I desperately need to make an update on my
web-log! What have I been doing all this time???
Practicing,
practicing, practicing with my Longarm. Which was not going as well as I hoped.
I have been juggling
with my tension more than was good for me. At one point I was about to put my
machine with the garbage. Good thing it is too big to easily go through a
door.
I really tried
everything in the book on tension and it was truly driving me MAD! When I
finally called in help from APQS they suggested that my timing might be off……
Remember my needle broke and I blew a fuse?
This was the case and
it scared the H… out of me. Always thought timing was a scary thing. But to be
honest, next time I might be able to do it myself, although it does need
accuracy and patience! The latter not being one of my best virtues!
On this same, very
boring piece of cotton I tried several threads. Some needed some tightening
others not. Then I loaded a small Debby Mum panel and started experimenting
with different threads. Stupid me, not taking a look at the bottom stitches.
Well they probably just need some adjustment on the top tension. For me this is
a great reference piece, because I will write all brands of thread and their
thickness on the back.
The next thing I will
do is make a practice pieces that I can use to test my tension, before I start
on a quilt. Ha, is there a learning curve here???
Of course this is not
the only thing I have been doing. I have cut and sewn the blocks for a
One-Block-Wonder quilt. Looks quite nice. Now the setting of the blocks, which
I think will be the most difficult thing to do.
I have Knitting Lady’s
top together, put the backing together, already made the binding. It is all
waiting on a hanger now to be quilted. I will put a pantho on this one, but I
first want to do a practice piece, because this one (Knitting Lady’s quilt)
will be a Christmas present.
From the same kind of
blocks I made a quilt with dog fabrics. I don’t want to call it a dog quilt,
because it will not be for the dogs, it measures 1.80 x 1.80 ( 71 inch x 71
inch). I made the top a couple of months ago and now I put the backing together
and the binding. All neatly waiting on a hanger to be quilted!
Last year when I first
had my embroidery machine I thought I was going to embroider a quilt together
under my machine. There are people who can probably do this, but not me. It
would have been wiser to embroider it block by block and then put the top
together. But the top was there before the embroidery machine!!
As I only did 2 blocks
I am going to back stitch these blocks, make a wider backing and offer it to my
LA!
Next weekend I am
going to the European Quilt Championships http://www.eqc.nl/en/eqc2007/index.htm
in Waalre and I am really looking forward to it. I will meet a couple of LA-ers and hopefully see a lot of quilts done
by a LA-er. Meet lots of other friends of quilting lists. I will make tons of
photos. I hope….
I was planning on
buying a new camera in December, this is called financial planning. Well, so
much for the planning. My camera died on me last week. It is one of the first
digital camera’s and it had the right to retire after 8 years. But I said
‘retire’ not ‘die on me’. Hopefully I have a new one by the end of the week.
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