After reading the posts, I agree with them. Teachers and students have special relationships. Learn techniques and skills. Your quilts are each individual creative pieces. I do counted cross stitch. I have missed many a single stitch but the designers/shopowners where I live are not quick to critize(sp). What you are doing is suppose to be enjoyable -NOT FULL OF STRESS. My fellow stitchers will point out things they notice and usually turns into a teaching...this is how I do this or that. The concensus is "if you're happy, that's all that counts." Life is a classroom. There are people who are booksmart that can't apply what they know. Then there are the others....who do you want to be?