I was in the middle of my over-confident intermediate quilter years. Finished top, all HSTs. Picked out the perfect backing from my stash. Layered and plunged into my first try at spray basting, quilted nearly all of the quilt with my best attempt at meandering. Not bad, acceptable. Then I turned the quilt over. Yikes! The back was all covered with tucks. WAAAY to many to ignore. I wept internally, grabbed my Clover seam ripper and picked out ALL of the quilting for days and days. Pressed the top and back, re-layered with spray baste, double checked that the back was a smooth as the front. Lesson learned. Went back to practice my meandering and it was nearly perfect, I found one tuck near the edge and picked out just a tiny little bid of my work, restitched, buried the tails, added binding and Ta-Da, finished. I would say this is my most loved snuggle quilt. Guess that is because I spent so much time with it, pick, pick, picking.
I just looked at the label on this quilt and I named it "Patience". Tee-Hee-Hee