If you can't see it from a galloping horse...

...then the mistake in your quilt isn't important.
This is a useful quilting observation.
Another one is, "if it's still ugly, you haven't cut it small enough."
If I merge and paraphrase the two sayings, then I arrive at

"If you photograph it from far enough away, you won't be able to see the mistakes from the back of a galloping horse."

What's better - to push on and finish the project, which will show where my current skill level is, or scrape the basketweave applique off the background fabric, using my fingernails if necessary, and starting all over?

I'm going to push through, but just as an experiment, here are pictures from a great distance. No horses were galloping though my sewing room, so PETA: no comments please. Readers may, however, wish to run past their computer screens very fast. Also, clapping 2 coconut shells together can help reproduce the sound of a horse galloping.

Very, very far away

Very far away

 Far away

Up close.
Close enough for now. By the way, that is not a missing piece in the upper right hand corner of the vase. It will be covered by a leaf, so no need to put a bias strip there.