I found the Quilt Police!!
09-03-2012, 05:15 AM
#24
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 4,688
My husband taught me a trick to solve this. When I get stuck on a quilt and don't know what to do, that night when I go to bed I tell myself to dream about that quilt. Sometimes an answer comes to me in a night or two, sometimes it's a week, sometimes it's during the day. I think our brains come up with more creative solutions while we're asleep. I keep paper and pencil next to my bed to write ideas down.
Telling yourself to dream about something sounds crazy, but it really does work.
Telling yourself to dream about something sounds crazy, but it really does work.
09-03-2012, 06:38 AM
#25
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: St. George Ut.
Posts: 310
Anything that is hand made will never be perfect. That is what makes everything hand made one of a kind. If we wanted perfect then it would have to be made by machine. Everyone makes things a little different. Relax and enjoy what you are doing. I love to quilt.
09-03-2012, 06:44 AM
#26
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Quilting, crocheting, sewing and crafting in my Sewing Room...Peaceful and wonderful !!
Posts: 5,317
LOL no way .. then who was that person in my house looking at my strip quilt the other day ?? and fussing at me about I didn't do it right. OH and by the way she has never sewn a day in her life !
Those are just the voices in your head silly !LOL WE all have them -its called we are our own worse enemy in quilting, sewing and life.
Those are just the voices in your head silly !LOL WE all have them -its called we are our own worse enemy in quilting, sewing and life.
09-03-2012, 10:17 AM
#27
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: small town in Oregon
Posts: 1,575
I always say "quilting is forgiving". After a top is quilted and bound, it is difficult to pick out the imperfections. Really obvious errors of course I fix....but the itsy bitsy ones I let sneak by....
09-03-2012, 04:16 PM
#29
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Timmins, Ont. Canada
Posts: 4,683
I get the same way sometimes but I've gotten pretty good at just shrugging and saying to myself, "Lesson for next time!" and moving on. I rip out some mistakes but I leave a lot of them too. Some day I hope I'm as skilled as my grandmother, who deliberately added mistakes to her quilts! For now, plenty of them happen all on their own, LOL. And most of them wouldn't be noticed by a non-quilter anyway. I don't make show quilts (yet) - mine are designed to be portable hugs, and who will complain if a hug is not perfect!? It's the love that counts.
