Something about my personality makes me aspire to do BIG projects, but to get bored with them after a week or two, or to get distracted by the next shiny lovely thing I want to try; and so, my WIP pile grows and grows.
I really don't like this bit of my personality, but I can't seem to shake it no matter how often I try. I make the decision to not make anything new until I clear away my WIP pile but get overwhelmed trying to choose which one to do first. If I can manage to put them in an order of "to dos", I find that after going back to something that has been sitting in a bin for months (sometimes even years) I can't remember where I was in the pattern, or I no longer like that pattern, and end up having to tear it all apart. And, even if I do manage to complete a couple, I somehow feel like it makes it ok to reward myself by starting new projects which, quite likely, will end up in the WIP pile also.
I literally have a project that I have been working on, on and off, for 26 years. I started it when I was 14 and have frogged and changed plans for it so many times I have lost count. I just can't get it right. It's currently sitting in a bin and I know I need to frog it again and start over, but that alone is a daunting process I have been avoiding. Yes, it's the one from my And So It Grows Rug post. It's still sitting there heckling me from my office.
There is another bin that held the materials (cotton craft loops) for a braid rug for almost 10 years. I originally tried to make it round, but I apparently sewed it too tight and it buckled up, so I had to cut the stitching back out and start over. Being me, of course, I then decided to make it an oval big enough for my living room (or as close as using ALL the bags of material would allow). I finally made ALMOST all the braid last year, and then it went back into the bin because it hurts my back to even think about the actual sewing part. I'm hoping to find the ambition to try it when I dig my dining room table out from all the clean laundry piles, but somehow I doubt even a magically open work space will get me to start sewing that bugger together any time soon.
I have drawers full of decoden kits I never put on the bin full of phone cases, and now the phone styles are a year out of date so it seems it would be a waste to decorate them. They all sit awaiting my decision between buying more recent cases to decorate or using them on something else someday. Either way, I need to get around to selling those cases before they are tragically outdated.
I have at least half a dozen quilts siting anywhere from cut pieces in a pile (like the picture below) to fully assembled tops waiting to be backed and finished, and easily that many afghans also in varying states of progress. It's probably considered some kind of sickness in some book somewhere, some bizarre combination of ADD, OCD, and hoarding, but I just can't seem to ever get ahead of that pile.
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