My Personal Quilt Police Person
#21
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Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Southern United States
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I think I am more of a middle of the road quilter. I will undo something but only if it's going to drive me crazy. If I can live with the goof I do. I want to love my finished work so I try to do my very best but over the last year I have begun to refer to myself as "the reformed perfectionist." I just noticed a small wrinkle in the backing of a quilt sandwich. Since I spray baste there is no way I'm going to try to yank it apart at this point. I choose to believe it will disappear when washed
#24
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Somewhere in Time
Posts: 2,697
Once I see something, I have to fix it; otherwise, when I look at that project, that is always glaring back at me. While I was more of a perfectionist at one time; now, I am more accepting of my finished project. It only matters that I know that I made every effort to do my best. I am seldom able to settle for good enough. But there are times when even that is my best.
#26
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Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Posts: 939
I try to do my best on all my projects. Glaring errors are fixed. I want seams and points to match as best I can, but I am not fanatic about it. I heard, or read, a long time ago that one way to distinguish a handmade item is that it will have at least one small error or small imperfection. I believe it is the Amish who always purposely put in an error because only God is perfect.
#27
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 4,391
I try to put an almost finished quilt on my "design wall" in the living room where I can look at it whenever I walk in there. Sometimes something glares at me and says, "Fix me." Then I change it.
Once I took out the center nine blocks of an Around the World. It is not easy to get that back together, but I was much happier with the results, and that was a charity quilt.
Once I took out the center nine blocks of an Around the World. It is not easy to get that back together, but I was much happier with the results, and that was a charity quilt.
#28
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Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 9,018
I don't aim for perfection..that would be extremely egotistical and impossible, but I do fix a goof......large or small...and thinking back, of all that I have made....caught things before completions!
The most frequent goof is putting a piece of a block the wrong way...although I keep a sample block on a small design easel in front of the machine...to remind me...sometimes, after I sew it and "check", there it is..bold as brass! Frogstitch!
The most frequent goof is putting a piece of a block the wrong way...although I keep a sample block on a small design easel in front of the machine...to remind me...sometimes, after I sew it and "check", there it is..bold as brass! Frogstitch!
#30
I think I do the blocks really well but what drives me nuts is the color placement of my scrappy quilts. I have the design wall in my TV room and DH and I will move those blocks over and over, sometimes it takes days to get it right. But-----I love it when I'm done. Yes, I am my own quilt police too.
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