A quilter brought a quilt on Tuesday and wanted it done
before her dad came to visit.
Fortunately, we have a public holiday today and I could get some extra
quilting time in late last night and in the wee hours of this morning.
I used 5 different thread colours on this, 4 on the top and
1 for the bobbin and it just so turned out that the bobbin winder on my machine
died after winding 2 bobbins.
With the bad luck some good fortune too. I am an absolute fan of Pfaff machines and my the machine on the frame was my first ‘non-Pfaff’ purchase BUT as usual Pfaff to
the rescue and I could wind my bobbins on my domestic. It didn’t quite fill a bobbin as much as the
long arm machine did but I could still carry on quilting with just more bobbin
changes.
The quilt had no less than 4 borders and I did something
different on each and here the first 3 thread changes can be seen.
The forth border was white and yet another thread change.
Because of the time restraint, I did not use any rulers and
decided to deliberately leave some wide-open spaces to allow the quilt to have
plenty of texture.
The quilt was actually way too big for my frame and it took
a couple of nifty tricks to get it done, endorsing my belief that I should not
take on quilts larger than my frame can handle.
Got it done though and glad it came off the frame intact.
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