Kara

What is the hardest, or scariest, project you have every done? (maybe it was scary at the time)
Even started (and didn't finish for various reasons - is it a UFO?)?
It may even be one you learned the most from or advanced your skills.

I did a quilt for my mom a few years ago with 240 curved seams. That was really scary when I started. I hadn't been quilting long, maybe a year. Bit the bullet and dove in head first. Nervously cut out all those curves. It was also the biggest quilt I had done at that point. Glad I did. It turned out great. Bonus: I'm not afraid of curved seams anymore.

Now, very very tiny applique. But I'm diving in head first. And I'm practicing and I'm getting better.

Shelley

I quilted this baby on my DSM, prior to the long arm. Never again! It was my oldest daughter's graduation quilt. It's a king size. It was also the first quilt that used templates for cutting.

lyndawn

My very first quilt. My mom was meeeaaaan! I wanted to make a Carpenter's Wheel. It was before there were instructions for HST. I did all with triangle and square templates. No rotary cutter. My mother did not tell me it was a hard pattern.

I didn't realize that the triangles were not actually triangles. They had to go a certain direction. I quit. My mom finished it for me. I used it every night.

I am really glad I learned this way because somehow everything else seemed easy after trying that one and the next one went together like a breaze:)

Lynette

sewnsewer2

I felt the same way when I made a drunkards path quilt. I'm not so afraid of curves now, but am scared to death to try paper piecing. Go figure. :lol:

quilterj

beautiful quilt.

Janstar

This is mine. BOM that we did at our LQS. Really difficult but I learned a lot!

sandpat

So far, this has to have been my hardest. I hand pieced the compasses with plastic templates that I made and then hand pieced the border. I learned tons...I learned...never to do that again! It is an oversized queen and I also quilted it on my old Singer.

Janstar

That's really pretty Pat. I also learned never to do that same quilt again! The one in my pic.

butterflywing

shell, that is beautiful quilt. and the hard was worth it. aren't you proud of yourself?

butterflywing

and sandpat, really, you joke about it now, but aren't you glad you did it? how many other quilters have gone that far? not me! LOL!