bluekrissyspikes

any one ever made a quilt that seems like it is just here to punish you? i decided to try and salvage what was my first attempt at making a quilt. none of the peices are squared or even the right size. they were meant to be 13" squares and some are 12" and others are 12x13. none of the lines are straight. i did painstakingly applique circles on them in sort of a bullseye pattern. they looked ok at that point until i noticed some were not the right sizes. i had watched a video on quilt as you go squares so i tried that. there was a bit of puckering on the backs of some of them but not too bad. i got mad and hid it in a box. well, today i decided to try and get it together and finish it, because as messed up as it is i probably put a hundred hours into already and i was intending to give it to my grandmother for x-mas. i did my best to make them all square at 12" so i didn't have much space left for seam allowances. so i started putting them all together into rows of 5 and that went well enough. i just finished trying to get the rows of 5 together and messed that up. the fabric i was using has a bit more stretch than i thought and it's giving me a really hard time and just doesn't look right. i don't have it in me to take it all apart and find a different fabric to use.. there are a few spots where it had puckered when i quilted each square that are bare and need me to put an applique or something over it but thankfully these are all on the back so it's not so bad. i accidentally sewed two rows together front/back so it was on the wrong way and of course when i was taking that apart i ripped into the fabric with my stitch ripper. now, at this point i only have one row left to sew on, add the binding and fix the spots that need applique and the little spot i ripped with my stitch ripper. i'm pretty upset that it isn't turning out as nicely as i'd hoped it would and really feel like throwing it out and starting over...... i probably won't though, i guess i should probably just chalk it up to a learning experience and finish the dang thing. i don't know if i should give it to her or not though, maybe with an iou for a better quilt when i have the time? i still have 4 more to do by x-mas...sigh
Anyone else have(or ever had) a quilt like this?