quiltswithdogs

If you are really done with spending anymore time on it and nobody wants it (how can that be?), you can give it to charity, as you mentioned.

What you may not know is that you can donate a quilt without finishing it !

When I was able to, I used to go for a day of quilting at a local quilt shop's monthly project for making quilts for the local shelters group called COTS. We would have stacks of already made, donated, quilt tops and we put the 3 layers together with a simple quilting pattern of our choosing. The first time I did it, I got all weepy. So call around to either quilt shops or the shelters and find a place who uses tops for this purpose. This will put a positive "spin" on the quilt for you. It's very rewarding. And believe me, whoever gets it will be more than thrilled. The shelters let the homeless people choose and keep their quilts. If their circumstances go bad again and they must return, often, the quilt is their only possession. Your feeling of this frustrating quilt will be changed to a humbling and warm,fuzzy,good one.

Debbie1

It's gorgeous! I just finished one recently that I got so I hated to work on, but I finished it and gave it to my little grandson and now when I look at it, I think - it doesn't look so bad after all! In fact, my DD never said too much about it when I was making it, but now she uses it all the time! I'd say put it away for a while, then come back to it!

mamatobugboo

I applaud your decision to donate it. As Patrice said, if you are already at the binding stage and you don't like it, you most likely never will!

By donating it, just think that everytime one of the flood victims looks at that quilt, they will remember the kindness of a stranger and through your gift, they will feel hope.

it is a beautiful quilt!!!

Mousie

OH MY GOODNESS, WEEZIE, I am sorry, but this is beautiful...I know what to do with it, if you don't want to finish it...send it to moi!!!!
I'll give it all the love and cherishing it needs!
That is fabulous. It looks like you put a lot of work into it, but just look at that picture????
What mother wouldn't love a quiltface like that?
Sorry if I am not commiserating...I just can't.
I'm really curious now, to see what is pretty to you, bc this is wonderful.
:D
EDIT: I sometimes post my reply, before reading more.
I understand more about what your feeling now, and I think quiltswithdogs, idea is excellent, about going ahead and donating, even though it is not finished.
I have a quilt I was making for DGD and I don't like the ribbon I put on it, to cover some bad quilting. I have considered taking it back off, but then I would need to 'cover' again, so, this has opened up my thinking.
She is 5. She is going to use it, and love it, anyway, so I need to go ahead and just finish it, and realize while I am doing it, my quilting has come aways this year.
Mistakes or not, this really is a very nice quilt, and some cold person out there, would love to have it, I promise :D

Tippy

I know exactly what you mean weezie.. My first "big" quilt top was a Queen sized spread.. meaning that it was bigger than a queen sized quilt. Loved the materials when I bought it, but when I finished the top, I decided that the colors just depressed me and I wanted nothing more to do with it. Fortunately a guy I worked with saw it and offered to buy it and I said "SOLD"
he and his partner had it finished for their new house and loved it.
Personally I love your quilt.. and I agree it would make someone who has lost much very happy ... and grateful for a thoughtful person like yourself.

weezie

Update: I'm plodding along on this quilt and am not doing too badly. I've even come up with an idea to "fix" the icky star flowers where the points meet, but that would be a lot of work, so may not do it.

What I dislike most about this quilt: it is monotonous, too repetitive, I guess. I'm not sure that I know exactly. I'm almost finished a quilt top that I really like. I "borrowed" it from a 3" x 3" catalog picture and it is very traditional; only has 4 fabrics in it. I really like my kid quilt (she said modestly) -- photos posted Oct 14 under "Pics & Whine". I mailed it at mid-day on Friday and that's all the tracking report shows so far and that's really creeping me out.

I will attach 3 pics to this (2 finished and 1 top) that I like. The small tropical floral one is made mostly of leftovers from the Hawaiian shirt phase my girls went through when they were in high school in the '80's. The Looney Tunes character fabric was also a leftover from pants I made one of my daughters; she's worn the pants for years and they never fade, so I took all the Bugs, Daffy, and Taz and kept adding strips of color until I ended up with the quilt top. The paper piecing one started as an experiment in paper piecing, but I really can't do it well as I'm directionally challenged?? and so I made just a few PP blocks and decided to just "wing" the rest of the quilt.

weezie

YAHOOOO! I just checked the kid quilt tracking report again and it's reached it's destination (the post office there anyway!). Happy dance! Happy dance!

Pzazz

My gf lost everything a couple of yrs ago due to a hurricane. She was SOOOOO thankful to recieve not one, but 3 quilts!!! She is also a quilter, so they meant even more to her, knowing how much work and love went into them.

illinois

My solution--you could put that into a box and send it to me. I think it is beautiful!
My suggestion is that you might use a skinny light/medium for the first border. It may be that the quilt has become "too dark" with the fabrics you have chosen. I think its saving will be in the border and the quilting.

weezie

Hiya! Thank you. It has no borders ... just a narrow binding which is already sewn onto the front; now I am hand stitching it down on the back and it's looking pretty good. I think once I finish that and put the design in each block center (I'm leaning toward using a cherry red colored thread for the design), it will look better.