Checking in....

I've  been  busy; almost too busy to stop and take pics..  actually, too tired to take pics when I think of it ( or  the quilt has already been  rolled up so the quilting doesn't show).  The latest quilt is ALMOST done... one more row and then the borders need to be completed -  and I have to rip the stitching out in one of  the blocks in the first or second row and re-stitch because the tension was BADDD.
I've had quite a few issues with this quilt.... first the tension, which wasn't  that hard to adjust - just took time and some froggin'.  Then the thread kept shredding... I switched to a new needle but that didn't seem to help; I switched from a 16 to an 18 after checking Superior's website to see what they  recommend for So-Fine thread... that helped a little but it still kept shredding occasionally ... I loosened  the tension one more time and that seems to have fixed it.. knock on wood.

Ok, here's a pic of what I've been working on... I'm calling it  "One of these blocks is not like the others" because that's what happened.  I accidentally cut one of the blocks backwards and didn't have any  more fabric and didn't want to go buy  more.  The reds are from a layer cake that I bought at MSQC that sat around here for months waiting for me to decide what to do with it.  I used one of their videos to do the quilt, but I'm not sure I did it right - it might be a whole new design LOL.

I think with this quilting pattern it will be harder to pick out the odd one.  Sure is time consuming  -  about 15 minutes per block... ruler work.  It's far from perfect, but hopefully before guild meeting tomorrow night, I'll be able to call it done. 

I'm liking it a whole lot  better with the quilting.... LOTS of texture.  I'm putting just  a big meander in the outer border - it's red print so hard to see so I didn't want to do anything labor intensive or detailed.  In the small inner border I'm doing just a somewhat straight line down the middle with a circle every two or so inches.  It didn't need a lot and I thought that it gave it a little more movement.  I'll take a pic of the inner border tomorrow.

We got our new numbers for the All People  Quilt UFO 2017...this month is #2 - my 'beach quilt'... a top that's done but not done... it's HUGE - too huge and I need to figure out how to make it shorter - it covers a queen size bed from the head to the floor at the foot.  arghhhh  and I've got some more things that I want to do to it before I put it on Mo'e to get it finished.

TTYL