Baby Quilt Progress and Delay

On Wednesday I started machine quilting Henry's quilt, in the ditch with the walking foot, and couldn't get the stitch to look right. I rethreaded the machine, changed needle, moved upper tension-all to no avail. Alas! Found that the bobbin case is broken, because there is no lower tension at all. I tried tightening the bobbin case screw, but that didn't do anything. The hook must have bent or loosened when I dropped the case the other day. Will have to take a trip to Rochester to have the shop repair or replace. It's so darn cold I haven't been leaving the house-but this afternoon it's supposed to get up to the upper 20's so I may go.

Chrissy's T Shirt Memory Quilt

Ironing shirt fronts to fusible interfacing.

Trimming them up.

My DGD Chrissy came over last week and we cut up a big bag of her shirts from high school and college. I've now finished ironing them to the interfacing and trimming. Waiting for her to come back and arrange them into a layout. Second semester at Millikin has started this week, so don't know when she can get to it!
 In other news, I have made a few more bowtie blocks. For a good size quilt I figured I need 289, and I have 71 now.

I'm swap chairperson for evening guild meeting, and have started the "thread" units for Edyta Sitar's Spool Quilt. Hope the swap goes well, and participants follow the guidelines!

January 8, 2014

Still pretty cold out, so stayed in - but have to go to book club tonight.
I am making progress on my UFO reduction plan, and am working on current projects as well!
The binding is machine sewn onto Hexie Doll Quilt, and is being hand stitched to the back.

 

 

Finished the last two Dixie Diary blocks - now need to get fabric for setting. I am almost finished with the stars for EPP project.

New Year 2014

I've decided that this will be the year that my UFOs will finished! A list of goals for each month has been made; and the first item on the January list is done. It was to finish the "fivies" units for the Classic Strippy quilt from Bonnie Hunter's book Leaders and Enders. I have made 280 of them!

Now I'm working on item #2- finishing Dixie Diary-the  2013 BOM from Barbara Brackman's Civil War Quilts blog.