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.....