Recently I wrote about the first quilt pattern that has absolutely stumped me:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-47557-1.htm

I tried many of your suggestions and even had an email exchange with the designer. There was a change posted to the pattern, but it was irrelevant to the problems I was having. I kept going and hoped that the puckering problem I was having would smooth out with quilting.

So yesterday I spent the whole day paper-piecing a block and when I went to sew the quarter circle on it, it was the worst one I'd done yet. Now, I've taken paper-piecing classes. I like doing it, and I think I do a pretty good job at it most of the time. And I've done quarter-circles with that lay perfectly flat with no problem. So, I know I'm capable of it.

So when I finished that block and it was, once again, so disappointing, I decided I'd had enough and threw the whole thing away. I sorted out what fabric I had left and put scraps with my scraps and yardage with my yardage. I still have plenty of fabric to make something else. But I've never given up on a quilt and I feel a little guilty about doing it. So, I wondered if any of you have ever been defeated by a pattern. Have you just plain given up on it?

It was spoiling the fun of quilting for me. I have several projects going, and whenever it was time to work on that one, I always put off quilting for several days because I didn't want to return to it. I am convinced that there was a problem with the pattern. I don't know how anyone could have worked in the amount of fullness the pattern demanded.

After I'd sorted all the fabrics out and put them away it occurred to me that I might have tried remaking the offending part of the pattern so that it might work better, but I was just so DONE with it that I decided not to.

It's too bad. I really liked the quilt. And I loved the fabrics I selected for it. I'll use them again, but I still feel badly about it. Thanks for "listening."