The joy of quilting is that there's something for everyone who wants to participate. I love learning new techniques and improving my skills, but I also like to improvise. I view "mistakes" as problems to be solved or new directions to go in when making an art quilt and some of my best quilts have arisen from technical challenges that I had to overcome, or less than perfect techniques that I had to camouflage. Some of my worst ones have too
! I think the trick is to remember that techniques are tools nothing, more and nothing less. Having a bunch of tools in your tool kit and knowing how to use them gives you options, but the way I look at it is that's all they are, options.
Rob