No, a quilter doesn't have to be a perfectionist. When I took my 6 week class at a local quilt store to learn how to quilt, there were just 3 of us in the class. The first week we were told to bring back a 9 patch block which measured a certain size. It took me 3 tries to get just one that size. Another woman made a perfect block but after that, she never brought another block to class. She had to have them perfect and thus she couldn't finish any of the blocks assigned. I felt sorry for her that she couldn't see how beautiful her blocks were. Perfect doesn't get finished. I had a huge queen size quilt finished completely by me on my little old plastic Singer in 6 months. Don't be like her.