Year of the PIGS

A while ago, I mentioned doing a UFO Challenge on my blog and I was planning to post this challenge a couple of weeks ago, but then Judy L. mentioned her Challenge and I didn't want to over saturate blog land with challenges that might be too similar. This week, after some encouragement, I decided to put my ideas down in an email and got some great responses from it so here it is!

The Year of the PIGS*

I envision this Year of the PIGS to be more of a support group than a challenge. For those of us whose stash, kits and UFOs** are bigger than our stash rooms. I think that most of us tend to bite off more than we can chew very now and then, but are your bites so large that you get too overwhelmed and have no idea where to begin? Have you ever thought about how you ended up with your 529 PIGS, UFOs and ideas that you just have to make?

My idea is to post questions every 2 weeks (or twice a month, maybe) for bloggers and non-bloggers to answer and have a Mr. Linky for everyone to share their posts and answers with everyone else. Questions will be UFOs, PIGS and stash related. For example, how do you store your UFO's and PIGS? Or what is the #1 reason why your UFOs go from active projects to UFOs?

I think it will be interesting to see how other quilters answer questions and to hear about readers using tips that are included in answers.

Oh yeah! And every month, I will pull a name from the Mr. Linky posts and the winner will get a little surprise form me. You don't have to sign up at the beginning to have a chance to win and you don't have to answer every question either. But won't it be fun?

For you bloggers, if you want to take the button/badge for your blog, just copy the code that is underneath the picture and add it to your sidebar or a post. Isn't the badge adorable?

For those of you non-bloggers out there, you can still play, too. You can answer the question in comments of the Mr. Linky post and indicate in your name field that your answer is in the comments.

I think the first question will be - How do you store your UFOs and PIGS separate from your fabric stash? Pictures would awesome to share, too! And I think that we will do the first post on Wednesday, January 5, 2011. This will give you a few days to post your answer.

Thanks to Regina for the button! And thanks to Amy K for letting me steal the Year of the PIGS name!

* PIGS - Projects In Grocery Sacks 

** UFOs - Unfinished Objects