Has there ever been a quilt that you loathe
 

so much that you couldn't bear to work on it?

Mine was "Road to Oklahoma" queen size double batting. Too big for the machine so I just tied it but it was awful!

I gave it away but I probably should have killed it with fire! : )

If you learned some things inthe process of making it, then there were some positives!

I have a Double Wedding ring stash away. I KNOW I will never work on it. I should try to find a friend to pass it on to so that it will eventually get finished. Maybe I will donated it to the auction of unwanted items at the local quilt guild. Fund raiser, maybe someone will love it.

Yes, it was a Stack N Whack that I took lessons to make at Joann Fabrics. I disliked the fabric I chose. They didn't have much to choose from at the time. I did make it into a quilt top in three days but I still to this day don't like it at all.

I have had several that I got the tops made but decided they were too butt ugly to finish. I put them in the free for all box at our guild. I sometimes see one finished by a member and it is still ugly. All I learned making them is I don't mind getting rid of something I don't like.

Yup. The very first full size quilt I made. Up to that point I had only made pot holders and table runners, then I selected "Bento Box" as my first pattern as I was told it was easy. It was easy, even with the mistake in the pattern that I caught and worked around. The problem was that I didn't yet understand how colors and values (mostly values) work in quilts, or in that pattern in particular. The end result is a very muddy colored quilt that doesn't do the pattern justice. To make matters worse, I thought a cool way to quilt it would be to use an embroidery stitch with metallic thread - without knowing HOW to do that (ie, now I know to use A) a walking foot, and B) a metallic needle). I have it about 3/4 way quilted before I finally put it aside in disgust.

But I learned a LOT from that disaster!!

Bargello!(am sure it is miss spelled) loved the design, and ok with the colors, but all those seams that needed to be lined up. I think I was the only one to see them but they drove me crazy! Got so sick of that thing, finally donated it for guild scrap quilts. Life is too short for all the extra drama.

Sometimes those quilts you put away for a decade or two don't seem so bad later. Time goes by and people change.

I had an old precut that was given to me over 25 years ago. I never worked on it because the colors just seemed so dull and lifeless.

It's a dresden plate with khaki and white striped/white blades. I only started working on it so I could practice before diving right back into it.

I put it on a cream color background and it was really kind of meh until I started quilting it. It looks really good quilted. Just hoping the blocks go together okay(QAYG)at the end.

I we t through a bad patch and almost got rid of everything. So glad I got past it now.

One of my mom's favorite sayings was "nothing is more discouraging than a half finished garment". I just change the last word to quilt!
I usually wind up disliking everything while I'm working on it. In process projects never seem to be fulfilling my 'artistic vision' :p. However, I usually press on and I'm almost always happy with the finished product.

I saw on PBS where they cut up ugly quilts and added them to a new project. It was really interesting.

Yes, back when I was a beginning quilter I made this hideous thing. I have no idea where it is now; I was going to throw it away but my friend took it, quilted it, and donated it to a shelter.

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I like the one above.

I have made a couple like that, "a quilt only the maker could love" LOL.

I have one in progress that I don't like, I called it "fat quarter stack and wack" stack 5 fat quarters and make 5 cuts then rearange all the prints and sew it back together. I didn't think it thru using to old of a fabric line for a more modern big block. Now I'm going to back up and add a sashing to all the blocks green with pink flower. I thought the yellow was going to set of the green, I was wrong. It looks a little better with the pink sashing. If I get it together and it still don't work for me, I'll donate it to someplace. It's going to be big. LOL Sometimes what looks good in my head looks funny after it is put together.

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16.5" blocks before sashing.

Not any that I really loathe, but I get bored with them and move on to something else.

Peggi & Future they both look fine!

When they are quilted maybe you'll be happier with them.

I made one that I disliked and finally gave it away. It was just the top and felt good to pass it to someone who might appreciate it.

Honestly a quilt for my mother-in-law. She picked the colors and pattern. I was fine with this - she has great taste. The pattern was too complicated for me but I marched on. Spent close to a year off and on working on it.
Started to put it together and the blocks weren't equal. Didn't have enough fabric left to make new ones (too many were like this) and couldn't find one of the fabrics anyway. So I continued on easing seams as best I could.
Literally groaning and gritting my teeth. If it wasn't for her, I wouldn't have finished no matter how much that expensive fabric was!! I hated that thing. Finally finished as best I could, quilted down - did the binding. Sigh of relief. Three days after she received it, she calls to tell me everything that's wrong with it. That stupid thing is still on her bed after 10+ years!!
After a time stepping back from a quilt, I'm usually a little more forgiving of my mistakes or whatever I didn't like about it - not this thing. However after five years I did stop gritting my teeth when I would see it :)

I started one last week that I already don't like. I am going to try to find one or two more fabrics tomorrow to try to pull it together a little better. It is a triangle quilt and I am already thinking of donating it. I will wait to see what the top looks like when it is done. I am not sure I will want to waste the money buying batting and a backing for it.

I love your 'hate' quilt, Peckish!

I did a black and white 3-d block quilt with a ton of y-seams and I loathed every single minute of it. Everyone else seems to love it. Blech. I'd rather eat worms than do another.

