Unintentional intentional mistakes
Just curious. Does anyone else make unintentional mistakes in your piecing but then intentionally leave the mistake in the finished top? Maybe I'm just weird, but I have a psychological aversion to perfect quilts. If I make a minor mistake (i.e. turning a sub-unit the wrong direction in a block), I usually undo the seam and correct it. But first I evaluate how it will look in the finished project. If it isn't going to be a huge, glaring distraction from the overall pattern/layout, I'll leave it in. I try not to leave more than 1 mistake; I do care about the quality of my work. And, as any quilter knows, there are sometimes mistakes that we don't detect until the project is complete. So some of my projects have more than 1 mistake but I don't consider it the end of the world.
My apologies to all the perfectionists out there who are cringing right now. You do you. It is what it is.