All that stuff I said I might do yesterday?

My imagination seriously outweighed my ambition.

I did none of it.  None.

In my defense, I think I'm coming down with a cold.  Headache-y and snotty and "draggy."  Didn't accomplish a thing all morning except finishing a James Lee Burke novel.  Finally, around 2 p.m., I made myself get up and go to the sewing room to work on the wedding quilt, a machine quilt-as-you-go project.  

You might remember that The Granddaughter's quilt is a quilt-as-you-go project in which I quilted and joined the blocks by hand.  The procedure I used on that quilt is different from the machine-quilted method I learned from this video:  

Join & Flip Quilt As You Go - FULL QUILT DEMONSTRATION (including borders!)

The wedding quilt will finish roughly 81" x 81".  I decided to piece the top (3" x 3" blocks) in quadrants and then join the quadrants together.  The top two quadrants are pieced and quilted.  Yesterday, I attempted to join them together.

Oh, boy, did I screw up.  

I should not have quilted the top left quadrant.  The joining method described by the above video would have me first sew the backing and the top (but not the batting) of the top right quadrant to the already-quilted top left quadrant.  Then, I was supposed to insert the batting and quilt it.  But I'd already quilted it.  All the way to the edges.

I will skip over the host of problems that this presented.  My eventual solution was to hand-sew the two quadrants together, using the same method I'd used for The Granddaughter's quilt.  I took out enough of the quilting to free up a seam allowance, pinned the two sections together, and left the project on the sewing table for another day.

In the middle of the night, a solution presented itself out of the blue.

Here's what the quilt it supposed to look like when it's done (minus the scribbling):

During the night, it occurred to me that I might rotate the top right quadrant a 1/4 turn and use it as the BOTTOM right quadrant, at which point I could proceed on the sewing machine as shown on the video, without having to do any hand stitching.  The first thing I did this morning was to check the theory, and IT'LL WORK!

WHEW!

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It rained last night.  Nix working in the garden today.  

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Look at this place on my hand where the wart was frozen two days ago.  

Is that not disgusting?