Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
I just finished a quilt top for my new great grandson that has one block upside down. A glaring mistake. I was thinking about fixing it but my grand daughter laughed and said "leave it Gramma, it's so you!" So I did.
Cari
I did the same thing with a quilt for one of my grandsons - after I had most of the rows sewn together and up on the design wall I noticed that one block was upside down. I was going to change it, but then remembered what I read about Amish quilts - nobody but God is perfect so they always leave an "imperfection" in their quilts. So the upside down block stayed that way, but unless I pointed it out or you were looking for it, you would never know.
However, even if it would have been obvious, I still would have left it.
Now having said that, I made a quilt for one of my cousins and I really wanted it to be *right*. After I had almost the entire thing done I realized that 1) I wasn't at all happy with my fabric choices, and 2) I had sewn two blocks in with the fabric wrong side up (I was really tired when I did that.
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Fixing it would have been a real pain, so I went and bought more fabric and re-made the entire quilt. The quilt turned out beautiful and I was much happier with it. I do have to say though, that there were several blocks where the points didn't match up perfectly and I just let them stay that way. Once the quilt was completely finished and quilted, you couldn't see those without looking very close and I doubt that a non-quilter would ever even see them.