The winter weather event that we had received so many dire warnings about skirted our immediate area. Areas a few miles to our east were not so fortunate. Our city had pretty much shut down in anticipation. Schools were closed, my Tuesday group did not meet, the church office was closed, Bob’s doctor appointment was changed to a teleconference, etc. When we went out with the dogs after 9:00 Monday night, we could see a few tiny flakes, but by the morning the roads were dry. Apparently enough did land on our roof to result in interesting icicles on our rain chain as temperatures rose above freezing.
I’ve added the first border to my Kim McLean project as well
as a few more hexagon flowers which will go on the next border.
The center of my clamshell quilt is quilted and work has begun
on the border. Bobbin tension issues are
definitely making progress sporadic. I’ve tried just about everything I can
think of: rethreading, oiling, de-linting,
changing the needle, adjusting the tension and even giving up on regulated mode
and changing to manual. The last change
seems to have helped, but it still is not entirely behaving itself.
And, needing some instant gratification, I made two
potholders to go with the two aprons I made for my friend. I gave the batch to her Thursday at my
applique group and she seemed quite pleased.
3 comments:
I wondered if you had gotten snow, it is always interesting to see how far wintry weather extends. The forecast here is for heavy rain later this week with warmer weather next week. So weird. Hope you get your longarm issues solved. I need to take mine in but keep putting it off. The domestic machine repair guy says he can do longarms too, and charges much less than "specialty" shops, so I might give him a try. Hope you have a great week!
I'm glad I never thought to learn to machine quilt I hear so many complain of issues with tension and bird nesting on the back of the quilt or loose stitches etc. No thank you I will stick with hand quilting and relax. I hope you can get it fixed ok. We had missed the last snow event and all the snow that we got 2+ weeks ago is finally melted now - there were some stubborn shady spots that seemed to last forever.
I feel for you with the tension issues. I haven't even turned my machine on since the last try in the first week of January. I had so many years of good stitching (since 2008) and now problems.
We have been missed by most of the rain and snow, for a very dry winter.
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