Have you ever had something (art or craft) you are working on urn out not quite?

I have had a project go sour on me, but the worst part about it, is that is wasn't my fault whatsoever. I had been making a beautiful vase for my mother for about 3 weeks. Then after I had labored on it for so long and got it perfect, I put it in the kiln, right next to another person's work that exploded in the process, I was so wrecked!

I have certainly had a project turn out poorly. My bad project was a knitted chicken kit that a friend purchased for me when I was a teenager. The problem was not everything was in the kit and some of the yarn was the wrong color. The company certainly didn't know the color of a chicken, as I haven't seen any chickens with pink feathers unless we are talking about a cartoon chicken. I entered the chicken in the fair and received a red ribbon. There was a note left by a judge that my chicken didn't look right with pink knitted feathers and I must admit it was hard to live down the chicken at high school, since I lived on a farm with lots of chickens.

Many! I do wood crafts- I have painted and repainted many things -- I will trace them- and cut them- Sometimes my sig. other cuts them and makes his own lines- lol-- I follow the colors and it just doesn't look right- I sand the darn thing and repaint it again with different colors- I don't know how many times I have had to sand down cheeks and repaint them again- My cheeks never look good- or I'll have a beautiful project and then go to write on it with a paint pen and the pen runs- ARGH!! I can usually fix my projects by lightly sanding and repainting- Can't very well fix a ceramic after it's been in the kiln can you?

Well, I have had a few things turn out not quite right. I got a cross stitch kit once that didn't label the hanks of thread properly so it was really confusing to figure out which color went where. One time I got a kit that didn't have enough thread in it and had to contact the company to get more thread in the right colors, they sent me a whole new hank of threads but they were all different colors than the ones I had already done. I have had paints go on one color and dry to somethign completely different. I just try to work with it unless it is really messed up and then I sent my complaint letters out.

I had the opposite problem with a glaze once. I forgot to stir it properly and when it came out of the kiln the colour was wrong but it turned out a great colour, one I could never duplicate! Failures on other crafts happen often. I tried to knit a blanket and it was so full of holes I could put my fist through it in several spots. Then there were the times I attempted to sew, it was just sad. I won't stop trying different crafts though as I really enjoy learning new things and experiments.

i've had a few projects go awry on me. most recently, i got a teddy bear pattern online and decided to make it half black vinyl and half black velvet. the bear pattern just didn't work out very well and i ended up wasting the fabric. fortunately it was only about 1/4 of a yard of each, but i had high hopes for him.

I love needle craft such as crosstich, I've done many things sometimes when I'm in the mood I finished it so quick. But I have these another piece that I have started last year and until now not finished, I was really dissappointed about it I don't have time to work into. Sometimes I wish If I could cut my self into to so that I can finished all my works.