And now, Pride of Place on my design wall is my Sleigh Bells Ring WIP.
It's coming along--I finished another block this morning after dealing with "the grumbler" [and you KNOW who that is!! lol].
As I look at this, I am thinking that I will be making it a whole lot bigger than I first thought--I am really enjoying putting these together.
(Dawn, you should be spotting some of your fabric in these blocks--they fit right in--merci beaucoup mon amie!)
One thing I learned is that my feed dogs on Helga are Waaaay too far apart when the plastic 1/4" footsie is on; really, only one feed dog is pulling the material through and therefore: pulling to the left. Aaaargh.
I have upped the presser foot pressure a bit to try to compensate for this, but it is still a battle of "feed dog vs. Julierose"!! But am doing the best I can with what I have (meanwhile the metal 1/4" foot is somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean being rowed over by Viking longboat, I think--I ordered it Oct 6th!! I hope they don't drop it overboard! Seriously--how could it take this LONG??).
Anyone have any suggestions how to overcome this problem or dealt with it??
H E L P!!
I may have to resurrect my old Pfaff Varimatic and give it another chance. I had it overhauled at my LQS and it started jamming [something about the timing he said!]about one week after--and I was minus $85!!).
Maybe resting under my cutting table made Heidi (that's the Pfaff) re-think jamming on me??? Like DH says put it away for a while and then take it out again and see....a good weekend project for me.
I also sewed up some more squares to make triple 9-patches this morning...
will try to get some cutting in tomorrow--but will have to do them a little at a time....
We have been invited to lunch with some musician friends of ours tomorrow, so hopefully DH will be feeling well enough to go.
Hugs to you all --and come and see my latest work on Monet's City at Hexagon Alley .
Julierose, La Blageuse
