My tally was up to 10 hours, 2 needles and 4.5 bobbins of spiralling this thing and thinking rather smugly that I had valiantly climbed back up and over the "Hill of Despair" after surviving the texta incident (btw, I can still see the odd faded line or two of pink texta,sigh) and then bravely plunging into the world of "don't bother me dearest for about 4 days 'cause I'm spiralling myself stupid in my little sewing room" when it occurred to me I should be checking the back of my quilt to make sure all is as it should be. So I flipped the sodding thing over and started to peruse it. Not bad; 2 small little puckers, meh, nothing worth unpicking stitches over.....yep.....all good....but
no, what's this? And what's this? (Repeat this another 3 times and raise your voice with each repeat)
Cripes, I have 5 small holes in the backing fabric. They must have been there right from the start but were so small (about 1/4" round) I missed them..maybe I put them there, I dunno but there they are.
I've stitched over them in a rather odd haphazard manner with a hand needle and thread just to stabilise them for the moment but I'm guessing I will need to whack some sort of applique or patch of some sort over them.
What sort of hand thread should I use and would old fashioned blanket stitch be ok? The backing is a dark brown fabric.