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Quilt making is a giant undertaking. Forget about cutting out all the tiny pieces and the hours of labor to stitch them into pleasing designs. Forget about the careful measuring and tracing and trimming and matching. Forget about finding the perfect backing and just the right kind of batting. Even ignore the careful stitches that hold all the layers of a quilt together. The hardest part about quilt making is finishing it. It's more fun than work for most of the project. All the cutting and measuring and stitching is exciting and active, and patterns emerge quickly as tiny pieces zip through the machine. But at the end? All the fun part is finished. The body of the work, the part that takes the most creativity, is lying there, completed, on the table. Now it's time to finish. Finishing takes patience. It can be tedious to slowly hand-stitch the edges of the quilt. It can be difficult to make sure the corners are square and the fabric lies nicely. Yes, quilting. It is nice work to begin, but it can be messy work to finish.
