Tough on myself...

OK so today I am sharing what really happened to me! I was quilting the block for this week, and I was really, really , really unhappy with how it was turning out. I have free motion quilted for a long time, and I am really a perfectionist to a point, so the further I was moving along the madder I was getting! I am pinpointing my trouble area: TRAVEL STITCHING in the same spot repeatedly as I am moving about the quilting space. If I deviate from that line even just a little bit it shows up big time with this chocolate thread on white and tan. So, after completing the block I stepped back, took a look at it, and decide that I was going to go in there and just make the travel stitching lines bolder to cover up the discrepancies....No, No, No....this was worse so I took the block off, cut it up, and threw it! HA! I was so mad! I was not going to pull out the seam ripper (this may have taken all night) so I took a deep breath, grabbed the third block I have prepared for next week, and requilted the block with much more success this time! Is it perfect...no! Do I like it better...yes! Am I learning a new skill....yes! Ok so here are my two blocks (one in the trash now, and the other to use in my quilt). Learning something new can be tough, especially when you feel like you already know what you are doing and things are not going as planned. :0)

Sylvia, as for your quilt I made good progress on it Monday of this week, now having 30 block sewn together! I do not usually quilt my quilts like I was talking about in the paragraph above, so don't worry I will stick to my usual method of quilting each block (free handed without following lines, or restitching on lines once I have stitched them :0) It will be beautiful! I am just trying to learn new methods and increase my skills!