Are quilters perfect?
07-01-2017, 06:18 AM
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The Moda "Scared of Sewing sometimes" article has many good suggestions to help us understand not to be afraid to try doing the thing that we are most hesitant about.
I figure that I didn't know anything about quilting when I first started. Where would I be if I let that stop me?
I figure that I didn't know anything about quilting when I first started. Where would I be if I let that stop me?
07-01-2017, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by tranum
I have several family vintage (to be an antique, an item should be about 100 years old) quilts, all hand done and I consider them beautiful. None are perfect and none are even square.
07-02-2017, 04:48 AM
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Absolutely not!!!!! The Amish have a tradition in quilt making, they make a deliberate mistake because only God is perfect. I, on the other hand, do not need to try to make a mistake. I subsribe to the idea of "Finished is better than perfect".
07-02-2017, 01:42 PM
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No Way! I approach quilting that each quilt lets me learn something new--whether a new technique, a new "don't do this!", or something else--that's one of the things I really, really like about quilting--it's easy to get variety and creativity--neither which are perfectionism!
I have a friend that is admittedly a perfectionist and when she thinks she may be entering a quilt into competition (which is all except her charity quilts) she will strive for perfection and says she will unsew 3x and after that she recuts the block. Her quilts are wonderful and show that. But I'm not really into show quilting.
P.S. I rue the day that we started to use OCD as a label of perfectionism. Obsessive/Complusive Disorder is not perfectionism--it's when someone has obsessive thoughts (i.e I'm afraid I'll kill my parent in their sleep, or everything I touch is contaminated, etc) that can only be relieved by some compulsive act--like washing hands a set number of times, touching a certain spot on the wall a set number of times, re-tying shoes a set number of times, etc. Sorry I'm being nitpicky--but it's a pet peeve from a mental health professional.
I have a friend that is admittedly a perfectionist and when she thinks she may be entering a quilt into competition (which is all except her charity quilts) she will strive for perfection and says she will unsew 3x and after that she recuts the block. Her quilts are wonderful and show that. But I'm not really into show quilting.
P.S. I rue the day that we started to use OCD as a label of perfectionism. Obsessive/Complusive Disorder is not perfectionism--it's when someone has obsessive thoughts (i.e I'm afraid I'll kill my parent in their sleep, or everything I touch is contaminated, etc) that can only be relieved by some compulsive act--like washing hands a set number of times, touching a certain spot on the wall a set number of times, re-tying shoes a set number of times, etc. Sorry I'm being nitpicky--but it's a pet peeve from a mental health professional.
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