I'm just going batty with the need to do things perfectly and constantly failing at it!

Why am I this anal if I can't get it right?? As soon as I think I've perfected one aspect of a diaper I find something else that needs tweaking and it just goes on and on and on. I end up putting down projects because I need rest from them!

Currently I'm perfecting training pants. Yesterday I figured out the perfect way to close them (and it worked), today I figured out that if I dip the front (think newborn cord cutout type dip) and dip the back (for my small bummed child) and use knit binding with elastic encased then it will look finished and fit great. But the front needed a further dip, the soaker needed further contouring (even though it's a good inch less wide than the average soaker) and the closure caught on the wool cover a bit.

But it's a great pull on/velcro off training pant that isn't like the average side closing diaper and in that respect doesn't start coming undone when you pull up or down. And the front and back dips are really nice. But it's not perfect...

AND IT'S DRIVING ME NUTS!

How do you guys deal with this? This isn't the first project that has beaten me down! I do too much sewing to be bothered this often by imperfection, I need some coping strategies!! :innocent

'K you have too much time on your hands. :LOL I'm lucky if I FINISH a project - to me that is success. If it fits, even better. If it works, fabulous! If it's better than something I've bought, I'm over the moon.

I have great admiration for you. Perhaps you could send your rejects my way? And I'll send you a thousand unfinished projects?? As I speak, the tower of fabric looms over my head, threatening to crush me if it falls over...

I have the same problem. I make a diaper and it seems perfect, but maybe take a half inch off the stride. Or the tabs need to be a smidge longer. Maybe dip a little in the front. And so on and so on. We need a support group :LOL

Hon, you're not trying to be a perfect seamstress, you've just become a patternmaker :D That's what making a perfect pattern is about, taking a little more off here, make that part longer, etc. And then just when you've got it to work on your kid, you find you have to change something for your next kid! It's the reason us patternmakers are so sensitive about having our patterns copied; it takes a LOT of work and many prototypes to get it just right. It's also the reason most patternmakers kids wear wonky stuff, they get all the rejects, lol!