View Single Post
Old 10-03-2013, 04:39 PM
  #18  
cathyvv
Super Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Posts: 8,291
Default

I used to feel that my quilts had too many imperfections, too. But I never wanted to make a single quilt and SELL it, so that has never been an issue for me. I just wanted to have fun and be creative.

I realized that 'perfect' doesn't happen when I looked at a quilt I liked in a magazine. It had a very obvious set of unmatched points. I am nearsighted and have double vision, so if I could see the unmatched points on it without minutely inspecting it, it was BAD.

But it was still beautiful.

That was an 'aha' moment. It was also the moment that I truly started to enjoy the entire creative process of making a quilt.

Most of the quilts I make are given away to family or to children in the foster care system.

I admit that a few of them need to find the "right beholder" to see the beauty in them. But they will all find a home eventually, and that home will always be with the "right beholder", a person who can appreciate the quilts for what they are - a gift of love.
cathyvv is offline