Broke the needle while quilting the last row, then realized that the quilt wasn’t centered and I had run out of backing fabric and was quilting on the canvas roller. While ripping out the stitches I cut the quilt in three places. Had to take it off the machine in order to add more to the back, shop was closed, so I had to bring it home in order to perform triage. When I texted my daughter with an update she said, “Well, Mercury is in retrograde.” Leaving for North Carolina in two days. So I guess that’s par for the course.
@margonaut Ugh! I am laughing now but then I called my friend Marianne, practically in tears. So yes, it’s the longarm in my part-time job/quilt shop. I don’t really know how it works, so someone always has to help me. Whenever I use it I’m in a hurry (never a good thing) so usually there’s some kind of issue, but Mercury really pulled a fast one this time! After Marianne talked me off the ledge and I had it mostly fixed, I found a pin wedged inside the quilt. I couldn’t pull it out so I had to cut a hole in the back to get it, then patch it again. I’m ashamed to say that I had bought a back-up gift that I wanted to keep for myself, so I was possibly more motivated to finish the quilt.
March 1st, 2020
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