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Fairy Progress

I am trying hard to not put so much quilting on this one. I decided to use a silver Sulky metallic on her wings which worked well I think. I used a Metallica needle so it all went very smoothly.

I thought it might be fitting to carry on the fantasy metallic look into the foliage since I had a nice green Madiera Jewel that I seem to recall was fun and easy to work with. WRONG! I had this section nearly finished, it looked great on the front, but then I looked on the back! The tension was terrible and the whole thing needed to be removed.

That took way longer to do than the quilting did in the first place!! I tightened the tension to where I got nice stitches on the back but then the thread kept breaking. I kept adjusting the tension, but never did get it to work without breaking so I limited that thread to only this particular leaf fabric and it took all day just to do that!

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2 Responses to “Fairy Progress”

  1. Del Says:
    March 6th, 2011 at 10:31 pm

    Sometimes things are just too frustrating to deal with. Del

  2. Gwynette Says:
    March 7th, 2011 at 12:33 pm

    Don’t you hate it when the take out takes longer than the put in?? I do like the wings.

    I was in Kansas week before last and encountered snow and ice. Nita and I only went to Concordia to the quilt shop and tea room. It was so cold and blustery, that we stayed in and stitched. We usually hit the quilt shops in Salina, Manhattan and Abilene, too!