out of a bind.

I was working on my next moda bake shop quilt- a twin size- when the idea struck me to use my mom's old serger to sew up the raw edges of the binding.  I'd read about  people doing it before, but it never before occurred to actually do that now that I had a serger of my very own.

So I zigzagged around the edges (avoiding the corners...not knowing how that would go over).  I didn't think much of it.  I started hand stitching to the other side.

Now a big quilt takes a while to bind by hand, and every night when I decide to call it quits, my ritual is to lay the quilt I am binding out on the floor so I can get a good luck at my progress.  This quilt was no different.  When I finished the first night of binding, I lay the quilt on the floor to revel in my own progress.  This time (much to my husband's aggravation), I left the quilt right there in the floor.  The next morning I went to tidy up and I saw it: a GIANT spot of dog pee..right there in the quilt.  My dog has some mystery disease which apparently only affects MY quality of life and he can't be bothered to pee on our very cleanable tile floor or our wood floors when the urge hits (which is frequently).  Nope, he likes a "grass texture" according to the vet (read: things that are way hard to clean). 

Anyway, what to do?  Do I wait until it dries?  Do I spot wash the pee stain only?  Do I finish binding it really quickly so I can wash it really quickly?  Then I saw my new serged binding and I ran and threw the entire quilt in the wash without so much as a care.  Stroke-of-genius.  Talk about timing.  And that's how I got out of my worst binding bind!

Have you ever had a stain disaster on your works-in-progress???