noveltyjunkie

This question gets asked a lot. I havent read all the answers but i bet someone resurrects the urban myth about some culture which deliberately puts in mistakes. No such culture is known to exist!

jlwheart

Please, please if I ever post a pic of my quilt and you see a boo-boo please tell me!

Sandra Craig

I think it would depend on how the person pointing out the mistake presented it. I don't think anyone on this board would be rude about it. I might want to make the same quilt again and would not want to make the same mistake again. , so I guess I would want to know.

riutzelj

i appreciated being told before i quilted it, that the top i posted for quilting suggestions had a square with a reversed piece. i did end up fixing it because it changed the whole picture of the finished quilt. After it was machine quilted, probably wouldn't care though i might not gift it to a perfectionist.

Drue

Well, I'm thinking I would want to know...but in a PM (private message). Don't send it out for everyone to search for.

nativetexan

No, I wouldn't want it pointed out if I hadn't already mentioned a mistake. no one is perfect, so no quilt is required to be perfect either.
notifying in a PM is a great idea. perfect!

M.I.Late

Sure I would want to know. If we can't be honest with each other...

Please don't offend me or laugh at me.
Assure me that I'm normal.
Remind me that none of us are perfect.

But I'm a perfectionist, and always want to do my best even if it means pulling out the entire center. I will quite often show my quilt to the membership here before getting it quilted. I hope that if I've got a block out of place, backwards or just should swap a couple of blocks, that someone will tell me. I don't want to discover it after it's quilted. If it's already quilted - just ask me if I noticed it.... then I can decide what I can or can't do to fix it.

Hugs to all the other imperfect quilters. (You know who you are)

earthwalker

My

My thoughts exactly.

nstitches4u

The Amish always put one little mistake in each quilt because nobody but God is perfect. I agree. None of us is perfect. Most non-quilters would not notice a boo boo if you didn't point it out. I say don't worry about it.

Norma

nstitches4u

I learn so much from this board. I stand corrected. I had always heard that the Amish put a deliberate mistake in each quilt. After reading noveltyjunkie's post, I did some research. This quote is from Machine Quilting in the 19th Century.

"The subject arose in a June 2000 Quilt History List discussion. Quilt historian and AQS appraiser Bobbie Aug, who has taught pre-1940 Old Order Amish-style quiltmaking, said she once spent a week with an Old Order Amish family. The Amish quilters she asked about the "humility block" were aghast. To them "an intentional error is saying just the opposite - that their work is perfect and that they would have to be purposeful in order to make mistakes."*

After 20 years of research among the Amish in Missouri, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Bettina Havig has developed close connections with Amish quiltmakers; she's written two books on the subject. Ask an Amish quilter about the "humility block," she says, "and the answer will be 'I make enough mistakes without making them on purpose'." Havig dismisses the story as "just one more attempt to romanticize an aspect of quiltmaking." She notes that not only has she found no evidence supporting this tradition among the Amish; she hasn't found "any sort of quilt superstition" in that community."

I also make enough mistakes without having to put a deliberate mistake in a quilt. I guess I will have to claim creative license! lol

Norma