I guess I have to admit I'm pretty anal about getting the seams to line up and for the points to be totally there.
My biggest frustration is with the so called "1/4" quilting feet on our domestic machines..there is no trusting those if you want to be dead on...I do test sew outs...and have determined the "sweet spot" on my Viking and now have a lower stress level when piecing a quilt..
I also recently bought an Accuquilt Studio cutter and that is awesome for consistant cuts..anyone else out there with one?
Anne

I have the Accuquilt Go Cutter and I love it!! Some day I'd like to "upgrade" to the studio but won't be for a while....

I'm also a new quilter, and my quilts are also far, far from perfect. If I tried to make a perfect quilt, I would never finish a single one! The quilts that I have gifted to friends and family members have been very much appreciated and loved, even though they weren't perfect. I try to do my best on every block, and on every quilt - but I let the imperfections pass as part of my learning process.

Jan

Hmm, I'm not sure. I do the best I can. Sometimes I rip and try again, but mostly I just do my best to make the pieces fit. I try not to make this hobby hard work. I try to learn something on every piece I make and then move on. If one block doesn't come out the best, then I try to learn from it and do the next one better. I want it to be fun and relaxing. We can be too hard on ourselves.

I guess I'm a type A personality...I'm the same way when I'm working on my longarm machine on customer quilts...I know I beat myself if there's just one little itty bitty stitch out of place...I've done more frogging in the last 5 1/2 yrs..there should be a froggers Hall of Fame..boy I'd be right near the top I think. I keep trying to tell myself no one will ever see anything because they don't have their nose on the quilt...well I'm not taking that chance as it could come back to haunt me if anyone did notice.. for myself on my own quilts I probably would let it go as long as it wasn't really blaring..I think...LOL
Anne

If it's off really bad and will be noticable I'll take it out just where it didn't line up right. If it's not too bad it's nothing that quilting won't hide anyway.

The quilting can hide a lot of boo-boos.