Originally Posted by annesthreads
I decided that I’d like to make a lap quilt for my Mum. I chose a paper-pieced block that looked to be well within my capabilities, but I’m really struggling! Do you ever have a project that just seems to be jinxed? Anything I could do wrong I have: sewing the fabric on the wrong way round, getting the fabric doubled over, cutting off the wrong piece of paper..... at one point the needle even fell out of the sewing machine! Each block has 4 sections: I got 2 sections together and they wouldn’t line up. Three days and I haven’t even completed one block! And there are 30 in the quilt.... If I don’t manage to get the first one completed today, it’s back to the drawing board.
You sound like me, only I never realized this was not the norm for learning to quilt. :oops: Usually when it gets as bad as you have just described, it just means you are tired or too distracted. Address whatever is causing your attention to waiver, get some rest and go back to it later. Little by little your quilt will be un-jinxed