Interesting question I thought a lot about it and came up with
Neither?
While my quilts very greatly they could be a pattern I followed to the letter, or something I used the knowledge I have about patterns and fabrics to create my own, to somewhere in the middle of, I like that pattern but I'm going to make theses 5 changes. I am not an artists quilting is a way I express the little artistic ability I have.
I am not a craftsman I do well enough that I don't embarrass myself when gifting something I made and I do better on some parts of the process than others but perfection or even something I would enter in to a show to be judged is never going to happen.
I don't call my self a quilter I enjoy the process (most of it) and I try the patterns, idea's, and projects that intrest me but I don't surround myself in it.
It is something that I do for me and I gift those I care to with the things that I make it is not an identity.