Originally Posted by Becky13
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE quilting, but am frustrated at the sense that everything I do has to be perfect. Reading about the latest gadget that we can buy to make SURE that we get that 1/4" (minus two threads), just makes me sigh... And how we scurry to take out a seam when our blocks are off 3 threads. All the talk about being sure that everything is "exact". Are we quilting because it's fun? We're making a loving gift? Or is perfection the goal?
Oh my, perfection, not in a million years. I once made a quilt that just would not square up but I finished it anyway. I lovingly gave it to my three dogs for a bed and that old quilt is now ten years old and the dogs take very good care of it. So-----------------perfection, no, but my little dogs didn't mind one little bit. I look at this old quilt every time I start a new top and give myself permission to just enjoy what I am doing and making sure I am pleased when it is finished.
My sister has a hissy fit every time she visits me because she sees the dogs laying on a hand made quilt. I never saw the need to tell her why my little dogs have such a lovely bed. I do however, agree with one of the quilters who said she had to teach you in the best possible fashion and that means perfect 1/4 seams, less a thread or two. I would be very disappointed to take a quilting class and not be taught by a really good teacher. (Very good my teachers don't come home with me, huh?)