this went to the perfectionist 8 yr old grandson, to let him try and learn that mistakes are okay, you just learn to fix them. And i learned how to post pictures this weekend with the daughters help. hallaluya

Mistakes are opportunity knocking at your door! It just about tore my door off the hinges last night!

I think it's a beautiful quilt and I don't see anything wrong with it!! And congrats for learning to post pictures! :D

Awesome Quilt!

yes, we send the kids to college for a reason. the engineer daughter had to come home and teach me. may we all be so blessed.

Awesome quilt! Your GS is very lucky to have a talented giving grandmother like you!

Wooooooo. I wanna do one like that!

nice job!

I love it. I dont see anything wrong with it either. What is the pattern called . Thanks Teresa

Wonderful work :thumbup:

LQS had a block a month club. i purchased one block of squares and l paper piecing pattarn each month. took me about a yr and half at that rate to get it done. and i learned to paper piece. loved it. but occasionally, i cut the pieces too small, and then had to piece them together, cause you have to remember to pin the matarial on the back of the paper so you can see the lines to stitch on. and the wrong side of the material is facing the back side of the paper. LOL you really can't do two or 3 things at the same time, like us women always try to do. you know.

It turned out beautiful and was worth all the work.

Awesome quilt!

Lovely!

WOW!!! Gorgeous!!

LOL - I loved your comment. :)

Beautiful quilt. Your GS is one lucky little fellow.

the pink and blue star, 2nd from the bottom on the left was suppose to have alternating colors. one point had 2 of the same colors together. i pointed that out to him, and told him ,'good enough is okay sometimes. you can't obsess over getting everything perfect. of course we all want to do the best we can, but perfect sometimes is just too much trouble." " yes 100% right is wonderful, and you can aim towards that, but to make yourself really, really anxi's over perfection is not good"
that was just one of several mistakes, but i fixed most of them, or they weren't noticiable, unless pointed out.

OMG!!! That is one spectacular looking quilt!!!
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just wanted to show all you fab. quilters, that i do quilt also. have been enjoying all your pictures for several, several months, but didn't know how to share any of mine. thx so much to this site. i really enjoy seeing everyone's work. also.

Very pretty quilt and yes mistakes are okay, not much would get done otherwise

Mistakes? What mistakes? You just made a new unique pattern.

You did a wonderful job!

Lovely-gorgeous-Wow!

I still have to think how to post pictures and then I probably won't have good batteries for my camera so I don't post much but this is very nice

that is beautiful, I love the star quilts, and when I learn to quilt I want to try and make those. thank you so much. Penny p.s. I just learned to post a picture to. I am not computer smart. :?

Oh my!!!!!!! How beautiful!!!!!!!

WOW!!!!! That is beautiful.

very, very nice. i love it!

Very pretty. :thumbup:

If a quilt teaches me something new, I count it as a success. So far, every quilt has taught me something.

"LOL you really can't do two or 3 things at the same time, like us women always try to do. you know."

I love this comment! I'm not sure I entirely agree, though. I think most women CAN to two or three things at once (because we have superior brains). It always amazes me that my husband does not seem to be able to do this. I will grant you, though, that in the sewing room it's probably best to try to narrow your focus a bit--for instance, I can listen to music while I quilt, or even watch TV. But it all falls apart if somebody comes in and tries to talk to me while I'm sewing!

That is a beautiful quilt. I can tell that a lot of work went into it.

Mistakes certainly are ok. I was teaching someone how to quilt, who then had a perfectionist aunt step in and have her redo all the quilt blocks. It was just a rail fence block and it was her first (and probably ONLY) quilt. I was going to show her how to just sort of work with them.

There are times to be a perfectionist, and other times it just needs to be set aside.

By the way... the quilt is gorgeous!!! :D

Wow, that's an awesome quilt.

wow that's a beauty! I love the blocks connecting all the stars

Is there suppose to be a mistake? I don't see it. Lovely!!

Yes, i believe that when you are learning to sew or quilt, that the aim should be "to just get the project done". fix the mistakes that are real noticable, but make it wearable, or useable and just enjoy the fact that you learned and got it done. and can be proud of it. not everyone can 'just get it done' or have the guts to get that far.

We had gone to visit the daughter, and i had taken a couple star quilt blocks to work on while we were traveling. (of course my sewing machine had to go also) the little grandson had a melt down 1 time because he had spent an hr doing his homework, and come to find out it was all completely wrong. so with an engineer for a mom and a "tool and die" skilled tradesman for a dad, he is more than a perfectionist. and of course granny just could not bear it because the GS was so upset about having done his homework all wrong. that was when I " shared" with him all the mistakes i had made on this quilt as i was making it. and showed him that it all 'came out in the wash'. and so it went to him when i finished it. He just loves it, it is one of several he has of my quilts. and he remembers the 'story' about 'good enough'--- often.

I think it's a brilliant way to teach the "it's OK" concept. I had to look for your "mistakes", but found one finally. Beautiful quilt, and I hope it has the desired effect on an 8 year old perfectionist! I've got a dgs who is starting to be a perfectionist at 4!! EEK!!

Thank you for sharing your beautiful quilt. I'm happy you can post your pics now.