Don't be too hard on yourself ArizonaKat. What is that old saying? Practice makes perfect. Not that we are all perfect; we all still make mistakes (that's why seem rippers were invented right!).
I have found that participating in these boom swaps has help improve my piecing and has given me more confidence to try newer and often harder blocks. If you haven't looked up quilterscache.com, you should. Great directions and a large selection of blocks at different skill levels. Now if I could just have a fraction of this confidence in the quilting and binding steps, I could finish up my ever increasing pile of UFO's. I find those steps intimidating.
