I have *really* wanted to make a New York Beauty for a long ime. My problem was, I don’t foundation paper piece so therefore, I didn’t have on a New York Beauty. And the thing is, if you don’t work on it, it doesn’t get done. Funny how that works. Time, sometimes lots of time, goes by and you still don’t make the quilt you want. It’s like the “I don’t want…” gets in the way of the “I want….” Well, when you put it that way, it’s kind of silly. So stop that.
Set aside the time to do hard things. To make challenging quilts. It’s ok if your first block stinks. It’s ok if it’s upside down and backward, because let’s face it, paper piecing *is* upside down and backward. When you keep doing it, it gets easier. You make fewer mistakes and spend more time sewing than with your seam ripper. You get faster and better. You finish a block and it looks pretty cool. You finish another and it looks pretty cool too. Pretty soon you’ve found some momentum and the blocks start piling up. Work that momentum and you’ll have enough blocks for a whole quilt. Will the finished quilt be perfect? No, but you’ll have grown in the process and you’ll be a better quilter for it. That’s cause enough to celebrate.
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