{"id":6054,"date":"2013-05-23T07:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2013-05-23T07:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:02:02","slug":"a-rant-about-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2013\/05\/23\/a-rant-about-quality\/","title":{"rendered":"a rant about quality"},"content":{"rendered":"

While looking down my Facebook feed this morning, I found a link to this article on The Dumbing Down of the Quilting and Sewing Industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oh, yes, I do so agree.<\/p>\n

I know that mistakes slip through in my books and patterns sometimes, but it is my strongest desire that they do not! One of the hardest things in kissing a book goodbye and sending it off to the printers is that you KNOW you will have missed something, and it will go into print and be there to embarrass you forever more! (If you find a mistake in one of my publications, PLEASE let me know, because it can be corrected in a future printing.)<\/p>\n

The standard of finishing is dropping dramatically, mostly because people just don’t have the skills or the inclination to do things properly anymore. I think this is partly brought about by living in a society where we just don’t tolerate things that take time. It needs to be quick, and if it is not quick enough, sometimes people cut corners to make it quick.<\/p>\n

But no, there is so much satisfaction in learning to do something well. I personally get so much enjoyment from taking the time to do things properly. If I do want\/need to rush, invariably I will make mistakes. Being the sort of person that I am, I can’t live with leaving things that are of a lower standard than I want them to be. And then mistakes will just need to be fixed, which usually takes more time and effort than doing it right the first time.<\/p>\n

In terms of design, I really really push myself to come up with the best I can. When I design an embroidery, I never go with the first version. It can always be improved and if it is a moment of sheer inspiration, even a great first design can always be tweaked! This is something I try to teach my daughters for their school work. First draft is never the final draft!<\/p>\n

Embroidery takes time. Especially the sort of embroidery that I enjoy and have in my books. So probably you, my lovely readers, are in the same choir that I am. We don’t mind if a beautiful project takes effort and time, because we actually enjoy that. I do hope though, that as time goes on, society’s need for quick doesn’t mean that no-one else joins our choir.<\/p>\n

This post is a little half-baked as I really haven’t had the time to think it through a lot. However, dropping standards IS something I have noticed.<\/p>\n

I think, for me, it all comes back to the old adage: If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What do you think about this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While looking down my Facebook feed this morning, I found a link to this article on The Dumbing Down of the Quilting and Sewing Industry.<\/p>\n

Oh, yes, I do so agree.<\/p>\n

I know that mistakes slip through in my books and patterns sometimes, but it is my strongest desire that they do not! One of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,33,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-embroidery-musings","category-soapbox","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6058,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}