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three steps forward...and 20 jumps back

This weekend I updated some of the Quilting Page on this blog so my aunt could see a few of the things I've done. (We've not seen each other in a LONG time.)  I even entered the text for 2014, as I have two quilts that I need to finish/do ASAP. And since I was within a week of finishing one, it made sense to go ahead and enter the text so I could post pictures next week. Right?


So here we are, Monday night, and I have 3/4 of the quilt filled with basting pins, only to realize that the backing isn't straight. So now I have two options: unpin everything (which means undoing about 4 hours worth of work), or leave it the way it is. Actually, I have a third option: flip it over and see how bad it truly looks on the back before making a decision (and then hoping if it's livable looking at that I can straighten all three layers out on the unpinned section). 


I enjoy quilting. But it's these make or break moments, when I'm tired, when I just want to finish, when I know this is the crossroads of correcting a mistake and adding even more time to a long job or finishing the project and living with a mistake forever, that make me want to take up another hobby (or actually clean house)!


And while I was update the page, I kept thinking "I KNOW I did more quilting than this in 2013."  So as I start thinking back through projects, I realized why there's not as much to show: I post the finished project.  A finished quilt top is just one part of a quilt; it's not a completed project. So I have several quilt tops folded/hanging awaiting quilting time (and four other quilt tops from both this and previous years awaiting piecing), but since there not finished projects, they don't make it onto the quilt page.


Hopefully, by the end of this month, you will see a post reading: For today's post, see the Quilt Page.  But unfortunately, today is not that day.



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Jennifer said…
Thats why I can't sew. I can't stand to have to rip something apart and sew it all over. Hope Jenna has better luck than I do. In answer to your comment on my post, I'm not sure about next year. Praying God will open something up for me or if not, I may be homeschooling one. It's all good. For once, I'm actually not worried.
January 14, 2014 at 9:43 AM
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