You know, when I was little and the ladies gathered around to do their quilting, they were quilting for a need and also just happy to be around each other talking and remembering. They did not worry about perfection, they did it out of the love of putting some fabric together and making something pretty.
In slavery times, they put it together for a need, and they were beautiful, not perfect but beautiful. Not once have I read about quilts that were created in history that they had perfection anywhere in the document.
I want to quilt for the love of putting some fabric together to make something pretty that I can share with someone else. I want it to be pretty but perfection is something that man can not acquire.
I want to quilt for the passion of sewing, creating and communication with others about their experiences when they quilt. I want to learn more and more but not to be perfect, that task carrys too heavy a burden.
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