My mom  invited me to participate in this project and I thought that it would be fun. I am a beginner quilter and have 4 unfinished quilt sandwiches because I do not know how to finish a quilt yet. I figured this project would force me to finish a quilt for once and I could apply my learnings to my 4 previously started projects. Boy was I in for a surprise.

Here is one of my quilt blocks. All my blocks resulted in different patterns. The only similarity was the fabric used.

I flipped through a quilt book and decided that I wanted to use the Wild Goose Chase (variation) pattern for my squares. This turned out to be harder that I excepted. Firstly because the block used triangle pieces and I had previously only made quilt blocks from square pieces. And secondly, because it totally threw me that the finished size of the quilt block would be 6" with a 1" margin. My quilt book had templates for the squares but I had to try to do math to make the pieces come out 6". Math scares me so it was a real challenge for me to adapt.

So I gave up on the Wild Goose Chase (literally) and decided to make every block different. I think it was sometime in September (7 months after the project inception) when I finished my blocks.

Since I had to make up my block patterns from the scraps of fabric I had left over after cutting most of the material into the wrong sizes (don't ask me why I didn't cut just a few pieces to test the first block before cutting everything) I got so frustrated that I vowed never to do another project again. I even rehearsed what I would say if someone asked me to do a project: "Sorry I don't do projects."