Originally Posted by
Grammahunt
Best advice I ever received was in relation to free motion quilting. The person giving the mini demonstration I was watching said, "Really, girls, Just Do It". She was right. I had nothing more than some scrap batting and fabric to lose, so I just tried it and found I really could do it. So I pass this advice on all the time. Whatever it is in life, you won't know if you can do it until you try!
Me too. Leah Day says "Just quilt" and in the end, that's what you have to do. No amount of stressing and worry will get the darn thing done.
Another was "said" to me by an exhibition at the UK quilt museum in York. There was a display of beautiful 18th and 19th century quilts. Some of them had quite glaring "errors" - points not meeting, misplaced blocks, wobbly quilting etc etc. Yet they were on the gallery walls, giving great pleasure to their viewers. That was the end of my anxious perfectionism. Since then "good enough" has been my mantra, and I enjoy my quilting much more as a result. (I do understand that for some people, achieving the most perfect result possible is part of the pleasure of quilting, and I admire that, but for me it just caused misery and dissatisfaction - we're all different!)