I’ve made modifications to my backing
leaders after watching THIS You Tube video by Lorena. For one I don’t have to find the center of my
backings anymore and I wouldn’t need to use pins too. I haven’t had the chance to try it out yet
but if it works for her I’m sure it would for me.
I had ruler stands made for my long-arm
rulers and it almost looks organised but I guess I will need a little more of
these to make life easier.
The needle shaft on my machine got
hurt and had to be replaced and after the replacement my machine refused to
switch on again. Boy, the problems I’ve
had with this machine, just never seem to end.
I now threw my toys out of the cot and made a list of everything that
has been bugging me, even after several ‘fixes’ and I expect this to be sorted
finally.
The problem just is with 4 quilts
waiting to be quilted I am now (yet again) stranded without a machine and I
don’t have a clue for how long.
At least, not being able to quilt
will make me cook, so for the next couple of days hubby will dine in style.
I’ve finished the top of my Simplify
quilt and with the design wall empty I could actually start another project but
at this stage I am just so frustrated not having my long-arm I just don’t feel
like quilting. Being bored however got
to me and I played around with free motion quilting on my trusty PFAFF 2056
domestic. You just have to love the
tension on a PFAFF. I’ve never FM
quilted on this specific machine and with no supreme slider, no gloves and no
spray basting I popped a test piece under the needle and it just went like a
hot knife through butter. If only I can
have this feeling on my long arm although tension on my long arm has not really been one of my issues.
I also pieced large 15” squares of my
fugly pink fabric in my stash to use as a backing for the donated quilt top
mentioned in my previous post.
Binge watched The Messengers and
moved onto watching Reverie and while my son got me a new laptop I thought I’d
be watching this in bed at night alas be it TV or series on the computer, once
my body hit the sack, I am as out as I can be.
So not much success with that.
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