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ladies, ladies, ladies, these are NOT FLAWS in your quilt they ARE CHARACTER marks. Now quit fussing over the little stuff and get them done! LOL
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Originally Posted by gale
I am working on a top and was having trouble getting my seams to stay lined up. So I started doing the glue, which is helping. Well now, when I get a row stitched, I take off my glasses and look realllllly close to make sure my seams are lined up. WHY am I doing that? If I can't see it without my nose an inch away, why does it matter?? I am stuck in this anal mode worrying about my seams being one thread off and I know it's stupid yet I keep doing it.
And I ripped out two areas to line up the seams better. One was pretty bad though-from before I was using the glue. Have you tried measuring the quarter inch on your machine with a ruler,, and using painters blue tape, mark a 'scant' quarter inch all the way across the front of the machine? I do this even on my New machine, or NONE of my seams are straight. I have challenges to sewing straight, and this is my remedy. I can even keep the seams straight while talking! I hope this helps! :thumbup: |
Originally Posted by retired2pa
Relax, gale!!! The Quilt Police aren't going to be visiting any time soon :) If they came every time we (and I mean ALL of us!!) were "off" on our seams, they'd be pretty busy...LOL
No one will know except you...unless you've missed it by a mile (which I doubt)! Quilting hides a multitude of sins, believe me :) Just enjoy the process. The finished project will be great :) |
As far as using glue, I use a glue stick (made for paper). It works well and you don't have to wait for it to dry. Saw this on sewing with nancy!
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We are our own worst quilting police. But you know, I've learned to let myself off with a warning sometimes. If it's REAL bad then, yes, rip it and re-do it. But if its off by the tiniest bit then leave it. Not going to make a difference when you're done and show it to people who compliment your work.
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We want to see a picture when your done
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Love the 3 times rule - I've used it for a while now - if still not perfect (or almost) I use my newest phrase "Close Enough!".
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Originally Posted by EasyPeezy
Do you use starch? Ever since I started using HEAVY starch my seams are
much much better. Give it a try and I'm pretty sure you won't need any glue for piecing. |
Mu husband always tells me "if you didn't point it out to people nobody would even notice including you" so relax nothing in this world is perfect.
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It's your project, stress over it if you must, just don't stress over the stressing! :-P
I'm a Virgo and we can be really, really intensly exacting. The Perfectionist. But I learned to not demand exactness in everything when I volunteered at an elementary school and had to make seasonal posters for the classrooms. It dawned on me pretty fast that the wonderful children enjoyed the entire picture, never noticing that the circle might not be perfectly round at one area. If something really is obviously off, I redo it. Mostly I remind myself that I quilt the Amish way, No one is perfect, only the Lord is. Works. |
Originally Posted by Momsmurf
It's your project, stress over it if you must, just don't stress over the stressing! :-P
I'm a Virgo and we can be really, really intensly exacting. The Perfectionist. But I learned to not demand exactness in everything when I volunteered at an elementary school and had to make seasonal posters for the classrooms. It dawned on me pretty fast that the wonderful children enjoyed the entire picture, never noticing that the circle might not be perfectly round at one area. If something really is obviously off, I redo it. Mostly I remind myself that I quilt the Amish way, No one is perfect, only the Lord is. Works. |
I was told it does not need to be perfect. The amoish say it's a form of art and art is not perfect.
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hey Gale I had a a cousin who got under her quilt in a frame to count the hand stitches to make sure they were the same number as on top of the quilt! She has made 2 quilts over her lifetime and I have done 18 (obviously I do not handquilt any longer!) Don't sweat the small stuff, this is suppose to be fun!!!!!!!
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Gale, if it's going to be entered into a juried show, then I would make sure everything was absolutely more than perfect. But seeing what that would involve, I don't plan on making a quilt to be entered in anything that involves the quilt police. :-P :-P :-P
If I could overcome the Virgo thing, there's hope for you! :thumbup: |
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