Originally Posted by
ghostrider
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My advice to new quilters is way off the main trend of this thread. It is simply this: Never be afraid to fail. Constant success teaches us little or nothing, the big lessons come from failure...how we handle it, how we alter behavior because of it, how we overcome it. Growth, both as a quilter and as a person, is the result.
Practice pieces/blocks are frequently a good idea. It's also okay to trash them if they didn't turn out as expected. I would rather discard one block than a whole top,
After all, how many of us still have our fourth grade homework around? Or walked perfectly the first time we tried?
I still have things that turn out "not as expected" - I didn't quite understand the directions the first time through - or the directions were wrong!
I've had plenty of "growth opportunities" - doesn't mean I'm always cheerful about them, though!
Or everything you cooked was wonderful?