Last weekend I went to Raleigh to test drive an APQS longarm – it’s REALLY nice!
It’s pricey though, I left there thinking about the minor issues I have with my Juki Long arm and one is the bobbin tension, no matter how loose I turn the screw on the bobbin case, the back of the quilt has tight stitching, hubby ended up spraying W40 on the bobbin winder tension screw “thingy” and I loosened the screw not even 1/4 turn and wound a new bobbin and quilted a quilt and it helped a LOT! I’ll keep tweaking it, both that screw and the bobbin case, I know the bobbin case is SO loose, it’s not right so that means the bobbins are wound too tight too.
The other issues I have are jiggly lines when quilting, it’s nothing major but it still jiggles a bit, then I also think the frame is crooked and pulling to the left, but I compensate with different things so it’s ok for now….. Maybe if a good enough deal comes around for the APQS I’ll get one, we’ll see!
Since I was in Raleigh, I realized I was near Meredith college, so I went and had lunch with Solveig, I took her to waffle house!
Normally she comes home on weekends, but last weekend she had two different things to attend to, so she stayed there, but then showed up here Monday and stayed the night because her Monday afternoon class was cancelled and she starts late on Tuesdays.
Something funny to say, we’re NOT sports fans at all, but each year we tune into the superbowl and sort of watch and I like critiquing the commercials and usually the half time show is terrible…. anyways, Dan cooked up this Salmon on the grill on a CEDAR board! it was delicious and Bjorn and his buddy came over, in the rush of everything we tried to find ABC or was it CBS on our family room TV, but we have Spectrum and can only watch cable TV in our bedroom (not ideal for guests), Dan finally found the game of the Chiefs and 49ers playing and we watched a bit while drawing with the girls, Bjorn and his friend took Chewy for a walk after dinner and it was sort of just chill, but NO commercials, very odd- we figured it was because we were watching over the internet somehow and not thru cable TV, anyways, the guys went back home and by then it was sort of late, so we figured we’d finish the bedroom, the score in there was completely DIFFERENT than in the living room, and I googled the score on my phone and it matched the bedroom TV, then it took me a minute to realize we had been watching a game from 4 years ago! the superbowl #54 and yes Sunday was #58 or whatever. LOL. we’re suck DORKS! I still laugh at it now, we should have known……ha ha
This week I finished the binding on several quilts and when I’ve done several where I sew thru batting, I usually clean out my machine and sure enough there was a little dust bunny in there too, I didn’t shape it quite right, it looks like a dog or whatever, not really a bunny…..
So there’ll be more patterns coming soon!!
Here’s my 2024 project list!
Anything I’ve worked on this week is in red
#1 (Jan 2021) Gnome EPP project- #3 done worked a bit
#2 (March 2022) EPP flowers- working on blocks if I’m outside
#3 (June 2022) Black patterned and grey and pink quilt Bunny Slope LARGE- top done ready to quilt pattern in my shop
#4 (Jan2023) Hunter star rainbow blocks- pink, blue and green done
#5 (Jan 2023) Washington puzzle rainbow blocks- DONE!
#6 (Jan 2023) Crossed Canoe rainbow blocks- 4 done
#7 (Jan 2023) Butterfly rainbow blocks- 8 done
#8 (Jan 2023) Priscilla rainbow blocks- 9 done working on more with alternate blocks
#9 (Jan 2023) Arkansas Traveler rainbow blocks- 5 done
#10 (Jan 2023) Morning star rainbow blocks- 4 done
#11 (Jan 2023) Tangled Star blocks – pink and blue and purple done
#12 (Jan 2023) Chimney Sweep blocks- top done, ready to quilt
#13 (Jan 2023) Storm at sea blocks- 9 done
#14 (Jan 2023) Road to Fortune blocks – 8 done
#15 (Aug 2023) Scrappy Florence- top done ready to quilt
#16 (Aug 2023) red and light blue Contained- top done ready to quilt
#17 (Sept 2023) Charm Arrows quilt- working on blocks- goofed up something so need to rework it
#18 (Oct 2023) Fruit Log Cabin- DONE! pattern here
#19 (Nov 2023) Teal and black quilt no name- top done ready to quilt pattern coming soon
#20 (Dec 2023) Tied with a ribbon charms – DONE! pattern coming soon
#21 (Dec 2023) Window Charms – DONE, pattern coming soon
#22 (Dec 2023) Charm bowtie quilt – DONE, pattern coming soon
#23 (Dec 2023) Jacob’s latter charms – top done ready to quilt pattern coming soon
#24 (Dec 2023) Charming pinwheels – DONE, pattern coming soon
#25 (Dec 2023) Charm Wrench quilt – top done ready to quilt, pattern coming soon
#26 (Jan) Pineapple blue and red quilt – top done ready to quilt
#27 (Jan) Angelic charms- DONE, pattern here
#28 (Jan) Beachcomber jacket- DONE!
#29 (Jan) Safety scrappy – top done ready to quilt
#30 (Jan) Sweet Dreams sort of scrappy – working on blocks
#31 (Jan) Coin Toss scrappy – working on blocks
#32 (Feb) FQ dreams temple court quilt- working on blocks
#33 (Feb) Optical baby quilt- working on blocks
#34 (Feb) Providence quilt – working on blocks
I’m still looking for more pattern testers BTW, if you want to be added to my list, just email me