I Will Never Again........
09-27-2011, 04:45 AM
#41
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: in front of this dang computer instead of my Bernina!(Naples, Florida)
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You are so right. We should start a chapter of Nitpickers Anonymous. No pointing out errors or apologies about our our own needlework allowed. Life is too short to tear ourselves up for not being perfect. Really, anybody ever met a perfect person?? Me, either.
So now it's time for me to stop being chicken, quit practicing, and actually MAKE something!! :lol:
So now it's time for me to stop being chicken, quit practicing, and actually MAKE something!! :lol:
09-27-2011, 05:03 AM
#45
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: League City, Texas
Posts: 504
Everytime I have participated in a block exchange it is shocking to me that they are so poorly constructed and aren't squared and supposedely are done by expert quilters. So I am no longer ashamed of my work. I think I do very nice work, I am very pickey especially if it is going to someone else.
09-27-2011, 05:38 AM
#48
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Shreveport, LA
Posts: 733
In MHO, people pursue hobbies or artistic endeavors for 2 reasons: for the love of the opportuity to express your creative/artistic self, or to prove to yourself/others that you are proficient/perfect in execution of some favorite
endeavor.
I don't want to disparage the 2nd group -if they are happy, then I am happy for them. However I belong to the 2nd group - the "I do many responsible things well, but this is my chance to throw caution to the winds & see what I can do without (much) concern for criticism. The art work of quilting/cooking/knitting/gardening/painting/etc. is the acknowledgement of your own preferences/point-of-view/ and the sense of fulfillment when you can say "This is ME!"
No craft or art can move forward without brave souls taking a chance & making a small or bold change in the status quo.Bring passion to your art, execute it as well as you can, & ignore the negative!!! :thumbup:
endeavor.
I don't want to disparage the 2nd group -if they are happy, then I am happy for them. However I belong to the 2nd group - the "I do many responsible things well, but this is my chance to throw caution to the winds & see what I can do without (much) concern for criticism. The art work of quilting/cooking/knitting/gardening/painting/etc. is the acknowledgement of your own preferences/point-of-view/ and the sense of fulfillment when you can say "This is ME!"
No craft or art can move forward without brave souls taking a chance & making a small or bold change in the status quo.Bring passion to your art, execute it as well as you can, & ignore the negative!!! :thumbup:
09-27-2011, 05:44 AM
#49
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Headed home
Posts: 2,372
Congratulations on getting to this point in your quilt journey. I admire you for it. I, too, had a perfectionist mother, and inherited her penchant. So I am getting over that. Still.
Three cheers for you!!
Three cheers for you!!
09-27-2011, 05:46 AM
#50
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Lowell, MA
Posts: 14,083
Good for you. Quilting is supposed to be fun, not work, and we make it work when we are too hard on ourselves and too critical. I'm one of those as I am a Virgo and basically a perfectionist (in certain areas of my life - let's be clear here, it's not in everything), but I try to do my level best on whatever I'm working on.
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