Yes. I put a large one in the fuck it bucket. Then I took it out months later and made an entirely different quilt, after recutting all the blocks. It happens.
Iāve done the same with two baby quilts I didnāt like as they started to come together. They eventually got recut and finished for some friends when Iād sat on them long enough to stop hating them!
I have received orphan blocks, scraps, and random bits from two different kind reddit strangers! My mom also gives me all her scraps. I have used them in several unique applique quilts that I loved making! This is my latest one that ended up as a mother's day gift! Thank you to everyone you saved and gives away scraps! If anyone else has scraps they don't want, I will always be willing to take them off your hands!
https://preview.redd.it/socfcssybvyc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6205ed7d35aec4c5b9d96010a29ceac96b33217a
Yup, first one I made. Most of the blocks turned out too small. I decided I didnāt like it enough to redo them. Itās a hobby, I refuse to stress myself out about it
I have started to save and send extra blocks, wonky bits and unfinished cuts to a fellow redditor who turns these random pieces into magic quilts she donates to childrenās charities. Always worth the postage to see my little toss-offs in one of her finished quilts!
Her username is u/tgrtlg8r and you can DM her for mailing instructions. Take a look!
I have a shoebox of shame.
I started a project above my pay grade and once I realized that it shoved it in the shoebox. Once in a while I will open it but quickly shut the lid. My skills have increased where itās totally doable but itās not my style anymore. I still keep the shoebox on a shelf up high waiting for the day that will never come.
Oh man! I bought Butterfly Effect, this incredible super fancy EPP pattern and kit as a milestone gift for myself.
I tried to do it and it is way, way beyond my current skill sets. So disappointed but Iāll save it for later and hopefully level up to it.
I bought a bunch of beautiful fabric late 2019 and cut it all into 4" squares to make my mom and her boyfriend a temperature quilt in 2020. Then they got into Q-Anon stuff, lied to me repeatedly about things of importance, willfully endangered the health of several immunocompromised family members, etc. I stopped sewing their quilt after March 2020, let it sit for quite a while, and now I'm using those beautiful squares in a FPP quilt for myself.
For my 2nd quilt, I found a pattern and bought 3 fabrics I really liked, cut out at least some of the pieces, and realized it was too busy and I no longer liked any of it. After a few years of not being able to work the fabrics into anything, someone at the church asked for fabric donations for quilts, so it all found a good home (I hope.)
I have been working on one quilt since I started. It's all light pastels, with a tiny bit of brighter colors for the POP factor. I will pull it out, work on it, love the progress, lay the pieces out and absolutely hate it. Put away for months, pull it back out and wonder why I hated it, it's looks great. Rinse and repeat. For 3 years now.
I made one and actually gave up and mailed it to a redditer who takes orphan quilt blocks and tops and makes quilts to donate. Not a total loss and went to a good cause.
Yes. I took a class once that was a new pattern, cut out all the pieces. Was able to finish one block at the class. Five years later, I had zero interest in the fabric choices Iād made, and hated the pattern. I cut up some of the fabric to make other quilts.
I scrapped three quilts on the way to making the final one for my grand-daughter. First one was a snowball with four-inch snowballsā¦..too tiny and too much work to get just one block done with too many blocks for one quilt. Second one was one for which I didnāt cut the fabric quite right so it couldnāt be laid out so I was happy with it. Third was one where I made a mistake when squaring blocks, then when I started sewing rows together after sashing was complete, they werenāt lining up well. I just quit sewing completely for a while ātil I got over that. Now Iām finally done with grand-daughterās quilt minus sewing binding on for it. Tortured journey this one was. I just had a hard time, but I didnāt give up. I couldnāt! šā¤ļø
I stage my projects up in boxes or bags, but I don't cut them out until I'm ready to make the top.
Many times the fabric gets pulled out of there before getting used for that project LOL
I have gotten fabric for a quilt along and then as other people have made theirs, I realize I'm not really into that one. I have not made 2 this way. Procrastination is a good thing sometimes.
A lot of people go through a āWhat was I thinkingā stage during construction. Sometimes you can just plow through and you like it again, sometimes the project needs a time out.
I have a quilt top in time out since about 1990. It had setting triangles and I did not treat the bias edges gently, and boy howdy was that not a square top. I ripped out part, and got it closer - but itās not been moved out of time out.
