Love Patchwork & Quilting

Learn how to fail

I’m thinking about starting a new IG account called @QuiltingFails. The feed would be filled with quilters across the world sharing quilting mistakes (poor colour choice, imperfect points, backward piecing…) and the captions could be the lessons that quilters learned from making those mistakes.

“There are no mistakes, only lessons learned” – Robin Sharma

Here’s what I like about the idea: Firstly, sharing mistakes would be a refreshing change

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