No wine involved
 

I love sharing my goofs with all of you who appreciate the humor (and the ripping out that will follow). I was not drinking and was taking the pieces off the design wall to stitch together. Even so.
These are the corners cut off from the blocks used on the quilt front. Didn't want to waste them. I have enough of the theme fabric to finish out the rest of the back.

Oh dear. I hate it when that happens. Happy fixing!

Aarrrrgghhhh...now is the time for a wine and leave the unpicking till tomorrow or after you've had a coffee or two!! haha

I raise my unpicker to the sky in silent homage and respect for the task that is before you!!!

This is when a good sense of humor comes in very handy and a good seam riper. ;-)

Which design will you unpick, be careful.

I love the colors and the boo boo.

I am reading a book now on designing, blending, merging, and exploding blocks. I just thought you had tried some of these techniques. I would go with that theory!

It happens to all of us! I am unpicking or unsewing-which ever term you prefer. I am unpicking quilting that I just don't like and have quite a bit of it to do. I will do it one hour a day until it is done. That could well be July 4th. It has been a UFO for quite a while. I love the quilt and, of course, have lots of money invested in it.

I believe that the quilt I'm working on now could have been TWO quilts, I've taken so much of it apart and put it back together.
My husband caught me ripping out more seams and said, "Well, you're certainly very tenacious."

Watson

I"m thinking a nice glass of wine might have avoided this situation. just sayin.............

I knew I would find sympathy, empathy and kindred spirits here. Thanks. I went ahead and fixed it (the bottom section). Will post both front and back when it's done.

I think you should change the two squares in the bottom row right corner and make that mirror the left corner and it reminds me of rain rippelling in a puddle.

I agree. It has happened to ALL of use at one time or another. I always keep Jack (the ripper) nearby if I need rescuing. :)

Thanks for making me feel better! My last quilt I ripped out more than I sewed!

I like the opps, if it goes on a bed, or when it does, that part could go over the pillows. Anyway I like it.

Seam rippers are our friends! But I sure like that butterfly fabric ...

sorry be there i feel your pain!!

Looks like your fixing just requires some shifting after one long horizontal rip out ant a short vertical one. I'll bet you were in a rush. That's when my goofs always happen.

oops... I'm sure it's going to be spectacular when you get it sorted out. LOL

I'm right there with you! Sometimes I marvel at the creative ways I can mess something up!

I too do reverse sewing all the time! You know you aren't alone.

I hate when that happens, but I think we have all been there. The kicker is if we don't notice it until it's quilted. When my daughter was going away to college, she wanted to take a quilt with her, she said she didn't want a quilt like any of my quilts. Was there a compliment in there? I doubt it. Anyway she went through my stash cutting up squares, wanting no two squares to be alike. She still hasn't found the one fabric she used twice, and I didn't catch it until I was quilting it; but I never said a thing. Anyway, I rather like your new design element in the quilt.

Just tell everyone that you PLANNED it that way.

I thought that I was the only one that "Became one with the seam ripper" LOL did you try the electric ripper yet?

Beautiful colors! Now you can act like a frog and "rippit rippit." lol

Hey, you just created another quilt design.

Electric? That sounds dangerous. I've done even worse damage to a quilt with over zealous ripping. Are you talking about the one that looks like a barber's tool? My BFF bought one and it took two of us to use it. We weren't impressed.

I think when we share are mistakes and can laugh at ourselves it's a good thing. We've all done something a little crazy at sometime. BTW, I keep "several" rippers nearby when sewing. LOL

That is beautiful :)

...maybe a couple glasses of wine may have averted this situation...enjoy & know that this is a rarity....

Ohhh how that hurts -- I did something similar with a Christmas Tree I was making not once but twice and had to recut because of all the biases. A little wine to mellow out while ripping would not go amiss.

I feel for you...been there many times...Pick a little at a time...Have a nice glass of wine while you do it....LOL...