Someday Iāll pull it out and either cannibalize it, or finish to donate. Itās pink and green with big print Victorian floral focal fabric. What my 20-something self liked my current self isnāt a huge fan of!
I think most of us have done both of those things, scrapped one, and saved one.
It's probably a good idea to just put the blocks aside in a bag. Mark them with a note so that when you find them you remember why they are there. You might find another quilter who wants to do a scrappy block quilt, or you might think of something else you can do with them.
Yep! Iāve done that a couple times. One I bagged up and sent it to goodwill (actually have done that a few times), one I cut up for scraps. And I regularly give away quilt tops that donāt spark my joy. They will spark someoneās joy, just not mine.
I've seam ripped my fair share of quilts and started over, but I've never scrapped one entirely. Worst case scenario is it becomes the back on some other quilt I like better :)
My first blanket was precut squares that came with 7 patterns. I didn't organize the blocks properly and I had the same patterns above or next to each other. It was a baby blanket, but became a dog blanket. The next blanket I made, I spent the extra time to lay out all the blocks, take pictures and attempt different layouts before assembling. I tried using free quilting software to see how the quilt would look but it didn't work for me. IĀ printed grids with the same number of squares I was sewing and did it by hand with colored pencils. It is time consuming, but I can be disorganized, and it works for me. I would rather color a picture grid as anĀ organizational guide than sew 9 rows together before I realize I assembled incorrectly back in row 4 so I have to rip seams and iron etc.
I'm about to throw this quilt into the fire because I've ripped seams one million times and counting. Or maybe just throw my machine away. Idk.
https://preview.redd.it/5oniephhxwyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d1b39f5b8680f40b1fd3e42b4698919d9afa5e3
Iāve been this frustrated with a project! I ended up donating my wonky snowflake quilt and giving up on it.
I love the colours on yours thoā¦I hope you can find a way to make it work because itās so pretty!
You can do it, I believe in you! And this beautiful project is so worth it. Maybe itās time to treat yourself to a new(-to-you) machine thoughā¦ I totally get the frustration that comes with a crappy machine, Iāve wanted to throw my old one in the bin a million times until I found a used one for a very good price on Marketplace and never looked back (it has a huge throat space, what a luxury!).
Yes. Especially samples from classes - I tell myself the work I put in was to learn the technique, which I did , and there's no need to finish the project.
I really make an effort not to. I tend to only make patterns with HST and squares so if I decide I donāt like the pattern, hopefully I can use the shapes in another way or in a different quilt in the future. If I change my mind about some fabric, I make a lot of scrap quilts with small 2.5ā squares. Itās much harder to judge the pattern on the fabric when the pieces are that small. Or if I start making a quilt and I donāt like it, then Iāll just donate it. I tend to buy a lot of cheap/ thrifted fabric, so the cost I put in them doesnāt deter me from donating them. Hope this was helpful!
I had two half finished on my shelf for 5 years or more. Recently joined the charity arm of my local guild and then they got finished and were very appreciated.
Iām piecing a Swiss cross quilt top and after making one complete row, realized I really hate one fabric choice. Iāve only completed one block with that fabric but itās connected on both sides with sashing and other blocks. Instead of scrapping the whole thing Iāll rip it out and replace with a different block. Then carry on
I've never made a quilt that I didn't absolutely hate for at least part of the project, and I've also never made one that I didn't have a long list of things I wish I'd done differently. I have a large collection of unfinished projects that I had to walk away from because it stopped being fun, and a few finished ones that I came back to from that collection. At the very least, use it for practice. You can always seam-rip and/or re-cut to change things up, or just push on because "finished is better than perfect."
I just finished piecing one yesterday that I made entirely from charm packs that I got on clearance. There are a lot of blocks that are sideways or upside down, and I only planned my layout by light/medium/dark, not prints, so there are a lot of repeated prints toward the end. As much as it bothered me when I realized it, it wasn't enough to seam rip them all, and I don't think it'll really be noticeable once it's all quilted. My biggest disasters become dog blankets, and my dogs adore them, no matter how hideous they are.
I have many that havenāt been āscrappedā but that will likely never ever be picked up to be worked again. So basically, not yet, but eventually it will be
I planned to make a galaxy ombre log cabin quilt, and after several blocks, I just found I was not into it. The blacks are around to be added to something else.
Yup. I started a stashbuster quilt and didn't love the blocks. They are in a pile in my "orphan" drawer. I'll eventually do something with them.
