argh

You know that good feeling? That feeling of accomplishment as you are sailing along in a project, getting stuff done, making good time. And then the feeling when it all comes screeching to a halt because of something like this:

Yeah, that patch was just a smidge on the skimpy side, but it was holding together just fine with the paper patch on the back. And then I ripped the paper off and it was quickly evident that there was just not enough seam allowance to keep it together. Exacerbated by the fact that the fabric itself is all vintage and slightly fragile. Sigh.

So, what to do. Well, first of all a good old temper tantrum was called for. I threw the whole thing across the room in disgust and sulked in front of the television for awhile. Stupid darn thing. Rackin' Frackin' pain in the.... *insert less internet friendly curse words here*.

But you know, I couldn't just ignore it and hope it would go away. Its not going to be my quilt, it is a quilt that is looking forward to living with another family who will love and cherish it and also, are waiting for it to arrive. So it couldn't just be thrown into the UFO pile to be ignored with the failures and the problems and sundry sewing related issues with which I do not want to deal. No, this problem had to be rectified. So off I went, in search of another patch to repair it with. And carefully the offending patch was removed. There are days when I am so grateful to the woman who invented the stitch ripper.

See, there it is, the Storm Trooper adorned  root of all my problems:

And there is the gapping hole in my lovely quilt. 

And now, the nice new piece must be carefully hand stitched in. 

And you know, not to brag, but I was very, very happy with the repair. 

Just to recap here it was before I took the paper off, with the original piece (the yellowish/orangish one with the two Storm Troopers on Speeders):

And here it is after the repair with the new piece (a detail of Jaba the Hutt's Desert Skiff):

What had seemed so annoying was now so satisfying. When it was done of course; while I was actually doing it I still very, very annoyed. But when it was in, and pretty much invisibly mended I felt like the ninja of handsitiching. Take that seemingly unsolvable problem!

Comments

[Leni]

Although I neither sew nor quilt , I can empathize when a project that comes along so well suddenly hits a glitch. Your amazing patience and "stick-to-it iveness" always amazes me.
Once upon a time I thought I should learn some sort of handcraft/sewing thing---so I took up knitting and started an afghan. About a quarter of the way in, I lost a bunch of stitches, laid it aside in disgust, and 15 years later , gave it to someone else to "do with as they liked." :)
Too many other things to do---and I really did not like the knitting anyway; so consoled myself with the fact"This is NOT my gift".

[Cyn]

woooo hoooo! that was a great save!!! and i really like the new patch, kind of better than the old beucase it adds a tenion to the pattern if you know that i mean. gorgeous, adn good for you for being so close to done!

[Cyn]

yeesh, I should really learn to spell check my comments...sorry.
(because, tension, and) that feels better :)