I, too, go on sewing binges. I work on something until I've had my 'fix' and then I may not work on that particular project for a while or I'll not sew at all for a week or two. Don't get discouraged, walk away and wait until the time is right again. You'll know when it's time to start sewing agian. I have a king size, completely hand stitches Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt top that I just finihsed about 6 months ago. This is my very first hand quilting project and now I'm terrified because I have to, some how, get it sandwiched together with the backing and batting. I don't have anyone to help me and I have no space to spread it out. I'm so afraid that if I try to do this on my small dining room table that it's going to shift and be crooked or not turn out right after all the time it too me to hand stitch all of those hexagons together, there are over 3,000 hexagons. But, I wait patiently untill I can figure a way to get this done and I've gone on to other projects. I want to baste my hexagon quilt with needle and thread and that presents another problem, how to get that done, I know it's going to take me about 3 days to do just that. But, I'm patiently waiting until I can figure that out as well. I might go to my local rec. center and ask if I can use one of their rooms and push a few of those big tables together. I have bad knees and I can't crawl on the floor like I used to when I was younger. So, just hang in there and wait patiently but don't give up. Like you said, you have too much time and money invested to give up. And besides, I don't know about you, but for me, quilting has been a major stress reliever for me in the past 7 months. I've been through some major health and family problems and if I didn't have something to take my mind off of the other things in my life, I think I could have easily lost my marbles. lol Good luck. Step back, take a rest and see how it goes.