Can't Machine Quilt...Why Does Machine Skip?

[speckledhen]

She's here! She's here! My new baby is here! I think I shall name her, I've waited so long. Going to make sure she's clean inside, oil her up and get used to the way she moves and grooves! I already learned to wind bobbins and thread her. I got such a great deal that I have enough left to throw at our new barn. I spent less than half of what I'd already saved up to buy one.

 

[robhuncor]

Have fun!

 

[speckledhen]

It's a dream! Thanks to Rhonda (her tentative name), I finished quilting this Lone Star wall hanging today, easy peasy! It just glides along, beautiful stitches, many fewer mistakes on my part when I'm not having to continually wrestle a wadded up piece through a tiny throat space. I love my machine and I'm so glad I took a chance on this one. Saved me enough to pay for the dozer work for our new barn pad over the one I had originally settled on (but could never find one used). Next project-to finish the baby quilt for my grandnephew who is due in January. It's been pinned together waiting on my new machine. And then, there are the two queen size quilt tops after that and so on....

 

[SuperK]

Sweet Machine and awesome quilt! I love it when a plan comes together!

 

[speckledhen]

Sweet Machine and awesome quilt! I love it when a plan comes together!

Thank you, you're so sweet. I do love this machine. I am still no expert at machine quilting but with this little beauty, I will get better. She's just what I needed.

 

[speckledhen]

Taking a break from my Leavenworth Project (building a rock wall) to start this cowboy baby quilt for my soon-to-be new grand nephew.

 

[SuperK]

This is nice!

 

[speckledhen]

This is nice!

Thank you for being so supportive. It sure helps! I got the word that my nephew and his wife were decorating the baby's room in a cowboy theme so that's why the cowboy quilt. Wasn't easy to find suitable fabrics for it, but it's a simple design with a flannel backing in a cool Route66 theme. I am using a neutral thread in the bobbin for the back and a variegated one with reds and blues for the front. Hope they like it. I rarely do quilts for family but I gave one to my newest grandniece and I felt I should do one for this baby, too.

 

[SuperK]

This will be perfect! As I was growing up Westerns were a mainstay at the movies- we all wanted to grow up like the movie cowboys- I was twenty before I realized I lived just 10 miles from the great Roy Rogers! By then of course, I was out of my cowboy phase. LOL

 

[speckledhen]

I was surprised, really, though. Doesn't seem like westerns were really in favor with the younger crowd, who love the superheroes, but I've wanted a modern-day TV show to be created, similar to The Big Valley, just with current day characters. The closest I've seen and loved is Longmire. We need something different and more substantive on television, for us and for kids.

I finished the quilting in short order. My hardest thing is to be consistent with the size of the design. Like swirls-I start out with loose, larger ones and always, they end up tighter and tighter by the middle so that by the end of the quilt, it's denser.