Hi, I'm so glad you're back! :) If not, then welcome! :)
In my absence I managed to whip up a couple of zipped kindle covers as presents to send them away as gifts. First came the frustration when I tried to quilt them before assembly and my sewing machine refused to cooperate. It was shredding the tread first when I used Coats and Clark. Since I know it's not the top brand that would be everybody's first choice I switched to Superior thread variegated, but still had the same problem. And besides the thread breaks I had skipped stitches. I have to mention that I was free motion quilting with the feed dogs down and stitch length set to 0. My half-front looked like this:
Yes, it's orange... since I didn't grow up with Halloween, I like orange. A lot! So does my stepson's mother who it is for. Yes, I'm nice enough to sew for her, She's kind of nice.
Frustrations were building up with the skipped stitches, I started to question myself. I didn't really understand what's going on, I just finished a baby quilt on this machine without any problems. I researched what could cause the skipping and it was kind of obvious that I needed to change the needle. Check. It was still skipping and breaking the thread. After trying on 3 different parts of the cover I just gave up and wound bobbins for my other Singer and started to work on the projects. I wasted probably a good 3 hours. I thought I could be finished by then. WRONG! :)
In the beginning I decided on the quilting because I was catching up on Leah Day's Free Motion Quilt Along videos (at least the watching part). I really wanted to try the sharp stippling and the circuit board techniques. I think my frustration with the machine is understandable, right?
Anyway... I sewed them and they were the perfect size and that made me very happy. I was using this Youtube video tutorial. It's really easy and I think She explains things very well. They came out pretty nice, I was happy with the result. Hope the recipients will like it too!
Side 1 with sharp stippling:
Side 2 with circuit board:
Inside is one of my favorite fabrics:
Side 1 with sharp stippling:
Sice 2 with regular stippling:
Inside:
I actually messed up because I wanted to sew this floral fabric to the inside of the other one, but I think it even looks better this way. There's always a reason!
I'm linking up to Fabric Tuesdays @ Quilt Story.
I'm linking up to Fabric Tuesdays @ Quilt Story.
'Til we blog again! :)
