I refuse to admit my quilts are anything short of perfection.
I usually tell people the kind of reaction I'm expecting:
I brought my new quilt for you to admire. OR
I always admire your quilts. Do you have any suggestions for my beautiful, finished quilt for the next time?
That way no one should be telling me to take a seam ripper to something I consider done. And on top of that, silly people who don't even quilt (who get comment #1) are disinvited from critiquing my quilts. If you think I could do better, make one yourself! Drives me crazy when I have a perfectly beautiful quilt & somebody who can't even stitch together a pillowcase tells me it would "look even better" if I went back and added more hand appliqué, did a 1/2" instead of a 1" stipple or "just took an extra second or two to turn the edges of appliqué under". Right. Because we all know that turned edge appliqué only takes a couple seconds! No, no, no! Non-quilters' are not allowed to do anything but stand in utter awe of my quilts.
