Hello Happy Quilters! For the last couple of weeks I've been trying to quilt my Gingerbread Man quilt. The progress is slow but little by little she's getting done.
I love it when the light shines through the studio in the evenings, it really helps to show off he quilting.
As usual I started out thinking a simple quilting plan would be best. I had no real plan other than a few feathers and free motion with no marking the quilt. And as usual me, myself and I took over the plan. This trio can come up with good ideas but the ideas usually are more work than I want to do.
Luckily they came up with a plan that wasn't too hard or intense. Lots of free motion feathers with very little marking.
All was going well, just feather this girl to death!
And then this started happening and it was leaving black marks on my quilt. It happened several times and each time I had pick out stitches. For some reason I kept thinking it was a thread or needle issue.
After about 4 or 5 times of this I pulled my quilter off to the side and started taking it apart. I soon realized I was the cause. I wasn't cleaning the bobbin area as often as I should. And I also didn't oil my quilter after my last quilt. Oh the shame. What a mess.
A good cleaning and oiling and I was back in business and things were running smoothly once again. Lesson learned.....well at least for a little while. For some reason I repeat this mistake every few months. Trying to push the limits of my machine when I clearly know what she can handle. Do any of you do this? Am I the only one?
Gorgeous, gorgeous quilting! I too am working on a gingerbread man quilt of sorts today. Great minds think alike. It's not as sweet as yours.
ReplyDeleteFirst off, what an amazing project and the quality of work you've done. Yowza!
ReplyDeleteI am working with an old Franklin machine so he needs oil and attention almost every day, esp. now that I am confined and sewing more.
Your quilting is the icing on the cake.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilting on beautiful quilt!
ReplyDeleteI have a question: are you quilting on a longarm or domestic?
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is phenomenal!!!!
Thank you. I have a midarm(Bailey Home Quilter 15) on a 10' frame.
Deleteinstead of cotton swabs have you considered white pipe cleaners? They would leave less cotton fibers to get caught in things. This was recommended to me so I'm just giving you something to think about.
ReplyDeleteThe cotton absorbs the excess oil so it doesn't get thrown out of the bobbin housing onto my quilt frame or quilt. I've used pipe cleaners and didn't care for them, they don't absorb oil as well.
DeleteGlad to hear you are doing well! Your quilting is beautiful! Isn't it funny how something as small as dust can cause such a problem? lol! One of these days I'm going to try FMQ on my Janome... soon! :-)
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