Originally Posted by
Krisb
My usual progression goes as follows:
1. Resolve to use only items from my stash. Pick the fabric. Love it. Think it all fits together. Put it on the cutting table.
2. Hate some or all of the fabric. Switch some, go to fabric store, buy some more.
3. Cut some pieces. Decide I don't like some or all fabrics. Go to fabric store.
4. After cutting, put all auditioned and new fabrics away. Wonder why it won't fit into the spot from which it came.
5. Make some blocks. Decide I hate everything about this quilt. Grit my teeth and tough it out. Optional: Go to fabric store.
6. Complete quilt top. Procrastinate until layering is inevitable.
7. Layer. Think about quilting patterns for a few days/weeks/months.
8. Start quilting. Lay quilt on floor to look at effect. Change quilting pattern (optional) and rip out previous quilting. Finish quilting about an hour at a time.
9. Make binding. Add binding. Decide this is the ugliest quilt ever made.
10. Show quilt to someone else. They say it's beautiful. Decide they're right. Repeat this step as required until I believe it.
11. Resolve that the next quilt will have no new fabric, since now I have more than before I started this quilt.
My progression:
1. OOOh, that is pretty, I can do that!
2. I don't have anything in my stash I can use, I need all new fabrics.
3. This is harder than it looks.
4. I am such a fool for starting something so difficult. I can't do anything right. Why did i even start?
5. I have so much time and money invested in it, I need to finish it, but never again.
6. Its done, but it is so ugly and amatuerish.
7. Its not all that bad.
8. Oooh, this IS nice!
Often is several weeks or even months between 4 and 5!