Please suggest a backing fix
 

I'm not sure how this happened, but somehow I ended up with excess skinny pie-shaped bit of fabric on my backing. It's about 16 inches long and grows from about .5- 1.5 inches wide long folded over.

My first mistake was sewing the binding to the back and bringing it to the front (meant to do the opposite). GRRRR. But that isn't really an issue now. It's the aesthetics on the back. I don't like how you can see the pie shaped excess.

Do I simply sew it down by hand with white thread and call it done?

or

Do I undo the binding along that 16-18" side, unsew, trim, resew, rebind?

Either way a seam will show that's about a 30 degree angle to the edge.

or...

Do I incorporate a label to cleverly mask the flub?

Or something else you could think of?

My friend who will be receiving this for chemo treatments is not a quilter , so won't be inspecting it for faults, but I do want to be proud of it. All I saw is this fault that's glaring at me, and I'm just not sure what to do.

Please help! I know you all have seen and heard just about the mistakes out there, so I'm sure (hoping) this isn't the first of its kind.

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I would do the frog stitch (rip-it) and straighten it out That way you did your best.

Pretty Quilt and your friend will love it.

Could you do the little quilting swirls a 2nd time around and cover the fold up that way? That might be a fast fix.

Or could you just take out that particular area of binding and pull the excess over and resew? I'm so OCD that I'd probably take enough of the binding off redo that small spot. It's a hassle, BUT I suspect it will bother you to high Heaven if you don't.
So it's more swirls or The Froggie Dance.

Not long ago I had to take a great big area out and fix it. As in almost start over pinning most of the whole quilt.
I must be happy with my work or I fix it.
Do whatever will make you pleased with it.

Is that flannel? Did you pre-wash it? If not, I'd wash it and dry it and see what happens. Some flannel shrinks so much it may be hardy noticeable afterward. If it doesn't look better, I personally, would probably stitch it down and call it good. Or appliqué something over it. Your friend would probably never even notice it, because who looks at the back of a quilt? But you can do something to make yourself feel better about it.

Yes, it's flannel on the back, regular cotton on front. W&N batting. Already quilted and bound (except for 12 inches) .

I'd take out the binding and trim and then re-bind. You can do that without taking all the binding off--put a pin either side of the flub and just take out the stitches where you need to trim the flub. Start in the center and carefully snip one stitch, then carefully back out the stitches going both directions--if you don't break the stitches you should end up with enough thread to knot where you have the pins--then it's just a matter of trimming and stitching the binding down. I had to do this when someone put the sleeve on the wrong end of the quilt and stitched it into the binding.

rip it out, smooth it, and resew binding.

I would take it out. (I always say that it's not one of my quilts if it hasn't had a section taken out and corrected.)In fact, I have had to remove and resew more than a couple sections on a quilt I am making this weekend.

Many will not agree with me but in what I see in that last picture if you just sew it down with some matching thread you can barely see it's there! Or you could just slice it off as close to the binding as possible, your friend will probably never even notice unless you decide to tell her. JMHO

i agree with several others here ..take it out. it's not that large an area ..won't take too long to unstitch, trim ..restitch/quilt & reattatch the binding. you'll feel better about anice finish. ..and then just enjoy her thank yous' for the lovely gift, instead of a lot of time explaining to your friend about how you wanted to take your personal time to make her a quilt, but didn't care enough to take your personal time to repair the sewing error in the quilt.

I would just do a blind hand stitch, press well, wash and put my label over the as much as possible.

I did exactly the same thing when quilting my most recent quilt! I bit the bullet and took out all the quilting that was affected. I think you'll feel better about the quilt if you take the time to take out the stitches.

My first thought was also a label. But 16 inches is a very big label. Take it out and redo that spot.

I agree... I would fix it, especially when it's so simple to remove the binding, smooth it out, trim it off and reapply binding. You are lucky the folded fabric is right near an edge and wasn't quilted down.

The fix won't take any longer than hand stitching the fold down, and the quilt will be right instead of wrong.

I would undo binding , then pull ex-fabric cut then stitch binding back on. good luck ...

Thanks, everyone. I did indeed ripped, trimmed and redid it. Wasn't that bad. Just the idea that I thought was almost finished, only to find a frustrating mistake I couldn't live with. I'm happy with it now. Needs a label and then (if I don't screw that up) I can deliver my gift!

Glad you re-did it. I would have spent ages trying to think of anything I could have done BESIDES fix it and then fixed it anyway.
I'm sure she'll love it.

Watson

Yep, I DID spend ages trying to avoid fixing it, as if someone could pull a magic solution out of the air. (Which this group could do, I'm sure!) But deep down, I knew the only way I could live with it was to redo it. You know, it's a whole lot harder to take your own advice than to give it!