seeing mistakes in quilts

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Originally Posted by wackyaunt3

An Amish friend told me that if she cannot find a mistake in her quilt she creates one. Granted most of the time I can't find the mistake, unless she shows me where it is, but she definately knows it is there. She was taught to do this as a child as part of her faith.

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If the quilt is perfect, the Devil gets into it. Also common in New England years ago.

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Originally Posted by Jen7

I go with the "galloping horse" theory the forum peeps here taught me: if you can't see it from the saddle of a galloping horse, it doesn't matter!

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Man on horseback, running for his life, will never see a mistake like that. My mother's pet saying.

Art professor - GET YOUR NOSE OUT OF IT. Meaning the closer you looked at the detail, the more you saw wrong instead of the big picture.

Neither saying has soaked in.

Perfection is not part of my dictionary in quilting terms. I don't strive for it so I don't expect it. If something turns out well enough that something I not "glaring" at me, I don't worry about it. If I see one and show DH or DD and they don't see it until I point it out, that is good enough for me.