One of the things I like to say about us more experienced quilters is that we don't necessarily make fewer mistakes or have issues, but we've learned how to correct them. And often preventative measures so we are better the next time.
I try to do the best I can, but I recognized that maybe 10 years ago with my vision issues, my best quilting is probably behind me... but there is plenty I can still do. So, maybe no New York Beauty, Pickle Dish or an elaborate Mariner's Compass on my to-do list (although I do have a Compass I am planning to do), but there are all sorts of projects I am still quite able to do.
This year while working on the Bonnie Hunter project, I was still severely impaired and couldn't see the stitches. On one easy step (square in a square) I cut some of my pieces short. I was running out of some of the fabrics and couldn't just do new ones, I couldn't couldn't see the stitches to take out the errors, so I decided to do what I could do to fix the bad ones and go ahead and have some way off large square points, ones I normally wouldn't have tolerated, we aren't talking an 1/8th, more like 1/2" off.
For one, between Bonnie's design and the fabrics, it is so busy unless you are looking for trouble/problems, you aren't going to find them. And two, because I'm keeping this one and it's ok for me to have a reminder of I was doing the best I could, and it was pretty darn remarkable all in all
I wouldn't be able to give it away in the state it is in, or if I was making it for someone else.