You Learn More From Failure!

"I learned more from my failures than I did from success".

A little further on he sings "if I were willing to lose, I could win."

(If you want to check out the song, look up "God Bless The Other 99" by Barry Manilow on YouTube).

That song has always been one of my favourites and has always resonated with me.

On our quilting journey, we will all – like Barry in his music career - come across failures, setbacks and mistakes.

As Barry sings, it's the ones who hold their chin up, "get back in line" and carry on who ultimately find what they're looking for.

To me it's the same in quilting. We will all come across challenges and the difficult bits. We'll all end up throwing a block across the room in frustration...or rather, switching off the machine in disgust and walking out on it.

BUT!!!

Come back to it tomorrow. Get back in line. Hold your quilting "chin" up.

It's just a setback. It's just fabric and thread.

And there's no need to get discouraged, nor give up.

A good night's sleep, and a few days' away from your machine can often work wonders. Your machine will stop sulking and start playing nice again. The fabric will behave, and your seams will snap together as if by magic.

You quilting muscles have strengthened and next time, you'll know precisely what to do.

Life rarely puts us on a straight line to wherever it is we want to go; more likely it's a meandering, up and down line that trips us up and pushes us over many times along the way.

Quilting is no different.

Embrace the failures and the mistakes.

Use them to learn from.

And very definitely laugh, put your chin up and get back in line.

You'll thank yourself that you did.

Happy quilting!