this this morning and will have to come back to it later. I did discover that I wasn't as ready to start this project as I thought I was, at least, and still have some stuff to figure out, apparently!

I'd say, "Back to the drawing board," but I was *at* the drawing board, so I actually need the step *before* that! LOL

[LadyStitch]

Aint that the kicker, you go to do something on your to do list and find that you had already done it.  LOL 

[gem]

And it wasn't even a nice surprise, like discovering you did a load of laundry or made a dentist appointment you'd forgotten doing... this was a confusing, befuddling, "what was I thinking, and should I *still* be thinking that???" mess. Sigh.

However, I did manage to get the sewing table cleared off. The ornament is not made, but I have room to work now. So that's a start. I'll have another go at that pattern tomorrow.

[LadyStitch]

I started an over haul on the sewing room, and right now my sewing table is buried under a pile of stuff to have a proper home. 

It's funny, since I started thsi challange it has gotten the PP to finish his UFO's around the house. I finally have painted walls in the living room, and other things fixed. YAY!

What I want to know is how is it that a UFO that was completely FUBAR'd , so I started all over and re-did it.  I have gotten more done on it in the past 2 weeks, than I did on the original 10 years ago.

[Anna Iram]

I have a handful of half finished projects. A gown that wants a new front closure, trim and sleeves, and maybe a hat to match, yards of hankerchief linen that wants to be a chemise for a gown that I can't find quite the right fabric for, and a handful of other things that aren't quite ready to come together.


Not doing anything until I give my machine some TLC. Been working on some projects around the house and she needs a good cleaning and oiling. So I guess that's #1 on my list. Been going through the stash and deciding what needs to be passed along as well. So that's #2. Then maybe the garb muse will return to bless me.

[LadyStitch]

Finding a new home for stash fabric that has been buried too long is always a good thing to get of the UFO list.  Just remember, the more UFO's out the door the more new and wonderful stuff can come in.

[gem]

Huzzah! The new pattern is drafted. It has not been *tested,* but I have recovered from Tuesday's confusion and managed (sort of) to get Task #1 completed the first week. My class starts tomorrow, so I hope to get the mockup cut out, assembled, and fitted then. If I'm incredibly inspired and energetic tomorrow beforehand, I might cut the mockup pieces out.

But anyway, the first step is done (I hope!)!

[Hoowil]

I think I have more unstarted projects than unfinished. Entire bins of fabric that never even got cut. Half of it I can't even remember what it was meant for. I guess the kids' new stuff this year will be stash built.

[Kate XXXXXX]

I have lots of fabric like that...

[Butch]

My UFOs:
1.  Cloak for my son
2.  Cloak for myself
3.  New shirt for my son, using the blackwork linen for sleeves
4.  New doublet for my son
5.  Pants for my dau
6.  THEN, I want to make two circa 1799 US Marine uniforms fof both my son and myself.

Got the gores cut out for both cloaks.  My son's were 8 gores, mine were 16.  I just finished this morning sewing my son's gores together.  Simply beautiful!  A full circle cloak is gorgeous!  Gotta let it hang to get the proper stretch before cutting the bottom hem.  He has to decide if he wants a collar or a hood.  Then, will dye it a dark green (what he wants).  Used Italian wool Army blankets for these.  HEAVY!

[Lady Rebecca]

Since my stays are driving me absolutely crazy with how tedious the binding is, I've decided to force myself to do at least one tab/day. That way, within a month or so, maybe I'll actually finish it.

[LadyStitch]

Butch, those cloaks will keep them warm for sure.  They sound snuggly. 
Lady Rebecca:  Just doing a little bit each day will get it done.  The point is getting it done, it might take a while as you slog through but the fact you are actually DOING something each day is a big dent in the project.

The PP has volenteered me to help him with his long over do 'honey do' and his house  UFO projects. However , between coats of paint, and helping him change in 'guts' of the guest toilet (Which btw we are never going to do ourselves again!)  I managed to sort through 3 boxes/ bags of scraps, and put them in their colored bins.  I how have a white/off white fabric bin, a black/grey/ brown bin, a blue/green/ purple bin, and I have a yellow/orange/red pink bin.  I'm thinking i may have to make a specific red/pink bin.  Who knew making all that pink stuff for the PP I would aquire THAT much pink and red fabric scraps!  I actually now have a floor!

I have one table, and the dreaded closet of over flowing things to do but, it actually is starting to look like a proper sewing room.

[Lady Rebecca]

How big does a scrap have to be before you decide to keep it? I often feel like I'm hoarding tons of tiny, odd-shaped pieces of fabric...

[gem]

I keep my scraps for the season in whatever receptacle was handy at the time, and then I stash it in my closet for a year or so. Then when I'm feeling low on space I'll pull out the bag/box/whatever and sort through. Any scrap big enough for serving as a test swatch is carefully folded and and put away again in the master scrap bag. Everything else I toss. But it takes me a long time to disconnect myself from the fabric enough to throw it away. I wish there were an easy way for consumers to recycle fabric (industrially they can grind it up and use it again, but I don't know how you'd get your scraps to those people!).

There's a long thread (7+ pages!) on Pattern Review about rehoming usable scraps through Craigslist, etc--apparently schools, Girl Scout troops, senior centers, charity quilting clubs, etc always need scraps for craft projects.

Worked on the mockup for the purple kirtle all day yesterday. Tonight's my first class at my sewing studio, and I hope to fine-tune the fit/pattern so I can spend this week getting the guts (boned canvas interlining) put together.

On my own organizational front, this weekend I pulled everything out of the closet with the goal of getting everything back IN the closet in a more organized, usable way (right now to get to anything, I have to pull EVERYTHING out). Unfortunately, I got completely overwhelmed when I realized that wouldn't be possible the way things stand at the moment. So I have a new goal: Just get everything but what I currently need back in the closet, and readdress in the future.