Are Your Quilts Perfect?
05-28-2018, 03:59 AM
#41
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Heart of Colorado's majestic mountains!
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No, my quilts are not perfect. However, I do not leave glaring errors. I fix or re-do things that need to be done better. At the same time, I do not examine the efforts of someone else. If there are mistakes, that is OK with me. I understand the process. I feel badly when someone points out their mistakes to me. I want them to enjoy sharing their work and not worry about the opinions of others. Enjoy your work. When you purchase the work of another person you choose to admire their product and you will destroy that pleasure if you critic it to death.
05-28-2018, 04:55 AM
#43
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Augusta, Maine
Posts: 363
For those of you who sell your quilts, are they always perfect? My family is after me to sell some of mine, but none are ever perfect and I feel like they have to be in order to sell them. There is always a couple logs in a log cabin the wrong color, or a cat in a row of cats that is sitting crooked or points not matched, or some such flaw and I just feel that makes it not quality to sell. What do you think?
Of of course not, they are homemade. Even the Amish put a flaw in theirs.
05-29-2018, 04:05 AM
#48
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Milton DE
Posts: 3,189
Your right...nothing in life is perfect...but...don't you hate but's...
I thought all my first quilts when making them for friends and family were just perfect. Well, as I cont. to learn I now wish I could reclaim all those first quilts back...UGH....what I didn't know or do right. Though, I'm sure you all would say it's the "thought that counts"...But when I think abt those first quilts I want to reclaim and redo!
To sell I do think it's your level of skill...
I thought all my first quilts when making them for friends and family were just perfect. Well, as I cont. to learn I now wish I could reclaim all those first quilts back...UGH....what I didn't know or do right. Though, I'm sure you all would say it's the "thought that counts"...But when I think abt those first quilts I want to reclaim and redo!
To sell I do think it's your level of skill...
05-29-2018, 09:46 PM
#50
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,585
I know that I make mistakes when I make quilts (or anything else for that matter). I can only strive for excellence, and if I ever achieve that, I'll be happy. Perfection is a state for our Lord, not for us. I make my quilts with love and the best materials I can afford. Every stitch is a part of who I am. I was told for many years by some that I could never make quilts. My reply, "Just watch me!" I've made quite a few, and I'm not finished yet. No, my quilts are not and never will be perfect, but they are sure made with love. By the way, I am quite proud of the quilt pictured i my avatar -- I think it's beautiful, but it's definitely not perfect.
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