I'm a perfectionist (and am obsessive compulsive, too!!) so quilting was a real challenge for me in the beginning because I wanted everything to be...well..perfect. Needless to say it wasn't and I became so frustrated that I quit for a couple years. I never lost the "desire" to make quilts but I needed to quit punishing myself because my efforts weren't living up to MY standards. It's taken me a while to get back into it but what I've learned is that they don't need to be perfect to be "loved". After all, we're not perfect but we're "lovable", right? I realized I wasn't having any fun in creating. I was too "up tight" about getting everything perfect. I wasn't going to enter any of my work in a juried show, was I? So I retrained my mind to quit obsessing about their imperfections and just enjoy the process. Since I've had a different frame of mind, I've created better projects and enjoyed it so much more.