News on the quilting front here is not good, sorry to say. I was so proud of myself as I had quilted the outside border feathers plus one round of echo quilting. I worked for several days off and on to get it done so as not to stress my shoulder too much at each sewing session. It all looked so nice, even with the few slight wiggles every once in a while. I did find a big problem this afternoon that requires me to rip it all out though.You all might be wondering what was so wrong that I have to take it all out. You may have to enlarge the photos to see but I quilted the feathers with the wrong color of thread, plus to add more ripping I did that first row of echo quilting with the wrong color of thread too. I sure don’t know why I didn’t pay more attention when I grabbed the thread to do the feathers. The other feathers are the color of the silk thread I used for the echo but instead and on this border I quilted them with the gold colored silk thread. The echo quilting should be the really neutral ecru silk thread instead of the light tan. The thread color doesn’t look so different in the photo but in real life it is quite noticeable.
This ripping is going to take a while as the stitches are small (1.8 on my Bernina) and the top thread is silk so breaks if I tug on it too hard. I am using a bright light and my magnifying clip on lenses to make the job a little easier. Think this is going to be a TV watching project and may take a while. I am so bummed as I thought I was nearing the end of the quilting.
Oh well, at least I didn’t get all the echo quilting done plus the fill quilting around it finished before I saw the boo-boo. The thread didn’t look bad but want the piece to look coordinated with the same threads so it has to come out and be re-done. Guess I need to think of what I am removing as practice and maybe when I stitch it again it will look even better.
One major good thing about this whole disaster is that I didn't remove my feather quilting design marks. I thought about spritzing the border with water last evening to remove the blue marks but decided to wait until today and boy am I glad I made that decision! Remarking would have not been easy so guess things could be much worse.
Wish me luck and a fast ripping job!
Lynn
2 comments:
Oh, don't you just hate it when you do something like that? Unfortunately I've been there more times than I care to admit and ripping it out is tedious but sometimes necessary. Hope it goes well for you.
I once had to pick out the quilting from half of a quilt. I had made an unfortunate choice and made the top from flannel and then put a flannel backing on it. Rip, rip, rip. It took a while, but the new backing working so much better.
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