When I first started I was so bad that I didn't even suck. Then I took some classes and finally made it to "suck" stage. Haven't progressed much past that but I am getting better with every project. My problem is that my trial pieces look pretty good and then when I work on a real quilt it goes downhill. Mostly I make smaller community service quilts to practice on. I bet the kids don't care if the meander isn't spot-on.