How many hours have you struggled with someone else's quilt top?
I gave my sister a quilt kit years ago, and she finished the quilt. I am getting it ready to quilt on my midarm frame but, oh my! A lot of the larger triangles have been stretched out of shape, and there are holes where her stitching did not catch both sides of a seam. It's a queen-sized quilt top, so there is just a *lot* of it to handle! I am working on ironing and starching it into submission, but the frequent trips to the sewing machine to mend holes and take in seams is taking its toll. I have maybe 3 hours into the quilt top and am not even one-quarter done with it.
I'm glad to finally finish this quilt for my sister, but I'll never give her another complicated quilt kit! There are plenty of nice quilts that don't have big triangles in them.
I've done two others for her (both also JoAnn's quilt kits that I gave her), but this third one is by far my biggest challenge.
Any other near-horror stories out there?