It's the love that goes into a quilt that matters. FORGET the quilt police.
I sew because I enjoy it and I find inspiration in trying new things with fabrics.
I'm definately not a cookie cutter quilter.
You don't need the most expensive tools out there to enjoy this, or fabrics or threads.
As long as you are happy and you enjoy sewing/quilting that is all it matters.
I intentionally do my own things and create my own designs regarding quilting and I purposely use colorful fabrics mixed in with others just to piss off the quilt police in our area. Amazingly what I create comes out nice.......so I'm told by some of them.
Just do as you please with it and KNOW THAT YOU ARE A QUILTER.