Yesterday, I started quilting the Wine Country quilt inward earnest. I'd spent the previous solar daytime trying to figure out how to quilt grape leaves for the grapevine. Also, I was looking for pictures of grape leaves. I constitute quite a few, in addition to it seems the leaves of grapevines exhibit every bit much variation every bit whatever other blooming things inward a garden. Toward the halt of the solar daytime yesterday, I noticed I needed expect no farther than the edge of my ain quilt.
I'm using a Gutermann l weight thread on top, because that's what I convey inward my stash. I had 2 used spools of this, in addition to I've already finished off the outset one. I'm working amongst the 2nd one, in addition to I've ordered ane more. Ordering some other ensures I'll convey plenty of thread on this ane remaining spool to larn through the whole quilt, if yous know what I mean.
On the bottom, I'm using a gilded Essential thread from Connecting Threads. I believe this also is a l weight thread.
So, I practiced a niggling to a greater extent than on my do piece, in addition to and thus I flipped the excess backing stuff over to the front end in addition to quilted a span of motifs on the excess batting to cheque my tension.
Starting amongst the embroidered blocks, I had inward take away heed to quilt "vineyards," in addition to I was inspired past times our trip to the actual vineyards this past times weekend. I figured echoing lines going inward dissimilar directions to emulate the Dundee Hills where Oregon's vino solid pose down is most productive.
Okay, thus hither nosotros go. I similar the looks of this, in addition to it's pretty slow to do. Also, I'm stitching inward the ditch roughly each block.
Then, I was ready to laid out quilting the grapevine inward the borders in addition to sashings roughly the blocks.
It was entirely a few minutes earlier Sadie showed upward to brand certain I had everything fix correctly.
Is this bobbin winder thingy loaded propurrly?
And what well-nigh this quilt respite system. Are yous making expert purpose of this?
I encouraged her to sit down inward the chair beside me, simply she constitute that discouraging, in addition to left the room.
My motif isn't actually large plenty to fill upward the infinite I convey unless I quilt it ridiculously big, in addition to thus I filled inward some of the empty infinite amongst to a greater extent than grape clusters in addition to those curly-cue things yous run into on the vines.
And...I don't know...Maybe I should convey done something a niggling to a greater extent than symmetrical, simply I'm going to proceed on.
Uh-Oh. Here comes Big Foot.
He likes to scratch his mentum on the machine, in addition to ane time thoroughly scratched, he also left the room. Quilting is tedious for cats.
I was having problem amongst the occasional birds nest on the quilt back, which interrupted the period of time of things. I tin hear it when it happens, in addition to thus I was having to halt occasionally, cutting thread, in addition to ready things. That's where the "whine" on the Wine Country quilt came in.
Later inward the solar daytime I idea to purpose my TOWA bobbin tension gauge to cheque the bobbin tension. Usually I create this amongst every bobbin change, simply I forgot that measuring for most of the solar daytime yesterday. This forenoon I did a search to run into precisely what causes birds nests piece quilting, in addition to it seems the bobbin tension mightiness convey been the effect all along.
Hopefully, today's quilting volition larn to a greater extent than smoothly. For yesterday's effort, I finished a row of blocks, in addition to I'll larn at to the lowest degree some other row finished today. I figure a row a solar daytime in addition to a solar daytime for the edge should convey the quilting finished past times the weekend. This quilt was started inward May of 2016, in addition to thus it volition live on expert to larn it into the finished pile.
That's where my solar daytime is headed. What does your solar daytime hold?