Tackling scary sewing projects

In my quest to be a better quilter, I started the Single Girl quilt last spring.  There were a bunch of people doing a sew along, and I figured I'd jump in because I loved the pattern, and I'd have lots of help and ideas with curved seams.

I started off full steam ahead, got lots of piecing done, and then slammed into a wall when it came time to actually sew the curved pieces together.  I didn't like all of the pinning, holy cow!  I got poked like crazy... and I didn't like how it would never lay flat for me.

I put the project away, and pulled out a whole lot of other ones to distract me from the scary curved seams.  A few months went by and I attended a Portland Modern Quilt Guild meeting where one of the 10 minute tutorials was about glue basting a curved seam, so that way you don't have to use pins.  I left the meeting excited about the idea, and bought the glue... and still the project sat.

Finally 2012 rolls around, I am bound and determined to finish my pile of WIP quilts, and come across the Single Girl quilt.  I pick up where I left off, curved seams.  I start using the glue, just like I was taught, and guess what... it worked.  Like, it worked so well, I made a whole bunch of them!!

And so, I will continue the Single Girl quilt because I busted down that wall!  Woohoo!!  Let's keep up the motivation shall we?? Please??? :)  What quilting projects have you stalled out on, and what did you do to leap over the hurdle and continue on?