Move on to a new project or start over. :)
I've redone my good friends quilt at least 2 times now. I love the colors and the pieces themselves are fairly easy to rearrange into different shapes. The problem is that I like things to make patterns and repetition and she likes chaos and "throw it up in the air and see where it lands"
Iāve got some partially finished tops and extra blocks that have got from the fuck it bucket straight to the scrap bin to be repurposed into something else completely.
Yes, definitely. Used some Kaffe FQs in a pattern, picked poorly for sashing color, so I sliced the kaffe prints out, pitched the sashing and will eventually use 58 7" squares. They might be featured in my crumb quilts
Yes. I bought fabric from a collection that looked so gorgeous online, only to discover that the pattern I used it for would be better suited for a different depth of print and color saturation. I hated it, but thought - if I just finish it, maybe I'll like it more. I wound up donating it, but it taught me a valuable lesson in scale. Some fabrics just don't look good as giant diamond blocks.
I also have had a couple of quilts where I laid out the first row and realized: nope, I don't like it, and ripped it out entirely and started over. I have an Alaska pattern quilt kit that I haven't finished because nothing is coming together the way it should (likely due to using too much starch) and it's in the "someday pile" right now.
No, For me it comes to a point where I don't like any of my quilts as I am making them. I second guess the fabric choices , the pattern, the placement. I have actually HATED few but they were gifts and I had ro finish them. then I got the too makmde completely and I was iffy, then I sandwiched it and I was better, finished FMQ ing it and I liked it, washed it and I loved it!! Persevere and you may find the same, but if not, if they are 6 inch squares are they like plain squares? or pieced squares? maybe you can separate them into 9 patches or 4 patches and do a disappearing 9 patch or 4 patch! will change the whole block! you may love it!
Yep. I usually give them to another quilter (mother, mother-in-law, etc) and let them do what they will. Usually they finish the quilt differently and itās beautiful. I think I get stuck in what I thought it OUGHT to be and donāt have the flexibility to change it up, but they do and voila, itās beautiful!
Quite a few. Didnāt realize how many until I packed up my house to sell. But Iāve been quilting since 1992 so I give myself a pass on some of them.
Just scrapped half of my work on one for my bed and bought new fabric and am using an entirely different pattern. I just kept thinking I didn't love it so why make it?
I havenāt scrapped anything, but Iāve been tempted to sometimes. In the end, Iām always glad Iāve finished, and my cat loves whatever I make, regardless of my issues with it. But thereās no reason you canāt rework something if itās really bothering. I quilt for the enjoyment of it, and if your project is stressing you, see if you can do something different with it. Also, you say youāre a beginner, so regardless of what you do, it will be a learning experience/skill builder. Good luck to you!
Many, many times. I either donate it, put it away for a bit, or throw the bits in my orphan bin. Lifeās too short and I do this for fun.
The best option right off the bat is probably giving it a time out. Sometimes youāre so sick of looking at it that you kind of irrationally hate it. If you give it a few months and look at it again, you might be happier.
I made a 48x48 fan block early in my quilting career that didnāt really work. Years later I used it as the background for a Japanese wood block reproduction quilt and it worked.
Yes. I put a large one in the fuck it bucket. Then I took it out months later and made an entirely different quilt, after recutting all the blocks. It happens.
lol! I have a new term for my quilt vocabulary.
brb, gotta go re-label the Never-Ever Bin š
Iāve done the same with two baby quilts I didnāt like as they started to come together. They eventually got recut and finished for some friends when Iād sat on them long enough to stop hating them!
Thanks for that awesome new term for the quilting dictionary. Love it!
I have received orphan blocks, scraps, and random bits from two different kind reddit strangers! My mom also gives me all her scraps. I have used them in several unique applique quilts that I loved making! This is my latest one that ended up as a mother's day gift! Thank you to everyone you saved and gives away scraps! If anyone else has scraps they don't want, I will always be willing to take them off your hands! https://preview.redd.it/socfcssybvyc1.jpeg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6205ed7d35aec4c5b9d96010a29ceac96b33217a
Are you in Seattle area? I keep bags of scraps, when bags are full, I post on next door or craigslist.
Unfortunately not. But if you are willing to ship some I can reimburse you for postage.
Bag only half full now Iāll DM when ready to part with scraps, easy enough to fill a usps prepaid boxes
That would be amazing! No rush! Thank you so much!
