Deadline -lesson learned re procrastination!
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About 6 months ago a friend told me she was pregnant and I thought it would be fun to make her a baby quilt. I even had some fabrics that I'd previously bought for one. Need I say what happened (or didn't happen) next? I kept thinking that I must get started on it, and time went by. I finally decided on a disappearing 9 patch, to make the most of the pictures on one of the fabrics. Time went by. Then I made a big effort and sorted out my block size and cut out the pieces. Time went by. Then it was last week and I arranged to see my friend Friday of this week, for the last time before the birth. PANIC! I've just put the finishing stitches into the quilt after a gruelling few days. It looks OK, but I never want to sew under that sort of pressure again. It took all the fun out of it, and I couldn't take the care that I would have wanted to with the quilting, which I'm still quite a beginner at - wouldn't want a quilter to look closely at my stippling. Even so, sitting here looking at the finished quilt, I'm pleased with it, and I hope my friend will be too, after all that effort.
Hopefully this experience will teach me not to procrastinate so much! I'm going to have a couple of days off sewing now. [ATTACH=CONFIG]330143[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]330142[/ATTACH] |
Maybe you work good under pressure, because it is very, very pretty. Good work
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It's cute -
I think you had a lot of it planned in your head - so that might have helped. |
Wow, you did great under pressure I must say. It is a wonderful quilt and it is going to be treasured by the mom and the child in years to come. I do not like working under such pressure and try very hard not to get myself in that place, but I did once...and that was a great lesson to me never to get myself in that position again so I know just how you felt.
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Originally Posted by barny
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Maybe you work good under pressure, because it is very, very pretty. Good work
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It looks great! Love the backing fabric too.
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Originally Posted by JanTx
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It looks great! Love the backing fabric too.
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Very cute -- I have had problems like that too. I sometimes leave things to the last minute -- or the baby comes early.
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You say lesson learned now but I bet you'll do it again. I do it all the time and each time I say, never again! Your quilt is great! You must work best under pressure.:D
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It's really cute. I like the placement of the pictures in the bigger squares.
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