Originally Posted by lnordyke
I made a Carpenter's Star quilt that is king-sized. It is the ugliest quilt I have ever seen. So, I put borders on it thinking that might help. It didn't. My question to the group....do I pay to have it quilted and use it on our bed or do I cut my losses now and re-cycle the fabric (or burn it). This has been a learning opportunity on what fabrics DON'T go together. My girls laughed so hard when they saw it yesterday that they were literally doubled over. Yikes!
I definitely wouldn't pay to have it quilted but you could write up a story about the quilt top and place it folded up and with the top and store it away. One day, someone just might treasure that quilt enough to complete the quilting or find a use for and you never know, it could be one of your children or grandchild down the line. Please do NOT destroy it. If you do however, find uses for the various squares and want to rip it apart to use in other ways, by all means do so - but only if it's something you really want to do. I have a wall hanging which is in that state right now and I call it "Learning tool." People rave about it but although it is pretty, I see the errors and haven't brought myself to hang it yet and may never. it could be used as a table runner or a bed runner on the foot of the bed and someday, someone, myself included, just may use it. It is quilted, bound off and tagged but it's NOT a full sized quilt. I personally would stop working on it, write the story behind it, fold it up and store it away. If you never complete it, it's a working tool an done from which you learned a lot and developed new skills so it's time to move ahead and put that knowledge and those skills into gorgeous quilts and enjoy doing them.