Originally Posted by Renoquilting
I would tell her, "It hurts my feelings that you never seem all that excited by my quilts or impressed by my efforts."
Yes, this! :) And I wouldn't even wait for her to ask, I would just plain come out with it the next time she commented on my quilt.
But *only* if I were sure that I was ready to hear what she has to say. :mrgreen:
If she is very talented as you say, she may have a lot of helpful suggestions about your work but she's trying to zip her lip, for the sake of tact.
Someone like that could end up being the best friend you have, as a growing quilter, *if* you are open to hearing how to not cut the points off of your stars, or how to even up your stitches or how to make the border lay flatter or how to jazz up your free-motion work or whatever. :)
It can be hard to hear criticism - when we labor over something for so many hours, we really don't want to hear how we could have improved on it. We want to hear how pretty it is!
But, if we can stand to listen, we might hear something that will help us to improve the next one.
On the other hand, she might be a real pill and end up nit-picking everything from the choice of colors and values to the style of quilting to the misses on the piecing to the weight of the quilting thread to the visible stitching on the binding!
You just never know - so that's the
second reason that you have to be really sure that you want to hear her honest opinion! :hunf: :lol: