Originally Posted by Butterflyblue
Okay, well, freaking out might be an exaggeration, but not by much. I am making a memory quilt for the son of a friend. His dad was killed in an accident in July. I'm making the quilt out of his dad's shirts. I have the shirts. I have the pattern. I've tested the blocks. I bought backing fabric.
Now I need to get going if I want to have the quilt done in time for his birthday in March, but the box of fabrics, templates, pattern, etc is sitting there and I am procrastinating. I've cut into a few of the shirts, and made a grand total of three blocks - two pieced, one plain, of the 108 blocks that I'll need. I get very anxious because I'm afraid I'm going to mess it up and make something that will be painful to the kid and his mom instead of comforting.
I want to do this quilt. I volunteered to do this quilt. I love the idea of this quilt, but I am having a hard time just doing the cutting.
I'm not sure what I'm asking for here. I just really need to get it out, I guess.
I know exactly what you are feeling. Finished 4 small mem. quilts for a friend in FL. that passed away 2010. Got them done just before Christmas. I did like you.. I cut, waited,undecided,worrying about are they gonna like this? I know there are going to be some mistakes,what am I going to do? I posted a couple days ago the 4 of them. Yes,I had a lot of trouble with them because I didn't use a stablizer for the Tees and knits. My points were a couple threads off on a few the Blocks themselves. But After I sent them from Ga. to FL. by my youngest DD to my oldest DD house and my DD told me abt. the my friends DD's reaction. I was so,so, so glad I did them. All 4 of the owners of the Quilts are so Gratful,they don't look at the mistakes even if they can tell mistakes are there. Most of the people can't see or tell anyway. They look at the Love they had of the owner of the clothes and the love you used to make the quilt. So don't dispair just jump in and do it. I cried, screamed when I made a mistake,talked to my friend Janie, owner of the clothes, Laughed when I was doing something with whatever I was doing. It helped and told the DDs that I talked to Her. BillsBonBon