Ruined My First Project!! Or, Help Me Fix It Please:-)

[Firewalker]

On 12/15/2017 at 10:07 PM, Instinctive said:

I might be tempted to just leave it and let it pick up a patina. Here is a before and after of the same finish after a couple of years use.

Even better with time!  I dig it!  

To the OP, I would also just roll with it.  If you need a pick me up I will show you a properly ruined piece that was going to be dyed a light blue with some USMC black soaked all the way through.  I used a dauber to apply it and I wanted it nice and dark.  Well...... it turns out that passport wallet needed to be black inside and out.  Poof!  Lemonade.  Nice job on your project! 

Scott 

[Grumpymann]

I had the same problem (still am really)  for me it came from the finish soaking through and pooling. I had to change the way spread it on the back side of the project.

[Sheilajeanne]

My SIL made a Roman blind for their living room. She pieced together 3 swathes of upholstery fabric which were left over from recovering one of their couches. The first time I saw it, I told her how beautiful it was and what a wonderful addition to the room it was with the way it matched the couch.

She told me I had NO IDEA of the struggles she went through making that blind, and how awful she thought it was. The main problem was the fabric stretched as she was trying to sew it. so the blind turned out uneven.

I had to look at it VERY closely to be able to see what she was talking about.