When we start trying to be perfect, the pleasure of quilting has been ruined. I'm sure our grandmothers and great grandmothers could say the same things about the quilts they made but we seem to think they were perfect quilters. NOT SO! They were quilting by hand and sometimes there were several women working on the same quilt. That's how quilting bees began. It's hard to believe that all those women quilted on the same level, with the same stitch lengths. Don't be so hard on yourself.