I NEVER like any of the quilts I make ... I like looking at the pictures, and I really like the process and the techniques, but I am never really attached to any of my quilts.
It is one of the reasons I give so many away ... ALL of them away .. out of my house, away from my sight!
I don't like them because I know what is weak about them. I know where I made mistakes. I am constantly finding places that could have had a better color combination. I don't ever want to see any of the quilts I make EVER AGAIN!
However .... sometimes, I am forced to - - and, when I see one that I made years ago, or months ago (since I usually just do the quilt top and wait to quilt it) ... I am sooooo impressed!
They always look better than I remember them!
For example. I made a HUGE pineapple quilt for my son and DIL for their wedding. It was my typical, everything but the kitchen sink colors, thrown together. When I quilted it, I put waay too much stippling in it, and it is stiff .... I shipped it off to the kids, knowing they didn't know good from not so fine and breathed a sigh of relief, since I would never visit them, anyway. I would NEVER have to see it.
Four years passed and I happened to go visit while they were waiting for their second child to be born. When I walked into their house, there was this really impressive quilt on the wall, and so bright, so cheery ... I walked over to look at it and was checking out the quilting (I am SERIOUS! I didn't even recognize it!) .... I was just about ready to ask: Where did you get this quilt???? When, something about it caught my attention ... a strip of fabric that apparently I REALLY liked!
I stepped back, and looked at the WHOLE quilt, and by golly! I knew where they had got that great quilt! LOL and, it really looked great.
The other day ... DD and I were going through some quilt tops and she pulled out one and I asked: Where did that come from? (well, of course, from me - - silly old woman!) but, when did I do it? What had made me do it, and by golly! It actually looked like I knew what I was doing! even though I recognized blocks I had created some nine years ago, and whatever made me think to put four patches, nine patches, solid blocks, and big HST all together uniformly in a quilt? I knew when I folded it away, I hadn't like it, but here I was, seeing it years later, and being impressed ... senility? LOL Maybe ... but, I know what I think when I am done with one ... I DO NOT LIKE the quilts I make ... LOL <wave>