So many projects, so little time

Problem? I think all of us go through these stages of starting and then temporarily putting aside a project to start a new and more exciting project. Of course temporarily can mean months or even years...lol and yes, I have a few works-in-progress (that's what I like to call them) like a sweater I was knitting for my niece... she's now outgrown the the size that I was knitting, so I now have a work-in-progress sweater for another new-born...maybe my niece's daughter? At least that will give me more than a decade to finish the project. Problem? No problem here...sssssh, don't tell anyone

Problem? What problem? I get bored with one thing and either get a bright idea and move on, or I see something someone else is doing and I want to try it. Right now my main passion is beadwoven jewelry. I can't tell you how many unfinished pieces I have, or how many I have that simply aren't right and need to be done over. Not to mention all those totes and clutches started from plastic bag yarn, and the list goes on and on. One thing that saved me earlier in my life was that I moved around a lot. Had to let go of some of the "stuff". I haven't moved in 17 years now, so I'm being over run with "projects". Welcome to the club! And welcome to myLot.

Oh yes, I know this problem very well indeed. I think most creative people find it hard to stick to just one project, and I know my biggest problem is that as I work on one thing it inspires me to start designing something else. of course, with all the wonderful crafting sites like Ravelry, its even worse, because we are surrounded by wonderful inspiring projects and ideas from other people as well. I also have a whole room full of crafting supplies, and although I am constantly using them, I also seem to be constantly acquiring new materials too. I joke that I need a wealthy patron who will pay me to stay home and be creative, I'm sure if I didn't have to go out to work I would achieve so much more!

oh most deffinitely! my hubby always tells me that i shouldnt start a new one til x is done! but i start a new one anyways! i also look on etsy and at books at the library and think that i should try this too! i just got a mini loom and am playing with it!

I am a beginner crafter. My fiance and I don't have a house of our own yet so I am being calm with what I make. I guess that's not the best idea though, if I want to continue honing my crochet skills. I have had unfinished then latered frogged projects. One thing I have a problem of is being lazy and slip knotting twice where really I should dc then slip knot. I'm also lazy when it comes to weaving, needless to say my project right now looks crappy because of this. My mom is a crafty person, and she doesn't have just one room but a whole house full of crafts, and then supplies in the shed.

I never have this problem because I never can pick up so many crafts. I think you should clear up what you already started before you move on to other projects, or else you would just get things piled up.

I don't think I have as many unfinished projects as you (maybe!), but I do have a half of a room filled with yarn, material, cross stitch, needlepoint, embroider and quilting materials, kits and unfinished projects. I'm not sure it's a problem, though. When I get bored, or tired of every day things, I take myself to my room and look through things until one strikes me and then I'm busy and happy again.

Hi Jarnold51. Your discussion is quite good to realise the feeling you have regarding the life itself. Very impressive indeed and reality of life is what you wrote. Life is a continuing process. We have so many aspects of life and try to manage it with our best of ability to understand. Well, I do feel at my age about those things I used to engage myself in my childhood and then in teenage. With the passage of time, I sometime miss those moments and activities and whenever I look forward, as I MUST for the sake of my family, I do feel that I have to fulfill so many plans and commitments and the time looks to be so scarce to meet the challenge. Thanks for a nice topic. I like it.

I also have alot of projects on the go at one time. Wish I knew why I continue to do this as I hate seeing them unfinished, but keep right on going and continue with what I had in mind instead of completely something that had been started long ago. My husband made me a beautiful, huge corner cabinet with shelves for holding all my wool and books. Well, unfortunately there is no room in it for the books anymore! I seem to keep acquiring more wool and it goes in the cabinet. It is almost to the point that there will be no more room for any soon!!! I tend to complete the projects that I start as gifts, its the other ones that I have the issue completing!!!! I most definitely have the same problem as you!!!

I had a closet in one of the houses my mom and I lived for awhile. It was a storage closet filled with shelves instead of rack for clothes. I kept my fabrics in there for the clothes I made. Over the years I have used boxes and anything else I could find to keep my supplies and finished or unfinished items in. I always had clothes I started but never finished. During one period of time I worked as both an activity assistant and activity director in various nursing homes. It became a goal of mine to have the kinds of supply cabinets they have along with a craft/sewing room just for all my crafting items. That is still a dream and is getting further and further away as years go by. In the meantime, everything is still in boxes, and now all my yarns are in those folding pop-up hampers which are great for yarn because I can see what is in them all the way to the bottom. I definitely have the unfinished project syndrome. Hopefully I can make some progress here in the future when I get to quit my job and try to live off my disability alone. It might be more difficult financially, but on the other hand, I will have more time to devote to my many projects that are not all craft related, as well as reduce my stress levels. The craft projects will help with that too.