It Was Supposed To Be Easy...

 Choose a backing, sandwich with batting and the top, and quilt. That's all I
needed to do. I secured the backing to my table, pinned everything in place
(more than I needed to) and double-checked to make sure there were no
wrinkles on the back. I meandered until the quilt was assembled. All I'd
have to do would be to add the binding and I'd be finished. Simple, right?

I used the best fabrics. I chose Moda's French General fabric for the back, and
I should have been finished by last evening. Except for one thing...the backing
fabric stretched during the quilting process and left puckers in one back section.

I had to make a decision. How was I going to fix this mess? If I picked out the meandering, I'd have to remove over half the stitching. As it's a Headstart quilt, we are asked to do a lot of quilting so they don't fall apart in the weekly wash.   That means that frogging those stitches would take me all weekend. I'm just like everyone else. I don't really like to pick out mistakes - especially if it's the fabric's fault! I decided that I'd grab a needle and sew a pucker down to see  whether or not it would "disappear" into the quilt. Wishful thinking. It didn't.   After looking at it a little longer, I decided that I'd hand applique' baseballs over the quilting snafu. I'm thinking it's going to look great. Even though it will take another day to do the applique' and red embroidery, I'd much rather spend my time doing this, than undoing something else. I'm happy.   I think it's going to be really cool when it's finished, and I definitely won't be using that fabric as a backing again! I'll be sure to use a nice, crisp,  fabric for the back of the "girly" quilt. I don't want this to happen again.   I'm off for my Saturday morning date with Handsome and then I'll get  this quilt finished so I can move on to the next one. Do something fun, ok?