Originally Posted by
Jacque
The past few months I have had trouble figuring out my quilt patterns. I don't know why but it is causing me a lot of discouraged moments. I, almost, feel like quitting quilting but I have so much involved in it with fabric and a new machine that isn't a good idea either. Does anyone else get discouraged? What do you do about it?
I will weight in here and pass comment because I too have been feeling discouraged quilting wise recently. Have stopped buying magazines and most patterns because Over the past couple of years I have found that the patterns in them are often flawed. I don't know if this is due to poor proof reading/editing or poor instruction writing initially, only that parts of the pattern are either missing or do not follow through making them difficult to understand at times. More than once I have been following a pattern and will come across something, then as I am doing it will think - this doesn't seem right but that is what the pattern instructions say to do so will follow the instructions only to have to take the piece out eventually and rework it. You would think that I would have learn't my lesson after the first two or three times this happened but no! took several more times more before I decided I 'd had enough. This and deteriorating health is causing me to feel less than inspired these days. I've decided to take a step back and while I will still quilt I will not be doing anything large once I finish this quilt for my son that I started a year ago, (thank goodness it is nearly finished) I'll spend more time doing other things. In taking a break, hopefully I will discover some of the old spark again.