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Dec 8, 2011, 09.48 PMby robiedodson
This question is like asking " how many yards of fabric is enough?" Ha! There’s just no end to most projects I start – sadly. Right now, the project that’s been int the works the longest is a pair of chairs I’ve been waiting to recover. I purchased the chairs on craigslist 5 years ago. I purchased the fabric for the chairs 4.5 years ago. I finished the pattern for the slip covers 3 years ago. The chairs are now prominently displayed in my bedroom – as of yet uncovered, with the fabric I purchased draped over one chair like a quilt. Ugh!
Dec 8, 2011, 09.45 PMby januacoeli
I begin a project 28 yrs ago and I still have not finished it. It was a Williamsburg sampler.
Dec 8, 2011, 09.31 PMby sewhappy-1
I still have projects from about 5 years ago…and I’m nowhere near finishing them!
Dec 8, 2011, 09.20 PMby Crystal Henson
It took me two years to finish a jean quilt. At least it DID get finished!
Dec 8, 2011, 09.19 PMby G-A-
About 10 months, I just kept ripping and stitching. I am mostly happy with it but what a nightmare.
Dec 8, 2011, 09.13 PMby elisabetsy
I am always starting on something and then moving on to the next thing before I am finished. I’ve been working on knitting a sweater made of very fine gauge yarn for at least 10 years. Little by little now I have gotten it through blocking and partial assembly, but still not DONE.
Dec 8, 2011, 09.13 PMby elisabetsy
I am always starting on something and then moving on to the next thing before I am finished. I’ve been working on knitting a sweater made of very fine gauge yarn for at least 10 years. Little by little now I have gotten it through blocking and partial assembly, but still not DONE.
Dec 8, 2011, 09.03 PMby dawnwich
I began an afghan in college, in the early 80s. I kept it when I moved from Ohio to California to Nebraska to Boston, through two marriages, two kids, and however many jobs. Just this summer I looked at it, thought that it would make a decent shawl if I bound it off just as it was, and did so. It looks pretty good even if the yarn choice is kinda 80s.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.53 PMby lejn
3 years. I have a lot of unfinished ones so there is a good chance I can break my record.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.52 PMby hippie1969
The longest it took me to finish a project is 1year 2months and counting. I still haven’t finished it. It’s an adorable hippie style blouse (go figure). My machine died and needs to be replaced. I will finish it when i get a new machine hopefully from Santa!
Dec 8, 2011, 08.50 PMby univacgrl
I have unfinished cross stitch projects still kicking around from the early 90’s. A knitted baby blanket made of almost all garter stitch took me seven months to finish. I’ve mostly learned my lesson. If I can’t finish a project in a few days or weeks, I know I’ll give up. I really admire those beautiful detailed lengthy project, but I just won’t start things I know I won’t finish.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.49 PMby harksews
Currently picked up a cross stitch that I have been working on intermittently for the last 5years currently less then 1/2 completed estimated completion date 2020
Dec 8, 2011, 08.49 PMby wanderingmuse
It took me around 120 hours to make a quilt last year. It think that’s the longest amount of time I’ve spent on one project!
Dec 8, 2011, 08.47 PMby dameventh
The longest it took me to finish something was one year and it was a scarf for my future step mom. I was trying to make it for Christmas but it didn’t get done until the Christmas after.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.47 PMby psvenndex
It took me nine months. to piece and hand quilt a king-size quilt.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.37 PMby Shannon Kramp
6month spent learning how to knit a scarf.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.34 PMby innocentlyevil1
Goodness two years!! I started a tunic then I hated how it looked halfway through and threw it in my sewing kit. Then I picked it up again worked on it and have been working on it ever since.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.31 PMby Redsonia
I hate to leave unfinished projects, even if I don’t like it any more or it is turning out not the way I like, I always finish it. So usually it tooks me about 2 weeks maximum.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.20 PMby ahearta
I’m one of those people who can’t leave an unfinished project sitting around. I have had projects that have taken a few months, but mostly because I’ve needed to learn new techniques during the process and that’s taken a big chunk of time in itself.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.08 PMby prettysweet
It took me a couple of years to knit a sweater once. And then I didn’t even like it.
Dec 8, 2011, 08.06 PMby spud13
I’m ashamed to say I have a counted cross-stitch picture which I started around 1997. It’s moved house with me several times and has pride of place on a tapestry frame in the lounge – the idea being that I could just pick it up and do a bit every so often. Unfortunately, I’ve got so used to seeing it there, I never think to actually sew any of it! Every year for the past 4 years, it’s featured on my New Year’s Resolution list…maybe 2012…
Dec 8, 2011, 07.59 PMby sunnipaine
12 months!
Dec 8, 2011, 07.39 PMby melike sonmez
I have a valance for my kitchen that i started almost a year ago. Its in a bag somewhere its half done but I don’t think i will ever finish it. I have changed my kitchen and it now no longer matches hah!
Dec 8, 2011, 07.38 PMby makurochan
ugh, i have stuff i started in high school around 12 years ago that i’ve never finished…
Dec 8, 2011, 07.37 PMby annsunny
Um, do you mean finish as in done? I have plenty of UFO’s. Now that I think about it, if a project doesn’t get done in a couple of months, it has almost no chance of ever being finished.
Dec 8, 2011, 07.36 PMby thecraftyone
I think it was about 2-3 years for me. My grandmother taught me how to crochet when I was in middle school and I decided to make a blanket. Making the foundation chain was quick and easy so I over did it. My foundation chain (just measured it) is about 10 ft. minus 3 or 4 inches. For some reason it didnt occur to me to take some (a lot!) out or maybe it did and I was being ambitious. Either way in them mind of a child things shouldnt take a long time so I couldnt just work on it diligently everyday it seemed like I would never finish. So I would work on it randomly for a few days every couple of months. One time though I left it so long that I forgot how to crochet haha and had to relearn. I have never finished another crochet project since.
Dec 8, 2011, 07.36 PMby Clare Bartlett
Back in 1996 I worked in central London and visited Libertys. I found the most beautiful cross stitch sampler kit there. I bought it and started it the same day…still haven’t finished it. I do dig it out every now and again and I think 2012 maybe the year I finally finish it!
Dec 8, 2011, 07.35 PMby latulipenoire
It once took me 5 months to make a pair of pants! Granted, it was about the third sewing project I ever tried, and was WAY above my skill level. Great pants, though!
Dec 8, 2011, 07.18 PMby Rose Armstrong
Everything I finish usually takes place within 2 months, any longer than that I lose focus and forget about it!
Dec 8, 2011, 07.15 PMby bitterbunny
ewwww….that is a sore subject with me, lol….i’m notorious for starting projects and never finishing. my longest going undone project would probably be about 5 or 6 years :-(