Scrapitude Block

A quilting friend, who does not read my blog,  is going through a hard time now, so a bunch of us have decided to make her a quilt.  We are all going to make one scrappy block in soothing colors .  Scrapitude is the block that the organizer chose.  It isn't a hard block to make.  Here's  what it should look like:

 

I was having quilter's block today, and the first triangle units I made were 1/2 inch too small.  So I put them away tried again.  Here's what I came up with:

 

 

I was pretty pleased with myself because it was almost exactly 12 1/2 inch square, and my corners looked good.  The problem?  Look closely:  The top middle unit and the bottom middle unit are mirror images of what they should be. 

 

So I ripped out the middle row and made 2 more triangle units, and again, one of them was backwards.  On a normal day, I'd have walked away from the sewing machine, but this needed to get done, so I could get it in the mail, so I persevered.  I ended up remaking the middle four patch too to make it more scrappy, more like some of the blocks I'd seen others making. 

 

 

So it is done, but it was painful!