You are just living through a visit by the quilt police. We think you are terrific even before you show us your quilts. My 'masterpiece quilt', that gets raves when I show it to friends, has a very obviously crooked area in the binding. I had a small seizure while trimming. Quilt police would call it trash, but my nieces are fighting over who get it when I am gone. Nothing a judge would say about it, would be as big a thrill as having my DNs fighting over it. (I am making each of them a quilt of their own, they just don't get to know that, until they unwrap them.) Whose opinion should matter more?