Larry,
The kite will NO be fully "flagged" if the bar is only a few feet away after ejecting the QR1 as you experienced. If you were standing and doing a self land the process is:
1 - release QR1
2 - both hands on ids line and walk up line (towards kite) and when u reach bar keep pushing away up the ids line for about 3 meters
3 - if kite did not flip in the U position or leading edge down and still has pull, take a step or 2 towards it.
4 - wrap ids line on end of bar to ensure bar does not slide back down towards chicken loop and power the kite back up.
5- grab all 4 lines and and wrap onto bar.