What does the Quilting Police look like?
10-18-2011, 06:02 PM
#121
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I still have trouble coloring outside the lines. No way Michaelangeo but I bet he could do a Great Quilt as well. I don't think he had to "work at it."
I see and hear this same person when I do anything. Years and years and she just will never "be quiet." Intellectually I know better but my HEART .....and I try so hard to "Please" and I really do want to be a quilter - to do it right - to obey those rules as I do like the "beautiful quilts" and I know if I do follow most of the "rules" I will have better seams, piecing, quilting and .... quilts.
If "you know you will have better seams, piecing, quilting....quilts", you are comparing your art work to some one else's art work. That is a well planned recipe for discouragement. Michaelangelo didn't care, if they noticed he used the faces of workmen and neighbors, on the Sistine Chapel, and neither should we.
Originally Posted by madamekelly
Originally Posted by ccthomas
Originally Posted by JenniePenny
My quilt police who judges my quilts so harshly looks very much like the lady I see in the mirror. Mind you, this police woman only picks on me. Her voice says "if you are going to put the effort into this, you need to make it your best effort. This seam could be moved over just a whisker."
I wish she would be quiet sometimes.
I wish she would be quiet sometimes.
10-18-2011, 06:40 PM
#124
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I have a quilt police officer(hubby). He is a perfectionist,my love my friend. I started to make something the other night and he picked me right up on it. Of course I did it my way and I was wrong. Don't you just love it?
10-18-2011, 08:54 PM
#126
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Originally Posted by sandybuttons
I ran into the QP in the first class I took. Was working on my first sampler and she said in a loud voice no one puts yellow in their quilts!! The look on my face must have shown distress, but if there are QP there are the kind hearted teacher who came to my rescue and said that any color was fair game for quilting and she thought my choice of yellow went well with the purple flowers. I decided the teacher knew best and I find I still put alot of yellow in my quilts. I don't remember what the QP looked like, but I will remember her words for ever,
By the way I am also fond of sea turtles.
I am always out of yellow. The second quilt is the one that brought out the quilt police. LOL
Yellow is happy. I painted my farm house yellow.
10-18-2011, 09:14 PM
#129
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lol...That is a cute drawing. I like the magnifier best
Originally Posted by babyfireo4
Hmmm.... I always picture them as really strict librarians with the "eagle eye" that finds every minor fault and holds a magnifying glass just in case they don't see an error right away ;)
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