Originally Posted by carslo
A little history I went to my first big quilt show in Long Beach awhile back and bought the nifty little kit to make those cute little hexagons. Three trips to to the hospital for stays with DH from 5 days to 3 weeks and a couple of vacations later I have over 80 double rowed flower completed. Yippee I thought! I hummed and hahhed over what to do now. Bought three different fabrics to possibly applique the flowers to the material but realized this isn't quite the right approach. Decided I am sick of making hexagons and do not want to put a walk way between the flower. Now I decided, I would zig zag the flowers together did about 1/4th of the flowers and do not know if I like that either. I have considered doing a PIF or selling these blasted flowers but with so much time invested I am just betwixted and between with them. Any suggested to get me moving again on this project - it has sat for over 8 months now.
I think you need a break from it and then get it back out. I find that when I am working on something to keep my hands and mind busy like at a hospital while waiting for news about a loved one, that working on the item brings such bad memories or feelings that after the crisis is past I just have to put it away for awhile so that my mind can settle down. This way the quilt will only bring back good memories not the sad ones.