Amish Error

In case you are not familiar with "Amish Errors", I will fill you in!  Amish women are renowned for their beautiful hand-sewn quilts.  But if the quilt appears that it will be "perfect" when it is finished, with no mistakes showing, Amish women will typically put a "mistake" in the quilt on purpose.  "Only God can make something perfect," and if a woman ends up with a perfect quilt, she has just equated herself with God, which is totally unacceptable! Thus, the "Amish Error!"  A PLANNED "error."  Just like I plan to do with Max's 2-block quilt!  Because...!

Well, of course, I changed up the pattern of the 2-block quilt halfway through the sewing! I decided to put all those extra half blocks (a pieced border, actually) to all 4 sides of the quilt so the quilt border will begin at the end of the "circles", with the star points touching the border.  My quilts always "morph" into something different than when I started! The  problem with doing this is that I was "3 whiskers short of a cat" when it came to the gray fabric! I needed just SIX more HST's to complete the pattern I had in mind.  SIX!!  That is such a tiny bit of fabric, but I couldn't come up with it, not even in the scraps.  What a dilemma!  Everything else was ready, all the other units were sewed.  I racked my brain on how to proceed.  Many scenarios floated through the fog of my  disappointment and I came up with this:

IF I ripped out the 4 corner HST's from each corner of the quilt, and replaced them with 3 1/2" squares of purple, the corner would look like a square corner in the border (acceptable!  I tried it.  You can see the difference n the photo below.  The upper left HST is still there and not yet replaced.  The upper right has been replaced with a purple square, and it looks just fine! )  I would gain 2 gray/white HST's by replacing them with purple squares.  That's a lot of work for 2 very small patches, but I'm desperate!! If I did that, I would only need 4 more gray/white HST's. I could substitute a different gray print very close in value.  I could make 4 HST's from that gray, and put them in 2 corners where they would not be as noticeable. ...  OK, let me try that and see how it looks... I can just call it my "Amish Error!"  Can you find the "Amish Error" in my quilt?!

I'll zoom in a bit...See it now?

Look at the Gray/White HST's in the corner!  Yes!  A different gray fabric!  BARELY noticeable!!  Here's a close-up.

I will keep this plan and finish the quilt.  There is one more set of these gray/white HST's in the diagonal corner which you can't see here.  And if per chance someone notices and comments, we'll just compliment them on their attention to detail and tell them Congratulations!  You found the Amish Error! 

When I post the pic of the finished quilt, look for The Amish Error again!   It blends in so well, I bet you'll forget all about it!

(Oh, by the way, I have decided to use that royal blue "floral" print for my outer border after all! Looks nice, don't you agree?)