Screwing Up - Quilting Edition

I am getting better at screwing up. Though how I managed to put together an entire quilt block upside down is a little beyond me. It was really depressing for about a minute (because they take at least some work to put together) but then, THEN! I noticed it!

Here's a picture of the finished quilt:

There in the robot tummy is Quilt Block Redemption! The design goes backwards there! I wasn't screwing up, I was unintentionally working ahead! So instead of doing blocks 1, 2, 3, 4, I'd done 1, 2, 18, 4!

This isn't exactly a lemons-to-lemonade style thing, but I'll take what I can get.
Just for reference, here's the design with the correct (new) quilt block:


I think Thursdays are just going to be either Fail Days or Thrift Days (if I can ever stick to a schedule) so be prepared for that.
Have you seen any good craft/art/sewing fails? Or created any of your own?
I'd love to hear about them (to further help me feel less derpy).

OMG More Quilting! Robot Quilt Beginnings

Beginnings of a Robot Quilt
Perhaps, since it's a robot quilt, it's supposed to be called Beta? Or maybe that's just my first version of it, not just the beginnings of the first row of blocks.

I showed Annie a copy of "Dare to Be Square Quilting" (by far my favorite quilting book thesedays) and asked her which quilt she would like for her new baby son Danger (nickname, don't worry). She picked the "Does Not Compute" quilt which is a seriously good choice. I think maybe she's trying to create a theme in her house of large orange and blue robot designs I've made (she also has this giant orange and blue robot painting of mine - just saying).

ANYWAY! I am working madly on these two quilts. Here's what the Does Not Compute quilt looks like when finished:


It's 523 cut fabric pieces sewn into 30 blocks and then, you know, made into a quilt. I'm 2.5 blocks in! I figure he'll get it by the time he's 2 at least, right?

Oh! So in looking for an image of the Does Not Compute robot quilt on flickr I stumbled across a baby quilt sized one ChelseaWa designed and made!

I'm kind of jealous I didn't come up with this design idea myself! But I'm quite happy making something ridiculously big - it will make me feel super accomplished. And hopefully Danger will like it and it can go on his bed (since it's twin sized).

I found some other cute robot quilts while I was searching too!
Zak the Robot Quilt from bumblev


And this Robot Quilt by someone named Jan


I'm off to work on prepping quilt fabric, and designing bowties, and making stuff with zippers, and prepping tshirt material for stuffed animals and latch hook rugs and ... I'll see you tomorrow. :)