How old is your oldest UNFINISHED project; whether gardening, home remodel, sewing, arts&crafts.

Whatever I start I finish within a week. I dont have the patience to drag something out for months and years. Bathrooms, craft projects, it doesnt matter.

I used to chuckle when I visited other people's house and saw many unfinished projects. Kitchens with gaps in the floor and walls, etc. Now, I find I also have some unfinished projects. Guess I have always been a generalist not a specialist. My dad still looks down on that. It goes against his advice. Gene

I'm not telling! ! ! ! !

I am the world's worse when it comes to getting excited about a new (to me) arts or crafts project. I get all the necessary materials gathered up, sometimes I start & finish a project, sometimes I don't . Maybe that comes from my time as a member of a local arts/crafts co-op, and when something sold well, I would feel pressure to create more of similar items. Then it became a job rather than a hobby, and was no longer fun. I've been told I could start my own craft supply store with all the materials I have 'stashed'.

Then again, maybe it's an inherited trait. My Dad was even worse than I am about not finishing things. Their house was in a constant state of 'remodeling' for the entire 40+ years they lived in it! He was a perfectionist, and nothing was ever perfect enough for him. . ...

I think some people need and desire unfinished projects. It gives them something to work on. I can imagine some unhappy people sitting in a house that is finally "done." Gene

Lol hey gene! My house is about done but I still can find plenty of projects in my landscaping! ;)

Some things never finish, suits me as well if I get to start and allow them to evolve as life carries on. The dishes are never finished, the animals are always needy, painting changes with the seasons and projects blossom, fruit and die the same as life, and I love it.

Since I worked a full-time and part-time job & attended college at night while raising my kids; including GS leader, Sunday school teacher, PTA secretary, I still find unfinished craft projects stuffed away in a box in the basement. It seems like I'll never catch up from those crazy hectic years. However, summertime was mine for gardening. That's always been a priority. : )

There are a couple house and machine projects , I went with years ,
They will be done ? eventually .
Remember the round pot holders , that said "i will get a"" Round Tuit " it is like that ^_^

I spent almost 40 years having to finish projects and live up to other people's expectation of my completing projects. When I retired I swore things would be done "in my time" (my wife hates that phrase). It drives everybody else crazy, but I love the freedom!!! This old fool does what he wants, when he wants.

kudos to ALL the "old fools" out there!

I've always been this way. I used to make myself finish things. I sewed for my girls and completed the sewing. As they grew up, I fell back into bad ways. My girls came and "helped" me clean up and threw away many things. I didn't care. It needed doing. Good luck to those of us who are still "trying". Lucie

I hate to admit it but I started a quilt for my oldest son's 10th birthday, it still is not done and he is 27 now. Not even sure where the quilt is...

I can't imagine what I would do if everything was finished. Sit back and twiddle my thumbs while looking for a new project? I need to have several things underway at all times, it keeps life lively for me.

I don't think there is ever a "finished" garden; anything living is always evolving.

when "IT'S" finished, YOU'RE finished.

trackinsand: LOL, you are so, so right!

:-)

Tracks is a wise woman. :-)

I started blankets before my dau was born, finished for the grandson 20 yrs later, most of em anyway, still caring for 60yr old furniture made by my grandfather, refinishing. Have always preferred what I made for my home over store bought knick knacks, and so the ceramics carry on as well...

With me too, it seems every time I start something there's complications and it's never as easy as it seems. Sometimes I persevere & other times I throw in the towel. : )

I voted 2-10 years. This needledwork project required a little more brain matter than the ole in-out stitching, so it fell by the way side. I do not take stuff off the to do list, I feel like a quitter if I do. Also realize it creates unnecessary stress and burden on myself.

This survey reminds me of two stories:
One: I took up crocheting a purse and half-way thru the project I decided I hated the colors and the purse itself. Simply could not quit and when I finished it went straight to the women's shelter. What a waste of time, I hope somebody thought it was useful and pretty but I seriously doubt it. This is a case against keeping projects pending. Should have discarded the dang thing.

Two: My friend's elderly mother was lamenting about unfinished needlework projects, knowing she didn't have the strength or much time left to complete them. My friend spent one summer silently finishing the projects and presenting them to her Mom the following Christmas, which ended up being her last one. I still remember how pleased she was about the completed work, even if she didn't do it herself. The framed work and pillows are displayed in my friend's house, in memoriam. This is a case in favor of keeping pending projects alive until finished.

Ooops, here's the project.

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I have been trying to enclose our breezeway to make a sun porch. I hope to have it done before frost so I can save some of my plants from freezing.

I'm not as bad as my DSM...I started a hooked rug in 1972...donated it unfinished in 1999...but she started making a tatted bonnet I941 for her pregnant sister's baby girl who turned out to be a boy. It became a family joke , even when he was middle aged he would still ask her when his bonnet would be done.

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Unfinished tatted bonnet. I think we hv a winner

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45 years ago when I married, my grandmother gave me a quilt top that was to embroidered with the months of the year and the flowers associated with the month. She had done the first 2. So far I have finished March.

I bow to the Master!

Just to let you all know...,the VB will change tomorrow.I clicked the wrong date when scheduling and set it for tomorrow by mistake and it won't let me undo it less than 24 hours in advance.

Melody, that's nothing like a long project! Try again. 24 hours is nothing.

LOL

Ok...I started a quilt 19 years ago. The top is finished, I've sandwiched it with the batting and pinned it all together. All it needs is marking and quilting....and it is still in the cupboard. (and I've made a dozen other quilts and finished them since then) How's that?

Maybe you really don't like this particular project and therefore falls to bottom of list

Actually, it is so special I'm afraid I'll mess it up. I appliqued antique white handkerchiefs to the blocks and the handkerchiefs were old family pieces. It really needs to be hand quilted and all I am good at is machine quilting. I can hand quilt, but want to be better at it before touching something this special...some of the hankies are nearly 100 years old.