Originally Posted by
lclang
This is not YOUR fault. Take it back, quilting and all, and tell her respectfully that apparently her machine needs to be tweaked so that the tension is right. Use kind words. Maybe she was in a hurry or she feels that since it is a donation quilt it is good enough...she needs to know that it is just as important to do acceptable work on a donation quilt as on any other customer quilt. SHE needs to rip it out and re-quilt it is that is what has to be done. She should have one of those electric "razor" type rippers that will take out the stitches much faster than you can.
Tell me more about the "electric razor" ripper you mentioned. I started picking it out last night and got totally frustrated. Obviously bad quilting is tough to get out as well. Right now I'm of the mindset to just put it away somewhere till I can stand to look at it. At one point yesterday I was ready to cut it up in little pieces.
I could make another one in the time it will take to pick this out and be a whole lot more enjoyable.