Thread: Do you have an "artistic tempermant" about your quilting?
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Old 08-04-2011, 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Afton
So I'm a quilting novice, I've made a couple, but hand pieced and quilted, and I wing the patterns for the most part. My family is very encouraging and impressed with my work. But... my dad won't stop insisting that I should turn it into a business and my sister gives lots of "advice."

Do any of you feel your creativity can be stifled by too much input? Do you have an artistic temperament? How do you deal with criticism?
lol. I think everyone thought I was going to go to some art school and become this famous artist. Turns out I really didn't want to turn my talents into a full-fledged career. My friend's mom had the nerve to tell me that I was just "wasting my talents" by not going to school and kind of judged me in comparison to her daughter, who graduated top of our class and was going to school for some eco-enviromental career (or as my friend calls it "professional treehugger). That really hurt. But if anyone were to make the criticism now I would say, "I don't care. I'm happy just where I am right now".
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