Another Mom Saying
 

One of my Mom's sayings was

"Nothing succeeds like success."

I think this really applies quilting - if the first projects turn out "well enough" - it is a lot more fun to keep on going.

Conversely, if the first projects are "failures" - it is more easy to say "forget it" - and go on to something else.

Do you have any phrases that seem to apply to quilting?

The old carpenters mantra: " measure twice - cut once". I have that going through my head whenever I start cutting anything.
And: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong" (Murphy's law)

It's really obvious, but "a stitch in time saves nine."

I remind myself of that when the components of a block aren't measuring right. It takes less time to figure out what's wrong and fix it rather than keep going and try to fit that wrong-sized block into the quilt.

"A stitch in time saves nine" was my grandma's favorite saying and she had the patience of a saint and she was a wonderful seamstress and quilter.

and the corollary "at the worst possible moment"

If you want to do something you will find the time to do it. And this one: There is never enough time to do it right, but always enough time to do it again [h=2][/h]

If you don't rip it out, you won't wear it out.

Not really sewing related, but my life sometimes seems like a 'two steps forward, one step back' process.

For sewing I tell myself 'one stitch at a time'. Life can be like that too.

Idle hands are the devils workshop.

Ha, ha, did anyone else's mother tell them, "If you don't stop crying I'll give you something to really cry about!" :eek:What can I say? Mothers in the 50's were strict.