A Brain Brimming Over with Ideas

My brain is an explosion of colour and ideas. Crafting is one way I have of emptying it, just a little. But, I keep on starting projects and leaving them unfinished. Whilst decluttering my craft room I have been coming across quite a number of not-quite complete projects. It's driving me crazy. And my way of dealing with it is to ignore the problem and start a new project.

I so want to start the Lavender and Old Lace quilt. Each time I enter the room I want to start playing. Another project that's calling is making a couple of hooded baby blankets, using up some white fleece and quilting fabric. I'd also be quite happy to start another hat. It is ridiculous!

A while back I realised I needed to curtail my yarn buying habits. Initially, I went Cold Sheep (like cold turkey, but with added wool). Since then I have been successfully buying less yarn than I have used. Also yarn was donated to local charities. 

This year I started out only buying yarn to facilitate using up my stash. Black, navy and brown were bought to help turn little balls of stash yarn into hats. This plan worked really well until March, and I really wanted to try a particular design, Optical Illusion Blanket. New yarn was bought for that. Later, new yarn was bought for the Doctor Who Scarf.

Now, it is looking like I need to start applying a similar method to my projects. Before I start a new project, I have to finish a UFO. It would be great to have just a handful of projects, and no UFOs at all! But that's a dream at the moment. Baby steps - one UFO at a time.