Are rules made to be broken or

[Flummery]

I like to know why it is a rule before I decide what to do about it. It applies to gardening and quilting, my other hobby. Know why it is recommended that you do it this way, THEN you can decide if there's lee-way to change if you wish. I rarely change a cake recipe for example, or I'll unbalance the proportion of melting ingredients with the others. But with other things I don't even 'do' recipes any more. I do my own thing. (But I know why certain ingredients are added and the best time to add them etc.)

Slavishly following rules ties you. Understanding their purpose and then doing what you want to do, liberates you.

[Snadger]

I like to know why it is a rule before I decide what to do about it. It applies to gardening and quilting, my other hobby. Know why it is recommended that you do it this way, THEN you can decide if there's lee-way to change if you wish. I rarely change a cake recipe for example, or I'll unbalance the proportion of melting ingredients with the others. But with other things I don't even 'do' recipes any more. I do my own thing. (But I know why certain ingredients are added and the best time to add them etc.)

Slavishly following rules ties you. Understanding their purpose and then doing what you want to do, liberates you.

I was watching a program where they were either quilting or carpet making and PURPOSELY made a small mistake in the pattern.
They believed that only God was perfect!

Do you put a small fault in your quilts purposefully flum?

[Florence Fennel]

That's my excuse for a dropped stitch.

[Brengirl]

That's my excuse for a dropped stitch.

Intentional of course! Thereby making it unique. Happens to me all the time.

[Florence Fennel]

Great minds Bren!

[Flummery]

I was watching a program where they were either quilting or carpet making and PURPOSELY made a small mistake in the pattern.
They believed that only God was perfect!

Do you put a small fault in your quilts purposefully flum?

Well, of course! (It's Eastern carpet makers - like Omar Khayyam)

[Nicos]

Depends on who set the rule- and why!!!

( apart from rules set down by gun slinging police gendarmes)...(chicken......)

[bubblewrap]

Well, of course! (It's Eastern carpet makers - like Omar Khayyam)

I hope the "fault" is not in the engines you don't want your carpet to crash on take off.

[Brengirl]

Straight lines are boring. Quite often if the picture is a bit abstract I hang it skew whiff. I am not obsessed with correctness.

[zebedee]

I am, I'm afraid to say, somewhat of a rebel. The minute someone says to me 'you will do this or that...' my first response, at least silently is 'Oh, am I very well!'

[Flummery]

I am, I'm afraid to say, somewhat of a rebel. The minute someone says to me 'you will do this or that...' my first response, at least silently is 'Oh, am I very well!'

Mine would be "Why?"

[Hilary B]

I was watching a program where they were either quilting or carpet making and PURPOSELY made a small mistake in the pattern.
They believed that only God was perfect!

Do you put a small fault in your quilts purposefully flum?

This business of putting in a deliberate error because only God can make anything perfect, it seems to me they miss the point. If only God can make anything perfect, there WILL BE some small defect anyway, deliberate or otherwise, so why do it on purpose?

[Flummery]

So as not to appear to be putting yourself above God, or seeming to be better.

[Brengirl]

As someone who usually asks advice on the best way to attempt something I am amazed at the differing points of view. If I can see another approach I will give it a go. I do not mind failure given time to try again and again and again.

[Hilary B]

So as not to appear to be putting yourself above God, or seeming to be better.

The key word there is 'appear'. From my seat (not having grown up with this tradition) it seems that by imagining that you MIGHT do something perfect, if you didn't deliberately include an error, 'putting yourself above God' (or equal at any rate) is EXACTLY what you are doing. The 'appear' bit is for the humans around you.
Just a different perspective on the point, and one which I've been longing to find an excuse to share with someone for the past several days of 'Turkish' carpets in every house we inspect!