Originally Posted by deedum
I hope to finish the binding tonite on a quilt for my dh, it it a pattern that I made up due to the material design itself. I am just not thrilled with quality of my work. It won't ever win any award, but my dh says it doesn't have to be perfect for him! Bless his heart. I had hoped to finish it for his birthday in November, then my goal was Christmas, now my goal is New Year's. Ever glad to be done with a project? Sometimes I think I am just no good at this stuff. Then I look at it and think it is not that bad. Then I think I am just not cut out for this stuff. Then, like a nut I turn around and start again......
Yes, all of the time. With that said, every quilt that I make ends up being more complex than the previous one, so I must be making some kind of progress :-).
A few years ago, my DSIL, who was a quilting instructor, was very ill. I had just started sewing and quilting so, to say the least, I did a poor job of almost everything. I had joined an on-line quilting group, whose members encouraged me to make a quilt for her. It was only the 2nd quilt that I had ever made and there was scarcely a point that matched and the quilting was uneven and too far apart for the thread, which I later found out was a rather poor choice for quilting. I did manage to select some beautiful colors :-). That quilt made her cry for joy, because someone had made such a "beautiful quilt" for her. I'm happy to say that she recovered from her illness, and I like to think that my gift encouraged her in her battle against that illness.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.