I just did that on an applique project I'm working on. Luckily, it was a flower with several different blue petals. This came up once, and the advice I was given was "You paid for both sides of the fabric. You might as well use both."

And it does work in your quilt.

I did this once in a quilt in which I surrounded squares of color with white on white fabric....that in fact looks very like yours, except mine was pure white. I realized half way through that some of it was right side up, some not. I didn't rip out a single seam! I considered it a "learning" mistake and today it doesn't bother me at all, even though I have mild OCD.

Only you know whether or not it will haunt you. If not, I'd say leave it alone. If you can't live with it, then rip it out and recut those pieces. By the way, I have some of that swirls on burgundy fabric, too! I think it's a fat quarter. We must shop in the same chain.

The first quilt I made I picked out a directional white on white fabric. Drove me crazy... instructor said no one would ever notice. I know there are 3 pieces that are printed on the wrong side in the quilt... and I can't identify a single one. Go with it unless you hang around with really bitchy quilt police.

Leave it. I have purposely used the "wrong side" to mute down a too bright fabric in a scrappy block. Enjoy the process!

I often use the reverse side of fabrics to give a different tone to my quilts. I would leave it. No-one will ever know, especially if you use the reverse side of the same fabric in some more of your blocks.

Since you are working with different light backgrounds, I would not worry about it and just leave it. It may stick out to you, but I promise you nobody else will notice; unless you point it out, so don't worry.

I agree -- it will look just fine and no one will be able to find it once the quilt is finished.

The question is not whether it would drive us crazy, but whether or not it would drive you crazy. If you can leave it and be content, then leave it. If it will drive you crazy, then fix it.

Well, I still have to disagree. And, yes, someone will notice, I've had it happen. My daughter says,"get over it, mom." I can't after a person pointed out my mistake to me. Just saying ...........

I have this same problem w/batiks as the wrong side can be difficult to identify especially once the strips are cut. Luckily its so hard to tell which is which and no terribly noticeable- at least not to my eye. After quilting it still looks good.:thumbup:

Sorry Tartan it would drive me made if I didn't do something at this stage. If I saw it later in the quilt it wouldn't bother me.
It will only take 5 mins to alter.

As the others have said, only you can tell if it's going to annoy you. What I do now is carry on with the rest of the project and if the offending piece is still bothering me when it's time to put it together, I redo it.

Just recently I cut the wrong size of fabric on one small piece of a BOM and had to join pieces together. To redo it would have been a little pricey as well as a car journey, so I carried on and from even a foot away, you couldn't see the join, so I left it.

Another time I reversed 5 or more 2 1/2" squares on a twister quilt and noticed just before I started to cut them with the little square ruler. A royal pain unsewing, but couldn't bear to leave it as it was.

I am teaching my future grand daughter in law to make a quilt and when she sews something wrong she will ask me if she should pick it out or leave it. Since I am not a perfectionist I ask her if it will bother her later. I think your block looks fine like it is.

Back in the day when I was doing theatrical costumes (high school, college, and community theatre -- sometimes at the same time) I often used the "wrong" side of a fabric for the "right" side. The same goes with quilting, in my opinion, because the back side often has a muted color and/or texture which I really, really like. Once your top is quilted, I doubt that anyone but you will notice. They will be drawn to the wonderful pattern and colorful quilt which you have created. I, for one, would leave it exactly as it is. Perhaps you might turn another piece -- or two, or three, or more -- so it looks deliberate.

Because I am OCD-ish, and because it would be pretty easy at this point, I would get out my seam ripped and correct it, but if you know you can leave it as is and move on, I say go for it!

I would leave it as no one else would notice.

I would definitely leave it. I don't believe it is that noticeable. You are doing a gorgeous job on it, and I think it is going to be a beautiful quilt.

It would drive me crazy but, I would leave it anyway. Since I give away most of my quilts I wouldn't be able to see it.

Tartan, I have a quilting mentor that is always telling me I bought both sides of the fabric, to use it however I want to. No one will notice that it is an error, just keep it your secret

I've flipped fabric before, sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose. If it was mine I'd just leave it in.

Life's too short.....leave it!!

I would also leave it. Nobody will ever know.

If i noticed it in the middle of this, I would leave it...but since it is on the "end"....i would be compelled to change it....i just ripped out a section of an applique that was "crooked" by only about 1/8 inch....but i could tell. Made me NUTZ !!

Nope......it a secret..........like wearing red undies, hee hee...calla

I would probably leave it.

I've done that, but didn't notice until the whole quilt was done. No one has ever noticed that it was backward. I've seen advice where they say to try to use the reverse side if you don't like the right side.

The nice thing about fabric is that it has two sides. In this example it really isn't noticeable at all that you are using the back side. I would leave it.

I would leave it. If you had not told us I would not have noticed.

It looks like another neutral to me, I would definitely keep it.

I have done the same thing before. It never really bothers me. Don't the Amish intentionally put a mistake in their quilts to show they are not perfect? Besides, once you get the pieces all together in the quilt, I seriously doubt that the "error" would even be noticeable. I made a double Irish Chain quilt several years ago, where one of the blocks was out of place. My LA'er pointed it out to me, but it had already been quilted, so it was not going to be changed at that point. Even though I now know that it is there, I still have to look for it to find it, so it is not likely that anyone else would notice. (Unless you point it out)

I've heard of quilters deliberately using the back side of a fabric to get a more scrappy look. Yours look great to me! Do post the finished quilt top for us.

Leave it, I have left them and it wasn't ever noticeable.