I desperately need to make an update on myweb-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 jugglingwith my tension more than was good for me. At one point I was about to put mymachine with the garbage. Good thing it is too big to easily go through adoor.
I really triedeverything in the book on tension and it was truly driving me MAD! When Ifinally called in help from APQS they suggested that my timing might be offx85x85Remember my needle broke and I blew a fuse?
This was the case andit scared the Hx85 out of me. Always thought timing was a scary thing. But to behonest, next time I might be able to do it myself, although it does needaccuracy and patience! The latter not being one of my best virtues!
On this same, veryboring piece of cotton I tried several threads. Some needed some tighteningothers not. Then I loaded a small Debby Mum panel and started experimentingwith 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 isa great reference piece, because I will write all brands of thread and theirthickness on the back.
The next thing I willdo is make a practice pieces that I can use to test my tension, before I starton a quilt. Ha, is there a learning curve here???
Of course this is notthe only thing I have been doing. I have cut and sewn the blocks for aOne-Block-Wonder quilt. Looks quite nice. Now the setting of the blocks, whichI think will be the most difficult thing to do.
I have Knitting Ladyx92stop together, put the backing together, already made the binding. It is allwaiting on a hanger now to be quilted. I will put a pantho on this one, but Ifirst want to do a practice piece, because this one (Knitting Ladyx92s quilt)will be a Christmas present.
From the same kind ofblocks I made a quilt with dog fabrics. I donx92t 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 71inch). I made the top a couple of months ago and now I put the backing togetherand the binding. All neatly waiting on a hanger to be quilted!
Last year when I firsthad my embroidery machine I thought I was going to embroider a quilt togetherunder my machine. There are people who can probably do this, but not me. Itwould have been wiser to embroider it block by block and then put the toptogether. But the top was there before the embroidery machine!!
As I only did 2 blocksI am going to back stitch these blocks, make a wider backing and offer it to myLA!
Next weekend I amgoing to the European Quilt Championships http://www.eqc.nl/en/eqc2007/index.htmin Waalre and I am really looking forward to it. I will meet a couple of LA-ers and hopefully see a lot of quilts doneby a LA-er. Meet lots of other friends of quilting lists. I will make tons ofphotos. I hopex85.
I was planning onbuying a new camera in December, this is called financial planning. Well, somuch for the planning. My camera died on me last week. It is one of the firstdigital camerax92s and it had the right to retire after 8 years. But I saidx91retirex92 not x91die on mex92. Hopefully I have a new one by the end of the week.