I'm not criticizing my quilting skills anymore!
#131
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Illinois
Posts: 18
I think we all do that,I am an intermediate self taught quilter.I see quilts by the gals of my guild that I only dream of being able to do,but at a show in a different town I saw a quilt by a guild member that had six blocks put together wrong.So now I just laught at my mistakes.
#132
I too have always been my own worst critic on my quilting and sewing. That is until I went to a quilt show recently. Made me feel a lot better about mine and now I'm not ashamed to say yes, I made that and quilted it!
#133
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: northern California
Posts: 1,098
Think of Gee's Bend, and another quilt show (at the San Francisco Folk Art Museum... I think it was) called 4 generations of quilting. Both shows featured Black quilters and both (often) sewed in their laps! When I walked into those shows I was astounded with the movement within the quilts. They weren't static.... they MOVED! In a video interview the grandmother (of the 4 generations) was asked, "But how can you just pick up pieces and add them to the quilt? What if you make a mistake?" That grandmother threw back her head and roared with laughter. "I make quilts with love and you can't make a mistake with love!!!!"
I've never worried about little oddities since (well, almost). But there is something graceful about handwork that allows "a little movement" within the piece. Anyway, my husband lowers his brows at me when I lament an "error". :lol: Sierra
I've never worried about little oddities since (well, almost). But there is something graceful about handwork that allows "a little movement" within the piece. Anyway, my husband lowers his brows at me when I lament an "error". :lol: Sierra
#134
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 284
Originally Posted by Tootsie
Originally Posted by cmworrall
my resolution this year is to just do my best and have fun with my quilting and not beat myself up anymore! :)
1. Done is better than perfect
2. If I'm traveling past my project at 5 mph and it looks good, it is perfect
3. If I make a "mistake", I can cover it up, cut it out or call it a design element.
Now I'm not saying I'll do sloppy work just to get something done, nor am I'm saying I don't try to perfect my skills, but I am going to focus on the pleasure and fun that I find in sewing and quilting!
#135
Ditto for me as well. I wa always so hard on myself. The first and only quilt class I took taught me that striving to achieve perfections takes the joy out of the project. I sure don't need any more stress in my life, that is the reason I started quilting, to enjoy my life.
Great goal for each of us this year. Happy quilting and have loads of enjoyable hours with your projects.
Great goal for each of us this year. Happy quilting and have loads of enjoyable hours with your projects.
#136
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Posts: 38
I am so glad to know there are people that get stressed out, besides me..I joined a group of ladies for the Quilts of Valor. Each month we make a quilt going somewhere in the World, to a wounded solider. We also make a pillow case to go with it. My job mostly is the pillow case with a French seam. So i want it perfect. So I get so stressed out over it. So I promised my self this year not to get so upset, if its not perfect.
#137
I've noticed pictures in magazines and actual quilts at specialty and Amish stores and was so surpirised! My quilting doesn't look so bad. It gives you a boost to realize that you are good at what you do.
#138
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Northern Virginia
Posts: 506
You know, I often wondered if the quilt magazine editors look for mistakes to photograph to put the beginners at ease and make us more likely to continue quilting and therefore spending money in the quiltworld?
#139
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: California
Posts: 3,502
Before I ever made my first quilt I was at my county fair and saw the quilts. I had sewn clothes for years but never a quilt. When I saw those quilts I was a little shocked at how some of them looked, I guess I assumed they would be perfect, and that prompted me to make a quilt.
I did, all hand pieced and hand quilted, and entered it the next year in the Quilter's First Quilt category. I won first place. That quilt hangs in my sewing room with the ribbon on it.
It's very far from perfect too!
I did, all hand pieced and hand quilted, and entered it the next year in the Quilter's First Quilt category. I won first place. That quilt hangs in my sewing room with the ribbon on it.
It's very far from perfect too!
#140
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: northern California
Posts: 1,098
Originally Posted by scraphq
My Mother, also a quiltmaker, always said the imperfections where there in case she would ever have to identify one of her quilts!
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