Progress Update - Colorwash 360

When this photo was taken,

I had webbed roughly half of my 

color wash quilt top.

IF ONLY I had noticed it at this point . . . 

After somewhere between 5 and 6 hours of work,

I had the top completely sewn together

and pressed so it was ready for basting.

But where did that elongated yellow line come from?!

I pulled out my photo (top) of the squares 

when they were still pinned on the design wall

and compared it to the photo (bottom)

 of the finished top and THERE it was . . .

one extra square in the wrong place.

Time to walk away, fix dinner,

and get over my not-so-happy reaction.

This very cool book sits on my studio shelf -

it will be for Little Man's 3rd birthday next fall

but I'm enjoying it in the meantime.

In most of my quilts, I can make an "oops" work

without having to do major reconstructive work.

But in this particular top, that was NOT an option.

And so I sat and surgically un-stitched both sides of

 the column in order to remove the offending square.

THIS was the problem.

(clearly I had been auditioning squares

and this one had somehow stayed stuck

to the back side of the real square -

a definite "oops" that Wanda

had repeatedly warned us about)

I shifted the removed column up a row

and carefully re-stitched each of the 26 vertical seams.

Near the bottom I added in another orange square -

which is the way things were supposed to have been.

Each of the fifteen horizontal seams were then pinned

(because the seam allowances all had to reverse

from where they had been previously pressed)

and sewn one at a time across the width of three squares.

Two-plus hours later,

the top was really and truly finished.

(double click to supersize)

Now the batting has been fluffed in the dryer,

the backing (above) has been pressed,

and the binding strips have been cut.

 (that's the binding fabric peeking out 

from under the backing above)

Next steps will be to get this basted and quilted.

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And as I was un-stitching last night,

the quilt's name made itself known --

MARATHON

(inspired I'm sure by the fact that the

St. Jude Memphis Marathon was held this weekend)

Quiltdivajulie

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"If I have accomplished anything good, then it's mainly because I've been driven by the need to know whether I can accomplish things I'm not sure I have the capacity for."
Vaclav Havel