Nice!! I used that same bird fabric in a quilt for my MIL. It's lovely fabric!
I'm with you on not wanting to re-do things. For me it's not the quantity so much, it's that that once I'm done...I'm DONE. I bet if you made 8 right from the start it would have felt different than making four, being DONE, and then suddenly being NOT DONE and making 4 more.
I hate un-checking "completed" things on checklists too. Same feeling!