Sure, put them in the fair! Yes, we are hard on ourselves.
When I made a baby quilt for my hairdresser and then a hooded baby towel, she went crazy for my stuff. She says I'm a real artist and says it's like "folk art." I hadn't thought of it that way; I only saw that it didn't look like it came from a factory.
She talked me into selling some of my stuff in her shop! I'm loving it. And although I can't sew a straight line (really), it works now, at least in MY mind. And it is an original.