The Ugly Side of Machine Quilting

Hey Blog Buddies,

I have been sticking to my goal of constructing two blocks a day for my holiday quilt. I've got 23 blocks done so far (only 7 to go!). It went quicker at first because I had so many squares and triangles cut, but now I'm getting to the end of my initial stacks and I need to cut more triangles, sew them together, press them open, and trim off the little tabs before I can even use them in a block.  Sometimes it's tricky feeding a pointed piece into your machine to be sewn, so just for giggles I thought I'd show you what happened to me.

As you can see, the point

of the fabric triangle

at the top of the photo

has disappeared because

my machine ate it!

This has happened only twice thus far,

so I guess I'm lucky, considering

the number of triangles I've sewn together.

Sometimes the only way I can fix it

is to take the throat plate entirely off

and clip one side of the thread

that's caught way down below

where I can't see, and just

pull it through.

It slows you down, lemme tell ya.

The final destination for this piece was

the wastebasket!

Here is my progress on BBD Jack O'Lantern.

There is a ton of

WDW Carrot

in this little piece.

My quilting buddy Molly gets bored

and tends to fall asleep quickly.

The flash of the camera must have woke her up.

The gray throw is on the floor because

she doesn't like to lie on the bare hardwood.

(Yeah, I know....)

Her back had been shaved

before we adoped her.

(She had an infection.)

It's slowly growing back in.

Molly Factoid:

We have had her three weeks now,

and we still don't know what her bark sounds like.

Was she trained not to bark ever?

We don't know.

We are taking her to the

this weekend.

It's a dog-friendly event.

Hope you have a great first weekend in October.

And thanks so much for visiting!