Still making progress

That's after I tackled a BIG OH OH yesterday.  The day before, while trying to baste the borders on the second half of the Amish with a Twist III quilt, I realized that the bottom border ( which is actually a side border) was 'waving' at me - really, REALLY waving.  I'm thinking  "Oh CHIT!!"... and got the steamer out - after I pinned the border as much as I could.  The steamer just seemed to make things worse...... arghhh!!!  Then I remembered someone saying to use starch and steam to tame those naughty borders... so I got the can of starch out and heavily sprayed the border then let it set over night to dry.  That's what I thought I was supposed to do.

Yesterday, when I reached out for advice from fellow longarmers on a fb group, I learned that you don't let the starch dry before trying to steam or press the border into submission.  It was suggested that I use mist to spray as I'm trying to press the wrinkles out.

The starching seemed to make it even worse :(

I ended up removing the border, measuring the inner border, which I thought was also a little wavy and caused my stress level to rise even higher.  After measuring the inner border and then the border that I had removed, I realized that there was like a 5" difference, the removed border being the larger.  ARGH!  How does that happen!?!?   

I trimmed the border to the corrected size and stitched it back onto the quilt, which meant that I had to remove it from the leader and ender bars on Mo'e.  First though, I had to clear out a large area around my sewing machine so that I could handle the quilt without things tumbling onto the floor or getting sewn into the quilt by accident.  The whole process was easier than I thought it would be... pinning the quilt back onto the frame was the difficult part.  

Once I got the correct size border sewn back on and the quilt pinned back onto the frame, I did not try to baste the un-quilted part... I just did the part that was right there in my quilting range and will continue to do the same as I roll to each new section.

I completed another section of the center of the quilt last night before calling it a night so we could have supper ( a late one).  Thankfully, hubby suggested I order pizza - I think he was realizing how stressed I had been.  

In the meantime, I've done nothing else sewing wise... no turtles, no birds, no flowers.... and here it is, June 1st and a new color (dark blue) for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge to make five blocks with.

AND... 'someone' needs to get outside and sand down the sharp edges on the deck so that I can call the guy who is going to come stain it for us.  I think it's supposed to rain again today, so sanding won't be happening - but weather is supposed to be good tomorrow and Monday.

Ok, I'm off to do SOMETHING.... 

take care....

ttyl.......