There are all the same many weeks to larn through until January...not to advert several holidays...but you'd never know it to facial expression exterior our windows hither inward the Pacific Northwest. Geez. It has been nighttime together with gloomy for a week. We're expecting improve conditions adjacent week, but sheesh. I approximate it's Mother Nature's agency of saying...get ready. It's coming.
Sadie doesn't mind. She's difficult at operate on her stitching truthful cat job.
Thanks to her difficult work, I finished upwards January's catch this morning.
You powerfulness scream upwards that I met the designer of the Hearts online recently. Her scream is Nancy Buck Huggins, together with she's been difficult at operate getting these patterns uploaded to her Etsy shop. If you're interested inward these, accept a look. She calls her store Basket Case Needlework.
Tomorrow I'll larn a start on February's heart. This volition move the 11th of 12, together with thence these are coming to a close.
Back on the quilting front, I've convinced Sadie to slumber on the chair beside me piece I quilt...for now, at least.
Another row of blocks was quilted yesterday, but non without a lot of fussing together with fuming over skipped stitches. At first, I blamed the unevenly injure bobbin I was using. I kept going together with and thence rewound the bobbin, evenly this time. It made no divergence whatsoever. I all the same was having a massive occupation amongst skipped stitches. On my sample piece, you lot tin run into how it skipped only about 10 stitches earlier catching the bottom thread again.
Checking the trouble-shooting component of the machine's manual, it suggested an onetime or blunt needle powerfulness move to blame. That sounded nigh correct since I didn't modify the needle betwixt quilts. So I set inward a novel needle, inward the size I'd been using (100/16) together with that was no help. [Mad face.] Then I tried putting inward a 100/18 needle. That didn't assistance either. Then I tried rethreading several times. No help. Okay, thence I tried rethreading the bobbin several times. Nothing changed. Then, I adjusted the tension to extremes inward both directions. Even when the tension was looking good, I was all the same getting skipped stitches. I cleaned everything, oiled everything. By then, I was downwards to wondering if it was because I was coming to the cease of a spool. You tin run into the spool was getting depression on thread.
Still, when I pressed my thumbnail through to the spool inside, in that location was all the same quite a lot of thread left.
At that point, I considered the ultimate solution of throwing the car out the window to run into if that helped. Think of it equally the big "Reset" option. Then, I realized in that location was a novel spool of the identical thread inward the mailbox, together with thence I waited until Mike came domicile amongst the day's postal service to run into if a novel spool powerfulness solve the problem. When I had it inward my hands, I loaded it onto the machine...
And voila! Problem solved.
Isn't quilting fun?
Okay, good I'm glad to move starting a novel twenty-four hours amongst a novel spool of thread together with a significantly improved attitude. There is 1 row of blocks remaining, together with and thence in that location is likewise the border. Free displace quilting ever makes my left wrist hurt, together with thence I powerfulness accept a twenty-four hours off. Mike together with I demand to brand a trip to the post utilization to pick upwards a pair of undelivered parcels. [Insert rant hither nigh the crappy postal service delivery service nosotros conduct maintain inward our area.] Actually, alone 1 of us needs to go, but I figure I'll ride along only to move companionable.
When I came upstairs to write this post, I left Sadie snuggled upwards inward a flannel quilt. Just thence you lot know, she doesn't slumber all the time.
Sometimes she hangs out inward the bath because mice are getting into the electrical heater inward there. Who knows how they're getting in, but nosotros know they're in that location when nosotros run into the kitties doing this:
Come pelting or shine, there's ever an conduct chances hither at the Three Cats Ranch. What nosotros actually demand is some other cat.