#i hate having to work to accept my handmade shit isn't perfect and it's so annoying that i can't just be one and done with it

[madegeeky]

I think one of the most difficult and time consuming parts of most any craft is something that no one talks about:

Teaching yourself how to accept imperfections.

And I want to stress the word "teach" here. Because for some of us, maybe even most of us, that isn't something that we'll just accidentally find ourselves doing.

So you have to teach yourself to accept it. You have to force yourself to look at your imperfect handmade item and accept that it will never be perfect and let yourself enjoy it anyway.

It feels silly but you have to put forth an active effort to do this. And it's not a one-and-done situation either! Not only do you have to continously work on it but it doesn't always transfer between crafting types. So if you do more than one type of crafting, it means you might have to work twice as hard. Which is stupid! I know! But it's also just something you have to accept.

Will you still undo some things so you can do them over again? Sure. Sometimes things look too wonky to stay the way they are or sometimes it'll only take 2 minutes to undo so it seems silly to not fix it. But there are a lot of things you have to teach yourself to just let go of.

I've been doing embroidery for 20ish years and it's take me 17 of those to learn to accept the imperfections that happen in my embroidery.

It's hard, I know. And it takes an obnoxiously long time for some of us. But it's worth it, it really is.

Your work is handmade. It is imperfect. And that is perfectly alright.