My most extreme example of this was a quilt I was making for my Mom’s retirement from teaching nursery school. I rushed to get a top done so that guests at her retirement party could understand how their signatures on fabric fit into the whole. I then appliquéd the signatures on and .... then .. it sat for 20 years(!). One of the large inside squares was playground equipment done with grey on white and I hated it and saw no path forward to loving it.
When I pulled it out this year, I realized I just needed to pull out the huge block I hated and substitute something that would work. So I did green and floral pinwheels near the bottom and blue pinwheels near the top. No more playground in the gulag! Finished the top, quilted it and did the hand stitching in the binding while I sat at my Mom’s hospice bedside. She was able to enjoy the quilt hanging directly in front of her for the last weeks of her life. So glad I decided to pivot and just finish the darn quilt.