New feature! Friday Flaws is designed to be a space where I point out irregularities in my projects as an act of — I was going to say “love,” but that comes off as way too dippy — respect for my imperfections and impatience?
The first flaw I’m highlighting comes from a baby quilt I’ve worked on this week. I have one set of blocks that don’t quite line up, and I’ve decided to live with it. It’s a quilt for a baby. Just as an infant is incapable of judging its parents for not owning a 60″ flat screen, so (goes the logic, that) this particular infant cannot judge Anonymous Quilt Maker (me) for her inability to line up blocks.
I suppose I could rip out the blocks and repress and resew and re-rip and re-repress and re-resew until I had perfect alignment, but that does not fall within the D’oh!Mestic experience. We’re not aiming for groundbreaking design or craftsmanship which would leave Martha breathless. We’re (and of course, by we, I mean me) aiming for handmade objects which could survive at least three rounds in the washing machine, maybe, if the machine was set to delicate. And also, flaws.
We like our flaws and we embrace them.
