Backtracking

So I've been working on a project for a friend. Unfortunately I found a mistake in what I had done. I could have redone the rest of the pattern to compensate for my mistake or rip out half of what I had already done and do everything right. I'm a perfectionist at heart so any mistake left uncorrected would bother me so I ripped everything out. Here's the before and after pictures of what I had to undo. Believe me when I say I wasn't a happy stitcher.

The project went from this:





To this: