What's wrong with this block?

Okay, what is wrong with this block? I started sewing my big blocks together, and what did I find? One small triangle block turned the wrong way. I caught a couple of these when I was pressing them after I had sewn them in the first part. I found another one when I put the first part of the star block together. But I looked at this one when I was sewing the rows of big blocks together, and found another twisted one. I know I looked at these blocks at least six times to check them to make sure everything was in the right configuration. And this one slipped past me. I think there was a sewing gremlin in my sewing room at night and resewed my work! I am sure of it. I did finally get all the blocks together. I planned that I would get the top done on Saturday, but NO. Then I decided that it would be together on Sunday, and that I could get a picture to post in my blog on Sunday. But NO! The top was finally finished late last night, but not early enough in the day to get a picture outside in the almost sunshine. It is overcast this morning. The haze is burning away, slowly. When the sun started to peak through the haze, I dragged Hubby outside to hold up this top. It is so big, over 90 inches square. This picture does not show the entire top clearly because Hubby is not tall enough, nor has long enough arms, but you can see most of it. I am not super happy with this quilt. I think it is too busy. With a two block design, I feel one block should be more predominant, or one of the blocks should blend or recede into the background, like a snowball block. With the colors I used, I feel my blocks are competing with each other instead of playing well together. Then there was this issue with the outside border. I wanted to use one red piece for all the red squares. I cut out my six 5.5 inch squares for the last border. When I started to sew them on (the last two), I realized I needed eight squares, not just six. There was only enough fabric for six, so I used a different red for the corner squares. That worked okay, but it is just typical of what happens to me when I put a quilt together. There is always something to upset the apple cart! I did receive good grades in math in school. Honest I did. But geometry was not my favorite subject. I say this problem fell into the geometry category. I could only envision six squares, not eight! This quilt is so heavy, and it is not quilted yet! There is a seam every two inches, and it is over 90 inches square so that means a LOT of seams. I used nearly three big spools of thread to piece this top. I was so tired last night when I was wrestling this quilt in my small space to apply the borders. I am accustomed to smaller quilts, baby and lap size. This one was hard for me to handle once all the 25 big blocks were sewn together. The UPSIDEof this issue is that it is FINISHED. I will take it to a machine quilter since it is too large for me to handle on my home machine. I am so glad it is finished. If I ever mention, again, that I want to sew a mystery quilt in December, please, please discourage me!

My Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt will have it's first California Christmas this year, 2010. This is gonna be a great year!!!

Happy Quilting