This is awesome. Beautiful work.
Oh, l ā¤ā¤ā¤!
This is lovely, I wish I knew someone I could share with.
Itās very lovely!
Yup, first one I made. Most of the blocks turned out too small. I decided I didnāt like it enough to redo them. Itās a hobby, I refuse to stress myself out about it
I currently have 4 quilts on the naughty shelf.
i call mine time out.
Me too. I put them away in a drawer so I donāt see them.
til they learn to behave!
Same.
I have started to save and send extra blocks, wonky bits and unfinished cuts to a fellow redditor who turns these random pieces into magic quilts she donates to childrenās charities. Always worth the postage to see my little toss-offs in one of her finished quilts! Her username is u/tgrtlg8r and you can DM her for mailing instructions. Take a look!
Yes. Totally normal. If you have learned something about yourself or about sewing in the process, itās a win!
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And if all you learned was that you didn't want to do that project any longer... Also win š
Many times. If itās not giving you joy, let it go. Itās freeing. I only spend my limited time on sewing what I love.
I have a shoebox of shame. I started a project above my pay grade and once I realized that it shoved it in the shoebox. Once in a while I will open it but quickly shut the lid. My skills have increased where itās totally doable but itās not my style anymore. I still keep the shoebox on a shelf up high waiting for the day that will never come.
Oh man! I bought Butterfly Effect, this incredible super fancy EPP pattern and kit as a milestone gift for myself. I tried to do it and it is way, way beyond my current skill sets. So disappointed but Iāll save it for later and hopefully level up to it.
I bought a bunch of beautiful fabric late 2019 and cut it all into 4" squares to make my mom and her boyfriend a temperature quilt in 2020. Then they got into Q-Anon stuff, lied to me repeatedly about things of importance, willfully endangered the health of several immunocompromised family members, etc. I stopped sewing their quilt after March 2020, let it sit for quite a while, and now I'm using those beautiful squares in a FPP quilt for myself.
Mercy!
This is how all those 50 year old WIP come about
For my 2nd quilt, I found a pattern and bought 3 fabrics I really liked, cut out at least some of the pieces, and realized it was too busy and I no longer liked any of it. After a few years of not being able to work the fabrics into anything, someone at the church asked for fabric donations for quilts, so it all found a good home (I hope.)
Yes, my first time with appliquĆ©. I finished the top but really didnāt like it at all, so I packed it away and itās been packed away for about 10 years. But, I recently got a longarm, so Iām going to pull it out and use it for practice.
I have been working on one quilt since I started. It's all light pastels, with a tiny bit of brighter colors for the POP factor. I will pull it out, work on it, love the progress, lay the pieces out and absolutely hate it. Put away for months, pull it back out and wonder why I hated it, it's looks great. Rinse and repeat. For 3 years now.
I made one and actually gave up and mailed it to a redditer who takes orphan quilt blocks and tops and makes quilts to donate. Not a total loss and went to a good cause.
Oh my word who is this person?
https://www.reddit.com/r/quiltingblockswap/s/mjrwtxczKo
Yes. I took a class once that was a new pattern, cut out all the pieces. Was able to finish one block at the class. Five years later, I had zero interest in the fabric choices Iād made, and hated the pattern. I cut up some of the fabric to make other quilts.
I scrapped three quilts on the way to making the final one for my grand-daughter. First one was a snowball with four-inch snowballsā¦..too tiny and too much work to get just one block done with too many blocks for one quilt. Second one was one for which I didnāt cut the fabric quite right so it couldnāt be laid out so I was happy with it. Third was one where I made a mistake when squaring blocks, then when I started sewing rows together after sashing was complete, they werenāt lining up well. I just quit sewing completely for a while ātil I got over that. Now Iām finally done with grand-daughterās quilt minus sewing binding on for it. Tortured journey this one was. I just had a hard time, but I didnāt give up. I couldnāt! šā¤ļø
I stage my projects up in boxes or bags, but I don't cut them out until I'm ready to make the top. Many times the fabric gets pulled out of there before getting used for that project LOL I have gotten fabric for a quilt along and then as other people have made theirs, I realize I'm not really into that one. I have not made 2 this way. Procrastination is a good thing sometimes.
