seeing mistakes in quilts

My eye might go to the mistake....but the person I give it to only sees the colors and beauty and are thrilled to receive a handmade quilt. I no longer point out my mistakes for the same reason as Sue.

I don't make mistakes, I just create a new design!

I agree with not mentioning 'your new design' to anyone else, especially another quilter! I spent hours and hours on a quilt that has blocks on point and one of them was turned sideways. Until another quilter friend pointed out that I should fix it, I didn't even know that it wasn't turned the correct way. I'm not fixing it because it does look just fine the way it is. Besides, if I would fix it, that takes away time from another project begging me to make.

Hugs,

Mine will always have mistakes-especially in the quilting part,since I do all my own-cannot afford to send them out to be done on those fancy,computerized long arm machines. I have just accepted the fact that with time and more experience-perhaps the mistakes will be less-LOL!

I can only echo what each and every other quilter here has said! I love the one who said that each mistake is a place to tuck some love in!

Knowing full well that I am less than perfect I have decided that the "imperfections" that occur in my quilts are gifts for other to find. They are little bits of care and concern that I add to the quilts...at least I have convinced myself, sorta...

Thanks for all the laughs today. This thread is hilarious. We all make mistakes but DO not ever point them out to other people. Bad idea. I am my own worse critic. All the wall-hangings I have done and can not have a one of them hanging in my house. I keep looking at them---thinking why in the world did I put that piece there or I should have done that part different. I am crazy enough without all that added stress. LOL. Yep, if we wanted perfect it would be store bought. Even then those are not perfect.

My suggestion: Please, don't be so hard on yourself. Enjoy the fact you accomplished it and learned so much from each process. Just enjoy quilting!!!!!

It is too bad I didn't save the first quilt I ever finished. LOL. But then again, probably a good thing as I am sure I would have never made another one.

Be Happy and Enjoy Quilting.

They are not mistakes....you are making it original! At the first class I took, the teacher said the Amish always make one goof on purpose, so I call it making it Amish! Unless it is drastic, I don't fix them!

Sorry, but I don't think we ever stop focusing on our mistakes..... The truth s that once a quilt has been washed and dried, most mistakes simply disappear.... Isn't that nice?

I think the hardest thing to do is to NOT point out the mismatched seams, or the missing points.... Non quilters...and that's who we usually quilt for....haven't got a clue.... They just see a beautiful quilt, and are amazed that you made it for them... You'll see....

I never fix my mistakes on quilts. I am not perfect, and I know my quilts will never be perfect. But I look upon making a quilt sort of like God's love for us and our creation. God created us in LOVE, and we are not perfect, but we are perfect the way God created us and we each are a Beautiful Creation.

Each quilt project you do is a creation of LOVE , and is gifted in Love, and perfectly created for the recipient. Each quilt created is a beautiful creation. Most recipients will love the quilt and never notice anything you see as a mistake.
Don't be sew hard on yourself, and just relax and enjoy sewing and quilting.

If you look at it after it is washed, without your glasses on, from three feet away it is really hard to find those mistakes.