That is what I'm learning now, to give up on perfection, because I know that I can never reach it. I get frustrated because all of the quilts in the books that I look at look so "perfect." But I'm trying to teach myself that nothing is perfect. Granted, I do pull out threads when something looks off and not quite right. But I'm telling myself to do the best I can, and that is all I can do. Otherwise I would give up quilting. And I love to quilt.