I found the Quilt Police!!
#11
I found the Quilt Police!! They live in my head!! They fuss about my points! My sewing techniques, my choice of design and won't let me sew at all without having the ripper within close reach. Heaven help me if a seam line is slightly off!! Will I ever learn to just enjoy sitting down to sew??
#12
Super Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,563
My husband taught me a trick to solve this. When I get stuck on a quilt and don't know what to do, that night when I go to bed I tell myself to dream about that quilt. Sometimes an answer comes to me in a night or two, sometimes it's a week, sometimes it's during the day. I think our brains come up with more creative solutions while we're asleep. I keep paper and pencil next to my bed to write ideas down.
Telling yourself to dream about something sounds crazy, but it really does work.
Telling yourself to dream about something sounds crazy, but it really does work.
#13
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 24,660
That's not the quilt police...it's your own ambition. Why on earth would you want to stiffle it? Grab ahold with both arms and embrace it, it will take you far. Aim high, as they say! There is absolutely nothing wrong with striving for excellence, or with reaching it. Do you really want to settle for 'good enough' as your goal?
#15
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 673
yup. i think we all suffer from this at one point or another. like "they" say, "the enemy of 'good', is 'better'." sometimes, i just walk away for a few minutes, and when i return, things don't look so awful or bad. amazing what 5 minutes can do for perspective!
#16
That's not the quilt police...it's your own ambition. Why on earth would you want to stiffle it? Grab ahold with both arms and embrace it, it will take you far. Aim high, as they say! There is absolutely nothing wrong with striving for excellence, or with reaching it. Do you really want to settle for 'good enough' as your goal?
Words of wisdom to live by!!! Thank you so much!! I was a little down and out! I feel better!!
#17
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Join Date: May 2012
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,585
Ladies, don't be so hard on yourselves! We can only strive for "excellence", knowing that we've done our very best at the time. Don't beat yourselves up over an imperfect point. None of us will ever be perfect, so let's be satisified with "excellence".
Jeanette Frantz
Jeanette Frantz
#18
I agree....we are not perfect.....so our projects be it quilting, sewing, cooking or cleaning will not be perfect.....so my personal moto is ...."LET GO....AND LET GOD WORRY ABOUT IT"....I do the best I can with the brain cells that I have at the time (some times more .....some times less).....Why oh why worry about the small things......Just do the very best you can, be it with quilting, husbands, a job or children..... JUST THE BEST YOU CAN....and not lose sleep over it
#19
I agree. I rarely do anything perfectly. I can count on both hand the few times I've done a project that I really think came out perfect. If I had to wait until I did it all pefect....I'd probably never begin!
#20
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern California mountains
Posts: 12,538
I have a friend who says regularly, "perfection is highly overrated." I got past that perfectionist point. I know people who have been quilting much longer than I who never have. .....and BTW, I get more way blue ribbons than they do. If you don't allow yourself to fiish, it does not matter how perfect you are.