Originally Posted by leatheflea
There's enough free motion test squares laying around this sewing studio to pad my cell for the day I crack from trying so hard.
You have a way with words!
I think your quilting looks great, but I know that probably does not mean too much to you if you are measuring yourself against a standard which is higher than mine.
I too yearn to achieve effortless brilliance in all sorts of creative endeavour. My left and right brain wrestle it out daily inside my throbbing head. Sometimes I get into that lovely grove where I can stop battling and something that makes me thoroughly happy appears.( Most days not, though, although lots of things make me happy when I have let them settle for a while.) I think I need to practice mindfulness more- overthinking is as bad for your quilt as wonky sewing sometimes. If you sew the anxiety in, it sort of blurs what you see when you look at your work maybe.