I was making a holiday wall hanging as a gift, and was going to turn the back around to the front for binding. As I was trimming the front/batting (using a rotary cutter) I totally failed to properly tuck and protect the backing and slashed through my backing in several spots. Due to the post-quilting embellishments, un-quilting and re-backing wasn’t an option, and I wouldn’t have had time anyway. It was sufficiently busy fabric and I had extra, so I hand stitched patches onto the back to cover holes and consoled myself that it would be packed away for 11 months a year and facing a wall for month 12. Sometimes you gotta let go.