Thursday, January 30, 2025

A Comedy of Errors

 

I had just finished sewing the binding on the front of the February quilt when I flipped it over to find this. A  pucker.  A big ugly pucker. I thought I had been checking after each machine quilting session but it seems I wasn't looking too closely on one particular day. 



I went to some online quilting forums to see if someone had come up with a hack for ridding yourself of the dreaded pucker after the fact but alas, the consensus was as I feared. Rip it out. I had to rip off a good chunk of that binding first. I spent that evening taking out all of the machine quilted stitches in that corner. One painful stitch at a time. Thank goodness it was just a corner. It could have been worse. 




Then, after machine quilting that corner for the second time, I realized that I had QUILTED THAT LOOSE BINDING TO THE BACK OF THE QUILT. At this point I just had to laugh while I went for the seam ripper once again. 



I am happy to say that by yesterday afternoon, I had made peace with the February quilt.  Pup and I settled in front of a Rom Com and got the first side of that binding sewn down. If there are no more disasters ahead, I should have this finished in time. Whew.....






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6 comments:

  1. BetsyJanuary 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM

    Isn't that just the way things happen? In 2023 I was making the kids Christmas ornaments and I sewed the ribbon for the hanger on wrong SIX times before I got it right. You better believe I didn't do it on the other ornaments and this year I got them right the first time. Because I double checked each one.
    I do love that quilt though. So perfect for February.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  2. VeraJanuary 30, 2025 at 8:15 AM

    I give you credit for laughing...at that point I would have been screaming. Such a pretty quilt for February!

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  3. BonnyJanuary 30, 2025 at 9:55 AM

    Oh, my! That sounds like something I might do (if I quilted). I'm glad you could laugh about it, fix it successfully, and are now finishing the binding. Well done!

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  4. WanderingcatstudioJanuary 30, 2025 at 9:58 AM

    If it's a quilt for me, I would leave the pucker in. For the shop... well it's ripping time
    Sewing the binding to the back though... yeah... there's no good cure for that one! Lol
    I'm glad you were able to get back on track!

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  5. KSDJanuary 30, 2025 at 12:05 PM

    Not a pucker! 😉 We crafters are such perfectionists, aren't we?

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  6. Kim in OregonJanuary 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM

    It's so beautiful!

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