Un-sewing :(

Today I have been practising my frog stitch - Rip it, Rip it, Rip it...

I have always loved old quilts that have a block turned the wrong way or a bit of wonky applique! I like the handmade quirky look! I love the Amish philosophy that only God is perfect and the fact that they sometimes make a deliberate mistake.
I alway try to be accurate and follow the pattern instructions, but let's just say I have never had to make a humility block on purpose! After all does it really matter? I don't profit from my quilts and I don't enter competitions, no-one has ever rejected a quilt I made on a cold winter's night because a block was upside down!
So when several people pointed out that some of my four-patch blocks (orange & cream squares) for the Easy Street Mystery were the wrong way round (There's a right way?!!) my first thought was to leave them. The more I thought about it, the more I realised that yes, this would actually bother me. These squares form a second design when the top is sewn together, framing the blocks beautifully. You can see how nice Bonnie's looks (her's are grey/white)

While mine looks a sort of mess, with orange squares all over the place, obviously wrong even to the proverbial blind man on the back of a galloping horse...

So as much as I hate doing it, today I have been unpicking and correcting the mistakes, luckily it's not every block. I still couldn't face spending all my time in corrections, so I have decided to pull the blocks needed for a row at a time, correct the mistakes and piece the row. I now have my first row completed, it only took 45 minutes, it feels like I am actually progressing with this quilt, even if I am going two steps forward and one back!!

I have also decided on my border fabrics, at least I think I have...