luvstoquilt

I do finish and if I still d ont like it I donate it.

pbraun

I am like . Since I am learning, I have a log of all my starts and purchases. I have start dates and finished dates along with a column for comments. My pile of receipts is so big, I feel compelled to account for some of my spending. That said, I am binding the sampler where I learned all about piecing. It has 12 blocks in colors I like and was started 2016. I have learned to sandwich, pin and spray adhere, free motion and stitch in the ditch and work with rulers, and bind through my other learning projects.

Watson

Life's too short to work on something I don't love.

If it's something that just hasn't percolated long enough for me to know how I want to finish it, I'll put it aside, but if it's something that I just plain don't care for, I'll pack it up and send it to the Goodwill. Or, in the case of one half-finished collage I just tossed the whole thing in the garbage. Made me feel a whole lot better after struggling with it for weeks.

Working on something that doesn't make me happy can cause me to avoid my sewing room altogether and I don't want that.

Watson

Grammahunt

When I start a quilt I don't like, whether in a class or otherwise, I finish it with the purpose of charity giving. I've already purchased the fabric so why not. For every quilt there is not only someone that needs it, there is someone that will love it.

Sheri.a

I signed up for our guild's workshop ($35) with a very popular national instructor, one that always fills up at the Houston Quilt Festival. Found out I needed to pay $100 for the mystery quilt pre-cut kit the instructor was using -- ouch. That was okay until the day of the class. Oh my! I didn't like the fabric or the pattern. Completed more than half at the workshop, put it away for about 6 months. I took it out, quickly finished it, and used it to practice Ruler Quilting. After I was finished, I was happy with the quilting but not so much the quilt.

I sent it to my brother and he absolutely loves it.

magicmoonmusings

No way. I expect my hobbies to give me pleasure, otherwise what's the point? It's a hobby not a hazing.

If I love the fabric I salvage as much as possible and put it back in the stash. If it's the fabric that I end up disliking, sometimes I toss it but a few times I ended up painting it using acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium and that was fun. I made a couple of small art quilts with that fabric.

Blue Button

I do, but it may take awhile. I started making my daughter a high school graduation quilt when she was 17. She said she wanted it black, peach and gray. I had just started quilting and didn't pick colors very well. Short story, I hated that quilt (I was hand quilting it) and had it about 1/2 done and couldn't force myself to work on it any longer. I finally pulled it out of wherever it was and finished it. I gave it to her on her 40th birthday. She loves it..

WMUTeach

I have adjusted my response this week. I did some cleaning out of my UFO pile and got honest with myself. I found several tops that were either finished or nearly finished. My emotional response when I saw them, sent them to the give away pile. No desire to finish them. Bagged them up and off they go to a donation center for another quilter to finish.

I did take time to follow my own suggestion and I don't like them because they were not constructed well and are crooked and in the case of one, I tried and tried to make it straight and was unsuccessful. Time to move on. I have learned much since starting these two but have no desire to deconstruct two quilts.

xenodeno

I try to finish quilts that I end up despising, but there have been 2 or 3 that I finally pitched and I didn't lose any sleep over it!

Blondie~

I feel my life is too short to waste time sewing something I dislike.