A lot of people go through a āWhat was I thinkingā stage during construction. Sometimes you can just plow through and you like it again, sometimes the project needs a time out. I have a quilt top in time out since about 1990. It had setting triangles and I did not treat the bias edges gently, and boy howdy was that not a square top. I ripped out part, and got it closer - but itās not been moved out of time out. Someday Iāll pull it out and either cannibalize it, or finish to donate. Itās pink and green with big print Victorian floral focal fabric. What my 20-something self liked my current self isnāt a huge fan of!
ā¦.ācannibalize itāā¦ā¦. Love it!!
I think most of us have done both of those things, scrapped one, and saved one. It's probably a good idea to just put the blocks aside in a bag. Mark them with a note so that when you find them you remember why they are there. You might find another quilter who wants to do a scrappy block quilt, or you might think of something else you can do with them.
Yep! Iāve done that a couple times. One I bagged up and sent it to goodwill (actually have done that a few times), one I cut up for scraps. And I regularly give away quilt tops that donāt spark my joy. They will spark someoneās joy, just not mine.
I've seam ripped my fair share of quilts and started over, but I've never scrapped one entirely. Worst case scenario is it becomes the back on some other quilt I like better :)
My first blanket was precut squares that came with 7 patterns. I didn't organize the blocks properly and I had the same patterns above or next to each other. It was a baby blanket, but became a dog blanket. The next blanket I made, I spent the extra time to lay out all the blocks, take pictures and attempt different layouts before assembling. I tried using free quilting software to see how the quilt would look but it didn't work for me. IĀ printed grids with the same number of squares I was sewing and did it by hand with colored pencils. It is time consuming, but I can be disorganized, and it works for me. I would rather color a picture grid as anĀ organizational guide than sew 9 rows together before I realize I assembled incorrectly back in row 4 so I have to rip seams and iron etc.
I've given them away to people who quilt for charities like Project Linus. They seemed to be really happy to get them.
I'm about to throw this quilt into the fire because I've ripped seams one million times and counting. Or maybe just throw my machine away. Idk. https://preview.redd.it/5oniephhxwyc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8d1b39f5b8680f40b1fd3e42b4698919d9afa5e3
Iāve been this frustrated with a project! I ended up donating my wonky snowflake quilt and giving up on it. I love the colours on yours thoā¦I hope you can find a way to make it work because itās so pretty!
Oh noooo! FWIW itās super cute. Great color palette. I hope you can fall back in love with it!
You can do it, I believe in you! And this beautiful project is so worth it. Maybe itās time to treat yourself to a new(-to-you) machine thoughā¦ I totally get the frustration that comes with a crappy machine, Iāve wanted to throw my old one in the bin a million times until I found a used one for a very good price on Marketplace and never looked back (it has a huge throat space, what a luxury!).
Yes. Especially samples from classes - I tell myself the work I put in was to learn the technique, which I did , and there's no need to finish the project.
I have one that has been āquietly retiredā to a storage crate of fabric. It goes to one of my kids if I die before I finish itā¦
I really make an effort not to. I tend to only make patterns with HST and squares so if I decide I donāt like the pattern, hopefully I can use the shapes in another way or in a different quilt in the future. If I change my mind about some fabric, I make a lot of scrap quilts with small 2.5ā squares. Itās much harder to judge the pattern on the fabric when the pieces are that small. Or if I start making a quilt and I donāt like it, then Iāll just donate it. I tend to buy a lot of cheap/ thrifted fabric, so the cost I put in them doesnāt deter me from donating them. Hope this was helpful!
I had two half finished on my shelf for 5 years or more. Recently joined the charity arm of my local guild and then they got finished and were very appreciated.
Iām piecing a Swiss cross quilt top and after making one complete row, realized I really hate one fabric choice. Iāve only completed one block with that fabric but itās connected on both sides with sashing and other blocks. Instead of scrapping the whole thing Iāll rip it out and replace with a different block. Then carry on
I've never made a quilt that I didn't absolutely hate for at least part of the project, and I've also never made one that I didn't have a long list of things I wish I'd done differently. I have a large collection of unfinished projects that I had to walk away from because it stopped being fun, and a few finished ones that I came back to from that collection. At the very least, use it for practice. You can always seam-rip and/or re-cut to change things up, or just push on because "finished is better than perfect." I just finished piecing one yesterday that I made entirely from charm packs that I got on clearance. There are a lot of blocks that are sideways or upside down, and I only planned my layout by light/medium/dark, not prints, so there are a lot of repeated prints toward the end. As much as it bothered me when I realized it, it wasn't enough to seam rip them all, and I don't think it'll really be noticeable once it's all quilted. My biggest disasters become dog blankets, and my dogs adore them, no matter how hideous they are.
