Not feeling it for my latest sewing project

[Coldtoeswarmheart]

It's a really simple messenger bag, ising templates I've used successfully before. But my lining fabric has wrinkles sewn into the corners which I need to unpick. The first outer fabric was horrible so I ditched it, and the canvass/ decovil combo I chose for the second try isn't bonding properly.

Humph.

I may put this to the back of a cupboard and try again in a couple of months.

Does anyone else do this?

I had a slightly later Viking for many years and it was a complete workhorse (I used it for horse rugs and anything horse related that needed repairing).

I gave it to a friend and expect it to still be going so I would definitely have it serviced and try again.

But I like old machines and buy any I come across that are lovely examples.

I finished a quilt last year that I first started 2+ yrs previously. I kept buying different fabrics for the back & then the front didn't work well, either. Argh. Now it sits finished but unloved on shelf. Other people think it's fine but all I see are ugly bits!!

I think that's part of it, I have an unhelpful perfectionist streak and sometimes I can't see past the wrinkle/ skew grain/ wonky topstitching to the actual thing.

Or maybe my first attempts were just crap

Me too, very unhelpful perfectionist streak. I regularly unpick an inch of top stitching for the absolutely minutest deviation over two or three stitches. I just can't leave it!

I use one of these feet for top stitching, allows precision, sad I know.

www.tysew.co.uk/parts-accessories/feet/bernina-edgestitch-foot-10?language=en&currency=GBP&gclid=CI6ElfXqycwCFVQ_GwodN0oNcQ

Totally agree with the perfectionism. I think that everyone at a certain standard will be hugely self critical. I know that I am.
However, there is sewing for everyday wear, say knocking up some T-shirts and making a Vogue pattern.
Who looks at the sewing on their shop bought T-shirts (unless it's come apart)?
Don't compare apples with pears, as the saying goes.
I tend to sew clothing that I can't buy in the shops. I would not sew jeans or T-shirts at the moment because there is no point.

When I do look closely at the clothes I buy they are often a bit wonky anyway.

I'm making the bags as they are a chance for their final owner to have a bright funky lining to a sober denim-type outer, so as you say, they are things I can't buy for them.

And when DH's bag is finally finished, I have a rather nice Vogue 8741 bag pattern which I'm planning to make in a nice sober outer fabric. With a Wonder Woman print lining