Just One More Stitch: Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt - 5

Yesterday I went to "Quilt 'Til You Wilt" at the Quiet Mouse. It was just an all-day work-on-whatever-you-want activity, with food, drinks, drawings, and games. I took my hand-crank, since Kristen asked me to, but my Featherweight was supposed to be fixed. I set up the Featherweight and discovered that it was fixed, and it wasn't. The feed dogs didn't clunk any more, but they weren't set high enough and weren't grabbing the fabric. That meant I had to use a stylus and keep pushing it through. Related to that was the problem of teeny-tiny stitches - even though I had it set on 12 stitches per inch. I could use it if I set it on the widest stitch length possible - but as the hours went by, the stitches got smaller and smaller. At about 5 pm, I gave up and switched to the hand crank. I've left the machine at the store so they can give it to the repair tech again.

Quilt 'Til You Wilt went from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., and I finished a lot more blocks from The Farmer's Wife. I'm almost finished with the blocks - and then comes sashing and bordering.

Here are the ones I've finished since my last post: