Mistakes

Hint: If you're not a quilter, you may NOT want to read this post. It will put you to sleep, for sure.

It's been a week since last posting. That is not to say I have been sitting idle the past week. After finishing the series wall hanging, I pulled out the panel I purchased at Carly's a couple weeks ago. It is a Stonehenge panel and I purchased backing to go with it to make a table runner. Easy, peasy....no piecing no matching points, no matching seams.....

I'm afraid to say it was one of those 'off' weeks for me. When I laid out the fabric to pin baste them together, the backing was too short for the table runner top. Blah :-( So I started cutting up the backing piece and kept mis-cutting it. (Oh, take me back to art quilts where I don't have to plan out this stuff!) I think I had to cut and re-sew it four times. So much for buying a backing fabric. Unfortunately, that was NOT the end of it. After I quilted it and put the binding on it, I thought I would put it on one of the tables where I planned to use it. Grrrrrrr! It was was too big. I thought I might get away with using it somewhere else, but nooooooo, it was too big for all of those places, too! So I took the binding off, cut the piece down to size and put the binding back on. Whew! I'm in process of hand-sewing the binding to the back and when that is done I'll take a pic and post here.

And....
That was NOT the end of it. I decided to put a border on my fractured lily piece and that went fine. Measured twice, and cut once...perfect. It was that blasted backing where I ran into trouble again. I pin-basted the heck out of it and put it in the sewing machine and machine basted around the edge as I always do before quilting a quilt. Check the back and yup, I messed up...again waaaaaaaaaa! So I had to undo, piece a corner where I was short and re-do before I could begin any machine quilting. I will probably cover that corner with the label.

If you've stayed with me and read this far, kudos to you. It is probably something you have experienced, too. The nice thing about this whole experience is that I now know enough how to fix my mistakes and that these two pieces are not going to sit on a shelf somewhere and never be finished. I'm happy I have been able to salvage both of them into finished pieces.