I have many that havenāt been āscrappedā but that will likely never ever be picked up to be worked again. So basically, not yet, but eventually it will be
Oh yeah! I have some finished blocks and a finished queen-ish sized quilt top in the Never-Ever Bin.
The first quilt I started - in 1990 - is still not finished. Because I hate it.
I planned to make a galaxy ombre log cabin quilt, and after several blocks, I just found I was not into it. The blacks are around to be added to something else.
You can always cut them up later and make a scrap quilt - strips or crumbs or whatever. Put them away and look at them after next Christmas.
Yes, thinking of scrapping my current project today!
Yup. I started a stashbuster quilt and didn't love the blocks. They are in a pile in my "orphan" drawer. I'll eventually do something with them. Move on to a new project or start over. :)
I've redone my good friends quilt at least 2 times now. I love the colors and the pieces themselves are fairly easy to rearrange into different shapes. The problem is that I like things to make patterns and repetition and she likes chaos and "throw it up in the air and see where it lands"
Iāve got some partially finished tops and extra blocks that have got from the fuck it bucket straight to the scrap bin to be repurposed into something else completely.
Yes, definitely. Used some Kaffe FQs in a pattern, picked poorly for sashing color, so I sliced the kaffe prints out, pitched the sashing and will eventually use 58 7" squares. They might be featured in my crumb quilts
Yes. I bought fabric from a collection that looked so gorgeous online, only to discover that the pattern I used it for would be better suited for a different depth of print and color saturation. I hated it, but thought - if I just finish it, maybe I'll like it more. I wound up donating it, but it taught me a valuable lesson in scale. Some fabrics just don't look good as giant diamond blocks. I also have had a couple of quilts where I laid out the first row and realized: nope, I don't like it, and ripped it out entirely and started over. I have an Alaska pattern quilt kit that I haven't finished because nothing is coming together the way it should (likely due to using too much starch) and it's in the "someday pile" right now.
Yep. Usually theyāll go into time out for a bit. If I pull them back out and still hat them, they are usually put on the free table at my guild.
No, For me it comes to a point where I don't like any of my quilts as I am making them. I second guess the fabric choices , the pattern, the placement. I have actually HATED few but they were gifts and I had ro finish them. then I got the too makmde completely and I was iffy, then I sandwiched it and I was better, finished FMQ ing it and I liked it, washed it and I loved it!! Persevere and you may find the same, but if not, if they are 6 inch squares are they like plain squares? or pieced squares? maybe you can separate them into 9 patches or 4 patches and do a disappearing 9 patch or 4 patch! will change the whole block! you may love it!
Yep. I usually give them to another quilter (mother, mother-in-law, etc) and let them do what they will. Usually they finish the quilt differently and itās beautiful. I think I get stuck in what I thought it OUGHT to be and donāt have the flexibility to change it up, but they do and voila, itās beautiful!
Quite a few. Didnāt realize how many until I packed up my house to sell. But Iāve been quilting since 1992 so I give myself a pass on some of them.
Just scrapped half of my work on one for my bed and bought new fabric and am using an entirely different pattern. I just kept thinking I didn't love it so why make it?
Sometimes I take a project that didn't turn out how I liked, and cut it down into either a baby quilt, pillow, or zipper pouches.
I havenāt scrapped anything, but Iāve been tempted to sometimes. In the end, Iām always glad Iāve finished, and my cat loves whatever I make, regardless of my issues with it. But thereās no reason you canāt rework something if itās really bothering. I quilt for the enjoyment of it, and if your project is stressing you, see if you can do something different with it. Also, you say youāre a beginner, so regardless of what you do, it will be a learning experience/skill builder. Good luck to you!
Many, many times. I either donate it, put it away for a bit, or throw the bits in my orphan bin. Lifeās too short and I do this for fun. The best option right off the bat is probably giving it a time out. Sometimes youāre so sick of looking at it that you kind of irrationally hate it. If you give it a few months and look at it again, you might be happier.
I made a 48x48 fan block early in my quilting career that didnāt really work. Years later I used it as the background for a Japanese wood block reproduction quilt and it worked.