Expert or dilettante?
Are you an expert at anything? I remember my son, who was pretty good at lots of things, saying when he was a teenager that he would give up being a good allrounder if he could be really astonishingly good at one thing, preferably rugby. What do you think? Is it better to be generally ok at lots of things or a real expert at just one thing? I've been musing about this partly as a result of starting a new project, a machine-made quilt. I will blog about this properly when I have got a bit further with it if it doesn't prove to be a disaster! If it turns out well it will be a quilt for the double bedroom in the holiday cottage. Here is a taster of the materials and how they are coming together. Here is the material as it begins to pile up in its squares. And here it is making up the nine block pattern which is the structure of the quilt. The pattern is I think called Shoofly and makes 12" square blocks. I really hope I can make something whi...