I have a problem. I suffer from chronic Un-Finished Object
syndrome. There are points in my life
where I get loads of projects – sewing or otherwise – done, finished and signed
off. However, there are also numerous
times where I don’t finish projects and they sit in a bag normally at the
bottom of my wardrobe or under my bed.
For as long as I have been making things, I have had this
problem. I start a project with gusto
then normal uncrafty life and work take over and the project is postponed. It’s not that I don’t want to finish them; it’s
that I just don’t have time. When I do
finally make time for them, something else comes up and I’ll end up making
something completely unrelated.
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Just to prove that I have carried on making it - A seam shot of Greg's gilet! |
Just to give you an example of my UFOs, obviously Greg’s Gilet has fallen by the wayside, and the Petticoats are in progress but will be
re-started (and finished) in September.
I don’t really want to say how long a project has gone unfinished for,
it’s a bit embarrassing, but I will tell you that the time scale is in years.
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I don't want to tell you when this was taken, or how long it took me to attach the second neck tie and actually sign it off as completed! |
These projects are still in progress and I do still
photograph my progress so eventually I can publish a post about them but I just
don’t share the photos as and when I work on them, maybe I ought to.
I try to only publish my completed works on my blog, as I
knew this UFO condition might occur.
Unfortunately, as a lot of the things I make require lots of little
stages (which could easily be put down and forgotten about) this means that I
don’t publish a blog post as often as I’d like.
Also, it means that when I have posted about plans and stages of
garments, they often won’t be re-visited for quite a long time (case in point:
Petticoats and Gilets).
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Putting together the seam on some petticoat net - Oh I did so much of that! |
Currently, I am in two minds as to whether I should only
post completed projects, and then allow them to be more sporadic, or whether I
should post about the smaller projects I do and risk the fact that they may go
unfinished for quite a while. Or maybe,
I should do a mix of the both!
This leads me on to how I really ought to get more connected
with mobile blogging. As I do a lot of
things, a lot of the time, I don’t feel like I often have much time to sit down
a really write a well thought out blog post. My solution to all of these problems is that I will start
doing more mobile posts (fillers, if you will). This means I can show you all
the different crafts I have been doing and then do a proper post on them once
they are completed. You’ll just have to
expect a delay from the first post to completion!
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