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So today, I opened up my iGoogle page, which I love, and I looked at my list of blogs I check daily to see if there were any new posts, and I was very excited to fin that one of my favorite blogs had a new post. Today, the post was about imperfectness and why it is important; a problem that I have long faced.

As I am sure that readers who know me have noticed, I love to make gifts for people. And, I love to create things that I have seen somewhere else or in my brain and recreate them. However, one of the first things that I will do when I give you anything is show you where the imperfections are. I also rarely keep anything I make for myself, and I am beginning to more clearly understand why.

For about four years, I have been planning on making a quilt of my husband’s and my old t-shirts. All the shirts that hold sentimental feelings, but we not longer wear them. This was originally because I knew that as a military family we weren’t going to be able to keep collecting, but there were a few things that I knew that we wouldn’t be able to let go. So, I thought this was a wonderful idea.

So, I have been taking baby steps on this quilt for some time. The first major step was cutting the shirts up. Then, I went back in and trimmed all the pieces. I looked around online to see if I could find any really cool examples, but all the ones I found were so carefully planned and executed that I knew that it wasn’t the right way for our quilt to come together.

So, I found a backing that I love, and I got the batting that I think that I am going to use. But, since I did all that, nothing has gotten done. I am completely stuck. I don’t know if I should carefully try to lay everything out, or if I should just wing it. Honestly, the worst thing that will happen is that we end up with two quilts if I run out of space on the one.

However, after reading the blog entry for today, I have been thinking a lot about all the projects that I end up working on. Most of them are perfectly laid out in my brain, but I have some trouble with the execution. The blocks don’t line up, or the painting isn’t just quite right. And, I have trouble seeing past the imperfection, which is largely why I think that I don’t keep the things that I make for myself.

So, I have decided that I am going to be try to let myself be more imperfect now. Instead of it being something that I hide from, I think that it is going to be something the I embrace. I am human; I make mistakes. Thank god! I personally don’t really like perfect people, so I am not sure why I want to be one. However cliche is sounds though, there is one thing that I can do perfectly…I can just be the person that I am in the best way I know how.

So, if you get an imperfect something special from me, I hope that you love it (which is the whole point, right)!