Phyl

So many good reponses but.......it just flashed into my head that you may want to cut it into a few smaller quilts! When smaller, you might bind each one in a different color that is already in the quilt. It may just be "TOO MUCH" at one time! It really is beautiful but some patterns in dark colors can sometimes overwhelm you. You might even keep a part of it as a small medallion in the middle and put on some straight borders, then some rows of it, then some straight bordering again. Bind it in the red and voila! I think you will love each piece of it. Can you imagine? You could make the smaller pieces and love it in so many new ways! Good luck to you with it.(If your response to reading this was, "OMG! NO", then put it away and get it out of your mind! Then it will never please you and life is too short to torture yourself with "I HAVE to finish it." Don't let it finish you! :lol: :roll:

marta

I honestly like your quilt! It looks very close to being done. I have had the same experience. What I did was to put it away for awhile, get something else to work on, then after several monts, get it out and work on it again.
Our Guild stresses that when we get to certain points on our work, just to put it away and leave it. It has worked for me.
Good luck, and don't be too hard on yourself. I really like it! If it is borders you need, I would use some lighter colors to tone it down some, then end with a dark again. I have been told to use darker colors on ending borders, as our eye can see the end then, moreso than with a lighter color.
I made a Patriotic Wall Haning before I knew much about quilting, and didn't know that last fact. I ended it with White, and wished later I had done the dark. So, I took it apart and improved the borders with a dark and some tying, and like it really well.
It is easy to get "stressed out" with Quilting.
Martha Tompkins
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Olivia's Grammy

I have a king size quilt top that I made in the bow tie pattern with real silk neckties and white silk in the alternating blocks. I think it's 215 blocks and no two are the same tie. I can't decide how to quilt it. Every time I think I have a good idea I change my mind.

hilandflwr

I've donated quilts I don't "love" to charity organizations, and I've also sold quilt tops on ebay.

I think your quilt is beautiful, but I understand how you feel. I will find every excuse imaginable not to work on a quilt or project if I don't like it or if I'm unhappy with it for some reason.

Someone will love it. Aren't you glad we're all so different?

rufree4t

I think it is beautiful. The problem is you have worked on it so long and so hard that you can't stand it now. Put it in a box and put the box on a shelf. Leave it there for 6months to a year. Then take it out and look at it again. I think you will see the beautiful quilt you have created and be anxious to finish it. When I have been frustated with a project that is what I do and 9 times out 10 I finish it. Only a begger man's quilt of hexagons have defeated me.

materialgrl

I agree its beautiful, What about having a raffle at your church or local disabled vet, or fire hall, they could use the money and people that really like it will buy tickets, so it will go home with someone who really loves the quillt and you are helping out a group, I know most fire depts around her are volunteer and could relly use the donation.

paintedquilt

I really like it. However, put it away for awhile.

I have a friend who was working on a quilt, which had a million and one pieces and she grew to hate it. She put it away and about one year later she took it out and finished it. She entered it in a quilt show and dadgum didn't she win third place :!: :!: :!: Needless to say, its one of her favourite quilts.

pegquilter8

So, I agree with all that you all have written. Finish it and give it away. Go make a wonderful something you can love. We've all been there.

QuiltingSue

I made a quilt that I absolutely hated, and still do. It was made from the Blooming Nine Patch pattern. I had it quilted but I still didn't like it. After much encouragement from my quilt guild, I entered it in our annual St. Patrick's quilt show. It won Best of Show. Just goes to show that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. That still didn't make me like it but maybe one day when it is passed on down, whomever gets it will like it. Enter it in a quilt show - who knows - it might win.

quilt-n-frenz

:mrgreen: It's beautiful.If I were you I would try to find another means to recycle it somehow.
You did an awesome job.It looks so happy and vibrant.Can you make it into a single maybe?quilt-n-frenz :?