Staircase Railing Makeover in the New House Because Rebecca Is Picky And Bernie Loves Her

I know most of you only come here for the quilting, so here's a snapshot of where I am with custom quilting my Deco bed quilt as of today:

The End is In Sight for Deco Stitch In the Ditch Quilting!

Side note: I will NOT MISS those garish yellow walls in my Florida long arm studio!!  At first I was living with them so as not to offend my father-in-law, but then once my long arm was set up in there the repainting took a back seat to other priorities.  It is really difficult to get accurate quilt photos with such a vivid wall color as light reflects off the walls and casts yellow onto everything.  Every photo taken in this space has needed to be color corrected with editing software.  Here's what that photo looked like before editing:

Same Photo Before Editing to Correct Color

See what I mean?  And that is with white fluorescent lighting!  My next studio is going to have nice NEUTRAL wall paint.

Okay, back to the quilt: I've done the interior ditch quilting in the top row of purple and blue log cabin blocks but tomorrow I'll need to back up a row and quilt the ditches around each of those green 1" square patches in the row above them.  Do you see that canvas leader edge at the bottom of the photo?  That is the very bottom edge of my quilt top pinned to that leader.  When I get to the bottom I will still have to go back and do additional "To Be Determined" detail quilting in the pieced blocks, but at least I will be done with the tedious slog of ditch quilting.

Should've Gone To Bed: When 20 Minutes of Careless Stitching Yields an Hour and a Half of Ripping

Greetings, Friends!  Today's tale of woe has a happy ending and is chock full of Monday Morning Quarterbacking and useful tips for Future Rebecca.  Let's start with the Happy Ending, shall we?  I finished stitching this row of alternate blocks in my Deco quilt today, so I'm nearly 2/3 finished (with the stitch in the ditch and major digital designs in this 102" x 102" bed quilt that I am custom quilting).  Tomorrow I'll pop off the computer robotics belts from my machine, snap on my ruler base, and work on the stitch in the ditch quilting around the pale purply-pink squares and the green squares in the adjacent blocks.  Doesn't that Teal So Fine thread look pretty against the dark Kona Indigo background fabric?  That is the kind of quilting that says "Notice ME!  And pay no attention to the wobbly imperfections of the stitching in the ditching!"

This Is the Row of Decorative Computerized Quilting I Completed Today

Here's what I was looking at late last Thursday afternoon, when I was tired and wanted to stop quilting for the day but pushed myself to finish out the row:

I Quilted the Wrong Design!  😱