In case you were wondering how many hexagon rosettes Rebecca can stitch together in the time it takes a skilled gastroenterologist to perform a routine colonoscopy, the answer is ONE. Behold, the fruits of my labors:
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| The Cuteness of the Bunny Rabbit Hexie Rosette! |
I will not be sharing the photos of what the GE surgeon accomplished whilst I was stitching, as that would be gross. 😉
I suppose I should clarify that I was not the patient on the receiving end of today's colonoscopy. I was the wife and designated driver of the patient, forced to endure 3 dreary hours in the hospital waiting room without benefit of any of the fun party drugs they gave to Bernie for his "procedure." I estimate that it took me somewhere between 1 1/2 to 2 hours to stitch up my bunny rabbit surrounded by stars, and this activity put me in much better spirits than I was in after getting lost in the parking deck and struggling to find my way to the Endoscopy department of the hospital after dropping Bernie off at the front door. Fun times. Had I not brought a hand sewing project, I might have bit someone's head off. Sewing really is a win for everyone.
My collection of hexagon rosettes is growing! Fourteen completed, 154 more needing to be made. I keep saying that I should get back to making the blocks for this quilt (or clean the bathroom, or start getting the tax documents ready for our accountant). And then I decide that I shall definitely do all of those important things... Right after I make just one more cute little rosette.
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| 14 Finished Hexie Rosettes! 154 More to Go |
In other news, there is a quilt on my long arm frame. It is a 2024 temperature quilt top made by one of my favorite clients, and it was impeccably pieced but it has been giving me some grief and forcing me to spend more alone time with my seam ripper than I would like. 😬.
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| Spiral Quilting on Carrie's Temperature Quilt |
I am experiencing thread breaks and shredding when the quilting direction is traveling up and towards the back left corner of the frame. I have tried all of the usual remedies, like new needle, larger needle, different type of needle, tension adjustments, looser tension on the quilt sandwich, silicone thread lubricant, changing to a different thread (hence four days of ripping out the first row of quilting using the other thread). Then today I thought to have Bernie check the positioning of the leveling "dead bar" -- that's the bar in the photo above with the tape measure attached -- and it was mounted too high, but even after adjusting it my thread shredding issues persist. Super annoying. It's possible something needs tweaking with my longarm frame after transporting and reassembling it after the move, but when I had issues like this several years ago it was caused by a burr (tiny scratch) on my machine's hook and I needed my Bernina dealer to diagnose that and buff it out for me.
But I am not calling my Bernina dealer tomorrow, because tomorrow we are driving to Raleigh for QuiltCon! Yippee, skippy! Y'all know that I still have not unpacked and found homes for all of the sewing crap I already own, and that ought to dampen my enthusiasm for shopping the vendor mall at the show. However, remember that whim I got about finishing off the ruler work and digital custom quilting on my Deco Bed Quilt with big stitch hand quilting in heavy weight threads?
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| My Ideas for Adding Hand Quilting to My Deco Bed Quilt |
I need to bring swatches of my Deco quilt fabrics with me because Wonderfil is vending at QuiltCon and that is a great opportunity for me to select thread weights and colors in person instead of based off of what I see on a computer monitor. I think I want either Perle #8 or Spagetti 3-ply 12 weight, and then I'm going to want to get a few different types of needles so I can experiment and see which type I like best. I'm also going to look for SewTites' booth at the show to see if they have other shapes or sizes of their magnet products that might suit my needs, and Duckadilly for Liberty of London fabrics that might need to find their way into my Stonefields quilt (or at least into my stash).
Anyway, as usual I am not yet packed so I am going to wrap this up at mere novella length instead of giving you the Russian novel length blog post to which you have grown accustomed from me. I will definitely take some pictures at QuiltCon and will probably have things to say about them... Stay tuned!
I'm linking up today's blog post with my favorite linky parties:
MONDAY
Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
TUESDAY
To-Do Tuesday at Quilt Schmilt
WEDNESDAY
Wednesday Wait Loss at The Inquiring Quilter
THURSDAY
Needle and Thread Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation
FRIDAY
Finished or Not Friday at Alycia Quilts
Off the Wall Friday at Nina Marie Sayre
Beauty Pageant at From Bolt to Beauty
TGIFF Thank Goodness It’s Finished Friday, rotates, schedule found here: TGIF Friday
SUNDAY
Frédérique at Quilting Patchwork Appliqué
Slow Stitching Sunday at Kathy's Quilts
Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework
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