Diary of a procraftinator

Diary of a Procraftinator

Welcome to the informal (and often unfinished) side of my quilting life. Here, I share the highs, lows, and inevitable detours of crafting with ADHD and highlight my incredible skills in the art of procraftination.

procraftinate

verb /prəˈkraf.tɪˌneɪt/

1. The act of avoiding real responsibilities by engaging in various craft activities, often with a suspiciously high level of enthusiasm and a productively seldom found elsewhere.
2. The tendency to avoid completing one craft project by enthusiastically starting several new ones.

Her house was a mess, but her quilt stash was organized down to the last fat quarter—a classic case of procraftination.

His procraftination led to an impressive collection of unquilted sandwiches, a multitude of handcrafted bags (without straps), and one overly ambitious quilted jacket sleave.

She realised she was procraftinating when, only a mere 10inchs from finishing the binding, she found herself on pinterest; having created a very inspiring board of adorable crochet projects (despite not even knowing how to hold a crochet hook).

She sat down to sew, but in classic procraftinator fashion, she decided she needed to ‘quickly’ organise her thread first. Four hours later, she had a spreadsheet so detailed it could run a small embroidery empire and was the proud owner of a new high tech label maker.

As a seasoned procraftinator he had fifteen unfinished projects, zero finished ones, and an intricate 12-step roadmap for an artistic quilt series involving rusty objects and natural dyed fabrics that was clearly never going to happen.

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UFOs 27%

Planned 38%

Imagined 23%

Actually in progress

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