I found that by the time I've finished with a quilt (especially one that is difficult) I don't have very much appreciation for it at all but when I put it away for a few months and then pull it out, I like it a lot. The same thing happens with my mistakes that I make on piecing a quilt. When things aren't exactly perfect, I can become disgusted with the quilt but if I walk away for a few days, when I come back the mistakes don't look that bad. I also do my own quilting....the last quilt I did, I was very disgusted with my quilting, so I walked away for about a week. When I finally had time to go back and look at it, I found that it looked fine and I am quite satisfied with it. :-) Now I just have to put the binding on it....