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Almost Done with Gwen's Quilt

6/30/2012

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I was trying to be really productive today but it didn't end up working out as well as I thought.  We overslept this morning and then by the time I was ready to get started it was around 10am.  I ironed the backing on Gwen's quilt and loaded everything on the machine.  Just when I was getting ready to start quilting (literally I just turned on the sewing machine) Ryan wanted to go get lunch.  We went to run a few errands and get lunch and then I was finally ready to get started.  I start sewing the first row of quilting...and I run out of bobbin thread.  So I reload all the bobbins with thread and start sewing again.  Then I can't get my machine to turn back on.  I spend about an hour unplugging everything and plugging it back in and finally got it to turn on.  I get about one row quilted and the top thread bunches up and breaks...Grrr...So I clean it up, rethread the machine and start sewing again.  Kept breaking threads at the beginning - so annoying!  Why is it that when I only have time to do a little bit the machines work perfect and when I plan on a whole day of sewing we fight with each other?  Anyways, eventually I got everything figured out and successfully finished the quilting.  I went downstairs to get my camera and I found that Ryan and KC were being really productive, haha.
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Willow wasn't asleep but she sure looked bored...
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So after smiling at my silly fiance and pets, I grabbed the camera and headed back upstairs to take a picture of my handi-work.  Here's a picture of the quilt while it was still in the frame but I had already finished the quilting.
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After the quilting is done, I take it off the frame, remove all the plastic tacks around the edges that hold it together while I sew, snip any loose threads and then trim away the extra fabric.  Here's the quilt right after it comes off the frame but before I trim off excess fabric
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Here's a couple of closeups to show the quilting pattern I used (just a basic meandering or wide spaced stipple).
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All that's left now is to stitch on the binding tomorrow and then it will be ready to package up and ship to Gwen, yay!!
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