My quilts aren't a life and death issue. There are times in life where we do need and want the best we can get, have, or achieve. If this is important to you, by all means go for it but I'm humanly incapable of achieving perfection and plan to enjoy my life without stress. A lady in my quilt chapter is very annoyed with us who don't share her need for perfection. She refuses to join swaps with us because we don't buy fabric that suits her; because our workmanship doesn't suit her. She led a class project for us and got very upset because some of us refused to rip our fabric out until it was no longer useable but when we had show and tell of our completed quilt tops, they were all gorgeous. Her's was perfection and gorgeous. Ours were not and gorgeous. We had a ball working on ours while she stressed out over our shoddy workmanship and poor attitudes. . . Luckily life is choices and we are each free to pursue it in our own path. This definitely one of those personal preferences issues and I do applaud those who can achieve perfection but I can't and that's ok too.
Originally Posted by PoopayTwo
Connie, so many times I've heard "Oh, you're too much of
a perfectionist, that's good enough!" I respond to them "If you needed brain surgery would you want a perfectionist or a doctor who said, "Oh, that's good enough." We,quilters are just trying to do our best, right?