What is your PQ? (or my mother the quilter)

For Mother's Day, I bought my mother a book. My mother is a very interesting person... if by "interesting" you mean "anal retentive perfectionist without a creative bone in her body". This same woman has decided to take up Quilting. Seriously... my mother is now a quilter. The woman who won't make pie pastry because it takes too long is going to start making quilts. You see the humour, right?

Anyway, I found her a book called "that dorky homemade look" which is all about making the kind of quilts that cats have kittens on, instead of making the quilts that live in museums and are never touched. One of the sections in the book (which I have just finished reading because I actually enjoy the dorky homemade look and we always pre-read the books we send one another) is about determining your "PQ" or "Perfection Quotient"

What does that mean? Well.. how hell-bent on perfection are you? When sewing, how often do you rip a seam that is off by less than a quarter inch? When knitting, what happens if you accidentily drop a stich? Or when crocheting, how likely are you to rip a round or row out if it is "wrong"? Basically, how often do you say "Oh well... no one will notice" and keep going?

I figure I am around a 7... but it depends on the project and the person it is for. Kniting a scarf for my husband? I am a 4. Crocheting a ponch for my sister? I am a 9.

What about all you crafty ladies? What is your PQ? And does your mother make pie pastry?

 

I don't care, really. I'm far from perfect, and I do all of my sewing by hand so it's never perfectly straight. When I'm making jewelry, I'm a bit more anal retentive. If I mess up, I'll go back and fix it, but I usually notice that I've messed up pretty soon after. Sooo... Uh... 3?

And no, my mother doesn't make... anything. She's too lazy to run the vacuum because it "takes too long." Yeeeeah...