Live and learn. But the quilt will be fine. Monkey seems to love it. I know we will be too when you send a picture of the finished quilt. I made three t-shirt tops before I learned about stabilizing the shirts before cutting. The first two that I made were hand quilted combined with tying. It's still in use almost daily for sixteen years. The second one was quilted by machine stitching in the ditch on the sashings and hand stitched around the logos. The last one is still a top and UFO. It will be tied. The last one I did was stabilized and sent out to a LA for quilting.