[quote=tweezy50]Does anyone else do this, or is it just me.
I start out with a plan. Goning to make a quilt to fit our queen size bed. Make four or five blocks. They are passing, for my standards. Not great but good enough. then I get bored with it and make them into a table runner or lap size quilt instaed of the queen size.
I feel like a failure even though they turn out fine because they aren't the size I originally intended. How can I maintain the focus needed to finish the size I wanted to begin with or atleast not look at them as failures?[/quote
This quilt (the one by my name) is 105" by 106" - It started out as a twin and grew and grew. I was supposed to do it for my granddaughter's high school graduation. I finished the top and it was BIG. I presented her with the top at her grad party then took it home with me to finish. Nightmare. It took me a year to do the whole thing. The only thing that kept me going was that it belonged to her. I took the finished product to her at Christmas that year. It is all batiks and is really beautiful, if I do say so. Since then, I don't get bored, just let the quilt do the talking. Each quilt takes on its own personality, or I find it that way for me. Don't feel like a failure. Your "queen size" may be a runner trying to get out. Just have fun doing whatever you do. I have been trying for two yrs now to do a queen for my older daughter. Am working on it...it has never come together but I'm plugging away...hoping for inspiration. Slowly, slowly, it's begining to come together.