[QUOTE=Grannyh67;5950408]These threads have made me feel more like diggin in and going for it. I too am afraid of messing up. I seen a quilt the other day in my LQS and it wasn't perfect either. It had some machine quilting done on blocks and several of the blosks were crooked, lol I thought at the time that looks like something I could do. It made me feel better though seeing others mistakes. QUOTE]
One of the things that encouraged me to abandon the quest for perfection was going to an exhibition of vintage quilts at the Quilt Museum in York (UK). Several of those quilts, being looked at with such reverence by visitors, had quite noticeable "errors" - wobbly quilting, points that were far from perfect, lopsided blocks etc etc - but they were still beautiful, still on display for us to enjoy. I don't think anyone other than ourselves and other quilters notices our mistakes - to most people, to make a quilt seems miraculous! I slowly learned to forgive myself the lack of perfection in both piecing and quilting, and if another quilter doesn't approve, that's their problem, not mine. I do take great pleasure in knowing that I've made a quilt as well as I can, but not to the point of it becoming stressful rather than a pleasure to make.