Aspen #1

I finished all the quilting on this piece. I put it on the long arm after all. Using it is so much easier than using the domestic machine. I am very happy with how it turned out and now need to get the binding attached. I think I will put a dark purple or a black binding on it. I will need to purchase some fabric if I go with the purple, but have black in my stash. I don't want to go out anywhere. My head is plugged up and I don't know if it is caused from the dust that is created with the material is cut into tiny bits or if I have a head cold. If I have a head cold I don't want to spread anything. I think I am just going to lay around today, will  watch an art program I think.

Here is a photo of piece ready to have the binding and hanging sleeve  added. I just went to Scrap Apple to get some material for binding.

Dec 30

The time sure has flown by. We had a great Christmas. All the girls and their partners were here. Season, my niece, and her husband came from Moab. Megan and Patrick flew from Brooklyn  to LasVegas. We missed being with the rest of the family though. Maybe next year we will all be together.  Candice helped me fix Christmas dinner. I decided to reproduce a pastel I did of aspens in fabric. I took a class from Noriko Endo that she taught at Scrap Apple Quits a while ago. I had only done one of them and thought I would be fun to do on this one.

I have loaded this on the long arm and am going to do the major thread painting on my Innova.  I really like this piece. 

Myrra Olesen's quilt

This quilt wash a challenge....in so much I had issues with my tension. I don't know what is wrong...maybe  I need a new bobbin case. The timing is fine. I can't see any burs of rough places along the thread path. It is very frustrating. My Innova has been wonderful with almost any thread I put in it. Anyway...it's done and I done with clients work until after the first of the year....(Maybe..haha). That is my plan anyway.  This is then third spiral star I have done in the last 3 months and I have loved each of them.

 You can dee pat of the problem I had in this photo. I would check the tension on a separate piece and then move back to the piece, quilt and then roll to see stitching worse than pokies in a few areas. So.... I picked it out and re-stitched.  I used glide on the top and superior thread's bottom line in the bobbin. I choose the bottom line to minimize the density of the back tracking.  I don believe from now on,  if I have issues, I will use the same thread in then top as I have in then bottom. By the time I had decided this, I was to far into then piece to start matching the thread. The would have looked worse.

Time to get the mess cleaned up and get my Christmas decorations out band up! We are going to and cut a pinion pine tree later in the week. 

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! Ours was very quite and that was just fine. I am really looking forward to Christmas and some down time (well not so much down time just different work).