I've finished piecing my quilt top - I hope to assemble it for quilting today.
One item I didn't do well (and it's not in the directions) - is that I should have "trued" my 14" quilt squares. I didn't think to do it - I'm a quilting luddite, apparently. This made some of my seams on the quilt top not quite matching. Once it's quilted I don't think it will be noticeable - except by me.
I realized it on block 7 of 15. I could have opened the quilt up - but I'm a lazy quilter.
In my mind, perfection is the enemy of good. This affects my entire life I think. Perfect people are really irritating. I delay many projects and writing because I am afflicted by this need for perfection. I'm certainly not perfect myself in my personal life. For example, I can't find my keys at least once a day. I'm completely unorganized and messy, generally. Although I pride myself on logic - I am not a linear thinker.
What do you think - is perfection the enemy of good?
4 comments:
I love your quilt so far - love the bright red and blue colors especially! I'm the same with perfection - I get disgusted with my sewing when it's not perfect, but that doesn't stop me from wearing it usually - :)
So true - I am a perfectionist at work, to a fault. But anything other than legal work is decidedly less than perfect! Yes, I've never stopped wearing something because it's not perfect. . . if it's reasonable I wear it - and sometimes less than that!
Yes! That's why I can't be a quilter. Good enough is definitely good enough for me.
Your quilt still looks really great to me.
Katie - Exactly! I just don't have enough patience - or maybe I'm only willing to spend a weekend and I'm ready to be done and back to regularly scheduled programming. I don't even want to think about the binding. . .
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