As a beginner learning the basics, I am striving for perfection.
I have tried many, many things over the years and was mostly ok at them, but never really, really good at them. So this time, I am striving to be a really good quilter.
I have Harriet Hargrave's books and am learning from them. Far from being daunting, I find them endlessly encouraging. Harriet shows you how it's done and mostly that includes not using lots of short-cuts e.g. cutting out one at a time rather than in stacks and lots of really tedious measuring and checking.
The hardest lesson I am learning is to SLOW DOWN. I really want to race ahead so this lesson is difficult to follow. My new mantra is "It's your hobby - What's your hurry?"