Oh, I feel your pain. I decided this year to make a quilt for my husband. It was the first time I had made anything over the size of a baby quilt. All of those scrappies with just tying them off. So, after going with DH to the LQS, picking out his fabrics, and all the notions needed I went to work. I ended up with what I thought was a great top. I then sandwiched it and took off on the SID only to find that several of the seams were coming apart. I was devistated. I wanted this one to be perfect. DH came home and found me crying and feeling completely defeated. He wanted to know what was wrong with just handstitching it the best I could. I told him that it would probably show seeing as how I am not the best at hand stitching. You know he said something that I never thought off. He said 'Babe, it doesnt matter if it has a couple of flaws it well still be perfect because you thought enought to do it, you did youre best at the time, and the flaws are what makes it unique." I thought to myself one, what a man and two, he is right. So dont worry about it unless its some huge mess that can be seen from a mile away. It is the thought and time that you put into it that counts. After all do you see him entering it in some contest later on. Probaably not.