Not that I’m any better at thinking on Thursdays than I am any other day of the week — I just needed a title for this post! So, some thoughts to share:
Thought #1: Since yesterday was my 1st blogiversary, and earlier today I reached 40,000 visits to my site, I’ve decided to do a double give-away next week! Doesn’t that sound like fun? I thought so.
Thought #2: We all have them: UFOs, PIGs, PhDs, BOBs. Okay, I know of a couple of people in this universe who start a project and continue straight to completion before starting anything new. Then there are the rest of us.
After being laid up for a while with a bum wrist, followed by a little R&R in Texas, immediately followed by DH’s surgery and recovery, I’m really feeling the pressure of so many Projects half Done. I’ve been sewing like a mad woman locked in a Janome factory trying to finish up these PhDs, and I am making progress. There seem to be a lot of us in the same boat, and once a project makes it into my closet (or where ever PhDs go to die at your house), it’s so hard to get excited about it again.
For our Wednesday stitching group, Pam B. and I put together a six-month program for our group. It is a PhD program whereby you select a PhD from your closet, under your bed, in the attic, that is truly approximately half done (and something significant — not a hot pad), and you have six months to complete it. We are starting it in June when we have to bring our projects in to be documented by photograph, and we will celebrate with a graduation ceremony in December when we all bring our completed projects and accept our lovely PhD certificates (suitable for framing, of course).
A long time getting here, but here’s my thought: Could we make this work on line? Obviously we won’t be “in person”, but perhaps use Mr. Linky once a week to link back to posts on various participants’ sites? An award to the oldest PhD completed? An encouragement to repurpose something started that you really dislike (or HATE) and make something else out of it? So what are your Thursday Thoughts?
Sue
yes, count me in! It will force me to rootle around in the closet and cupboard!
Hmmmmm Believe it or not most of my PHDs aren’t quilt related since I’m a relative newbie at this and my quilt projects are waiting to be sent to a quilter so they don’t count I guess. So my only possible contribution to this would be finally working on kits that I seem to be accumulating in my dresser drawer waiting to be started!
What a fun idea! And I have a couple of likely candidates to choose from. Though I have more projects that are just missing the border or so.
Count me in, as well. I work better under deadlines! But…. does half-done = not yet a top?
Sounds like fun…I have lots of those projects.
By the way, what’s a BOB and a PIG (project in ??)? I use “WIP” or works in progress and then finished goods, but I am an accountant!
Liz
I like how you keep track of yardage!!!
As for the PHD–I found out at Paducah that their community college offers online course work in quilting education–I think up through a doctorate. I talked to the VP of the college, asking about who taught these classes. He stated that they were from all over the country and that some of them were working toward certification that present moment by taking classes at the quilt show. Had I only known… I will locate the paper work he gave me and make a point of bringing it to Daystitchers next week. Something to strive for. Take care. Joan