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  1. Hello, Joy! I have recently found you, after a desperate Google search about finishing UFOs. I am your fan for life, here in the eastern USA! I have taken a leaf from your book and am hunting down all of my UFOs (by type: quilting, cross stitch, etc.) and numbering them. I feel better already…and am making a little progress. A friend of mine said that she is adopting a “Finish Two, Start One” policy: when she finishes two UFOs, she will start a brand-new project. Perhaps your goal for this year could involve a bit of “carrot at the end of the stick”—perhaps you could make a list of projects that you’d love to start! For me, interspersing small, easily finished projects with larger ones will, I hope, keep me motivated. I do plan to start a few new ones, but I’m not sure how many UFOs to do before I feel I “deserve” that! 🙂 Please accept my best wishes for your move, and thank you for your wonderful blog. How long will you be in Arabia? Salaam aleikum!

  2. Now when we talked last week, you told me about a challenge. Is it that you need help with your goals, because I was hoping you were going to issue me with one. I like the idea of finish 2 and maybe start 1, as above, but I really need to sort out where I even want to start. Quilting, piecing, book & patterns to publish, crochet, knitting, garden, paperwork, try pyrography? HELP!!!!!
    Hope the weekend is going well & take care.

  3. I thought I had a lot of unfinished projects, but you beat me. Can’t finish my own, so not much help to you. If you want to try your machine stitches, read my blog today.

  4. My mind is boggled. I can’t even think of a response to this. I usually have several projects in various states of completion, so I can have a choice of machine piecing, hand work/applique/embroidery, and maybe binding to choose from when I have time to sew. When I updated my list this year, there were 12 UFO’s. Knowing how few there were really motivated me to jump in and finish them. One is now ready to be quilted, and another is getting its borders today. Good Luck!!

  5. Oh do find some more…. if you get to 120 you will have double what I have and that would be fun!!! Just pick one up and do it without stressing about a time frame is what I am doing. I’d like to do one a week but that won’t happen because I have new projects to do so that I can have some more UFO’s for next year…. WE like to live on the edge???
    Hugz

  6. Hee hee hee hee hee 216 hee hee hee hee hee hee!! I know I am missing a couple of tubs of them somewhere because I do not have near enough with the 78 that I written down. I also need to join you on the learning to use my embroidery module since hubby gave me 2 awesome quilt patterns for Christmas. I need to take pictures of those. I need to finish at least one present per month and something month and hopefully 2. That would be 24 a year????? Ugh!!

  7. go for it you can finish 216………I know you can………..thats less then 1.5 days to get something finished………any January is already gone………hurry hurry……..
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    actually I think you should commit to the 17 in 2017 and if you get more done great but atleast it will be under the 200 count…………………..well that is if you don’t start more UFO’s………….

    hope the docs are all sorted asap so you can go overseas ASAP

  8. Good on you making a list of your UFOs, I would have given up much sooner – I hope you have a lot of fun working through some of them this year – can you combine the ufos with your other goals like using your machine stitches, etc? Hope your paperwork goes through troublefree!

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