Me too! It was when I was just starting and I was trying to follow directions out of a magazine. Oh it was just awful! Turned out OK - I could fudge it enough - and she loved it. Oh well :)

I'm working on one now: a tumbling block hollow cubes. The quilt was fine until I tried to quilt it with stitch-in-the-ditch. It's just too hard to make those lines straight. I have six blocks to do yet, but they are mostly in the middle. Yuck!

A kingsize for my daughter I am working on now. It is a nightmare, but I will keep on keeping on. Usually when I dislike a quilt, when it is finished it is worth it. It feels like I will never finish, but I'm stubborn. I will.

I have done several ugly quilts, never intentionally. I finish them, chalk it up to experience, and donate them immediately. At a minimum, they will keep someone warm, and you know, one quilter's trash.......

I have one that I've dubbed "the ugly quilt"; it took me a long time to finish it even though it was a simple design. It's just a top at this point, but I think it's starting to grow on me a little bit so I might finish it soon. It'll be a good one to show around and the first person to say, "Ooh, I love that quilt" gets to have it, LOL. I don't really like it, but someone will!

Just like...Peckish, I actually really like that plaid brick quilt! It makes me think of my Dad's flannel shirts and scrappy camping quilts. I imagine it's very soft and warm - someone out there is probably treasuring it right now. :)

LOL!! I have a few and that's why I have a bunch of UFOs :D .........some aren't that bad but I get bored or they take a very long time to get finished and I get tired of working on them. I have string blocks that I think are a mess of strips, a 'mystery' quilt that gives me seizures and projects tucked here and there that I should just put on the 'recycle/free' table at our guild for someone else who might like it.

BOM sampler with ugly fabric. Donated the top to a friend's quilt guild!

We are have remorse over a few quilts we have made. I think it helps to laugh about them. Our guild is having an ugly program coming up this summer. Everyone is to bring an ugly quilt they have made for show and tell. Quilts can be ugly for different reasons. I think it helps to get them "out of the closet", so that we can "release" them from our psyche.

Yes. I hate the the mystery quilt Grand Illusion. I'm quilting it right now and will give it my neice hoping she will like it. I love the colors but think the pattern is a mess. My husband has liked all my quilts but about this one, he said "well, if you stand back, you can see the pattern." I wish I would have given myself permission not to finish it. One LQS owner said she made the units, doesn't like the quilt, so don't know if she will finish it.

I have one that I finished, quilted by check, and put on my new bed. It was supposed to be "my quilt, for me". It was there one week before I pulled it off, washed it, and gave it to DD. For some silly reason it just did not feel like my work, knowing I had paid someone to quilt it. Silly, I know, but there it is. Now, if I can't quilt it, I tie it. Much more satisfying to do it all myself.

I only have one that I really don't like. Its an exploding star that my daughter asked for special colors on. It is Burgundy and Hunter, and I just don't like it. I will get it done, but I have no idea when

The only good thing about the purple beast (that was its name in my mind) was all the things I learned from it.

This one. They were strips that I had saved from my very first quilt class. I had thankfully changed my mind and used something else. When a bunch of friends got together to work on donation quilts, I gave one of ladies the strips and as she was sewing it together kept saying. "It's just not speaking to me" Well it had been speaking to me and I didn't like what it was saying, that's why I gave it to her.
It's keeping somebody warm somewhere, hopefully UNDER another blanket.

HA !!!! I loathe every large quilt i make as i am straining shoulder and arm muscles fighting to maneuver it around on my DSM - once that'd done i'm back in love/like again !!! Kinda why i stick to couch/lap sizes !!!

There are a few things you can do with an ugly quilt.
Cut it up and make a duffel bag --

or make a pillow, you know, sew the sides together and use batting scraps to fill it. Display it proudly on your living room couch.

Make zippered pouches for Christmas gifts.

Cut it apart and make lap quilts and donate them to a nursing home.

Make your friends doggie beds.

Cut them apart and make pot holders, and placemats. Make some to give away while you are at it.

Make a throw for the kids to use while they are on the floor watching TV.

Oh my gosh, Peckish, I can hardly believe you didn't like that quilt! I love it. I love plaids of almost any kind and yours look great!

Peckish, I can picture your plaid quilt softly covering a bed, hanging down the sides, inviting someone to snuggle under for a good night's sleep. And Chester the Bunny, you're right, someone somewhere is happily sleeping under your quilt. I like them both (okay, I like the plaid one more); I don't have to comment just to be polite as I don't know either of you, right LOL? Like the old saying goes, it's all in the eyes of the beholder.

I have 2 that are sooooo ugly. One is a mystery quilt that I made recently. I didn't like the fabric when I dug it out of my stash and I don't like it any more now that it is sewn together. I need to just suck it up quilt it and get rid of it. I really like the pattern. In fact I got permission from the designer to use it for my guilds mystery quilt. I also was give a jelly roll I didn't really like. I made it into a 1600 quilt. I still don't like it. I saw online to recut it the opposite direction into 2 1/2 inch strips and add a solid along one side and resew it like a 1600 quilt. I haven't tried it yet. Been thinking about it for several years.

I just finished one...it's going to guild for anyone who wants it to use it as a practice quilt for FMQ...

Double Wedding Ring, I made one, got it done, but I will not make another.

The one I don't think I will ever do again is a 6 pointed stripped star. I used a pattern from McCall's.
After I go star together, it wouldn't lay flat. no matter what I did, it puckered up

I once tried something that I can only describe as one giant block. Huge pieces. Never finished. What a waste of perfectly good fabric!