Originally Posted by
LynnVT
There are so many things I cannot do at all, but I still love admiring what others do. Things like ballet and Olympic sports, and piano playing, dressage, violin music, flying an airplane or perfect machine quilting. So I just muddle along with what I can accomplish, sing in the church choir, quilt the best I can, take a lovely walk with a friend. There are lots of excuses for being depressed at what you can't do, just enjoy every little thing you can do!
Many years ago before there were quilt shows, I put a quilt into a sort of "fair" called the Big E. It won a blue ribbon. So years later when they started having quilt shows, I entered one I was very proud of. I went to te show and walked up and down every aisle and never noticed my quilt! It was there but totally overshadowed by the "masterpieces". So the question was did I want to continue to make quilts which I enjoyed and hop from quilt to quilt or did I want to spend a year or more working on one "perfect" show quilt? A no brainer for me. I could not bear to work one just one quilt for a year or more. I would feel like I was missing out on all the others I could be making. So there!