Do you look at your quilt an see every little thing!
02-23-2010, 06:47 AM
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"Better finished than perfect!" Boy, that just took a lot of pressure off!
I'm finally getting comfortable with free motion quilting, and have a couple of spots that didn't come out as I would have liked...okay, I ran over the corner of a pink square with blue thread, and there is a "kiss" on the backing...but I'm just chocking it up to a learning experience and decided that everytime I look at those "customized" spots on my quilt I'll remember a lesson learned.
I'm finally getting comfortable with free motion quilting, and have a couple of spots that didn't come out as I would have liked...okay, I ran over the corner of a pink square with blue thread, and there is a "kiss" on the backing...but I'm just chocking it up to a learning experience and decided that everytime I look at those "customized" spots on my quilt I'll remember a lesson learned.
02-23-2010, 07:12 AM
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I used to look and see everything; all the imperfections that I now realize noone else sees. My rule is this and the girls in my quiliting group love to quote it: IF A MAN ON A GALLOPING HORSE CAN'T SEE IT, DON'T UNDO IT.
02-23-2010, 07:12 AM
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I used to look and see everything; all the imperfections that I now realize noone else sees. My rule is this and the girls in my quiliting group love to quote it: IF A MAN ON A GALLOPING HORSE CAN'T SEE IT, DON'T UNDO IT.
02-23-2010, 07:22 AM
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No, you're not any crazier than the rest of us!
What amazes me is how I don't see the mistakes when I'm making them, when it would be easier to fix. Guess it's similar to when we're frantically looking for something in the house only to have someone else point out that it's right under your nose. Sometimes another set of eyes are good (finding keys) but other times they're not (spotting quilting mistakes). Happily, most people love the results, no matter how imperfect.
What amazes me is how I don't see the mistakes when I'm making them, when it would be easier to fix. Guess it's similar to when we're frantically looking for something in the house only to have someone else point out that it's right under your nose. Sometimes another set of eyes are good (finding keys) but other times they're not (spotting quilting mistakes). Happily, most people love the results, no matter how imperfect.
02-23-2010, 08:05 AM
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I'm working on getting out of that habit. I used to have a really unhealthy tendency to be an imperfectionist* and I'm working on accepting that my quilt won't be free of every error, if there's a little bit of puckering, I can quilt that out, and no one else knows that it's not how I meant it to be.
*My friend redefined perfectionist to imperfectionist. So someone who sees every little mistake, rather than being a "perfectionist", they're actually an "imperfectionist" since they're focusing on the imperfections. I like that definition and rephrasing :)
*My friend redefined perfectionist to imperfectionist. So someone who sees every little mistake, rather than being a "perfectionist", they're actually an "imperfectionist" since they're focusing on the imperfections. I like that definition and rephrasing :)
02-23-2010, 08:06 AM
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Originally Posted by Candace
I'm really trying to relax my "standards" but it's hard. I've always been a perfectionist and sometimes that course isn't the best one.
I'm cursed with that too. Sometimes its good sometimes its not. :shock: in the quilting world its not. I need to leave it at the door when I go into my sewing room. ;-)
02-23-2010, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Dragonfly Nana
Isn't there a panel some where that says "A mistake is just another way of looking at something"
I love it. I need to get it made and hung in the sewing room.
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