Ornament Exchange

I received my ornament exchange in the mail yesterday.  I love what my partner chose.  It looks like a PS ornament to me, and I think I've seen it before, but I haven't time to go through my old JCS Christmas ornament magazines to find it. 

 

Here's a close-up:

 

 

In her note, Patti said she had a hard time with the finishing, but I think it looks great.  I do know how she feels, though, trying to make gifts perfect.

 

 I have the same feeling when my points in my quilts don't match or my machine binding is off a little when I'm making a quilt for someone.  I want so much for the things I make to be perfect when I give them away, but they never are.  I've heard that it take 10,000 hours to become an expert at something, so I try to be content knowing that after I have 10, 000 hours experience in quilt binding, I can expect perfection in my binding.  (Just shoot me now!) If I quit binding quilts by machine because I can't do it perfectly, I will never get any better at machine binding.

 

I do have a dirty little secret about my ornament finishing:  I use glue, and I use tape.   The ornaments I make are not heirlooms.  They won't last for hundreds of years, and I'm ok with that.