People get so hung up on a making a project perfect. It is so much more fun to have a dialogue with your project, sometimes it speaks to you while you are asleep, or at the art museum and you have an "ah ha!" moment and can move on to the next step. The hardest part of this quilt was figuring out how to teach someone who can't draw, how to make realistic animal designs with felted appliques. That eureka moment came when I learned how to make stencils from my patterns. I sent the Wannabees (above) to a quilt show in Oregon this summer and the comment that came back from the judges, was that I should be more careful at the beginning and endings of my quilting stitches. (I have no idea what they are talking about!) It didn't matter to them that I was quilting a large 6 lb. quilt on my HOME SEWING MACHINE and that the quilting was not the outstanding feature of the quilt. They didn't seem to notice that I was doing something that nobody else...