Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Happy Birthday to me!!

It's my birthday today!  This year, I'm not hiding it, I'm basking in all of the attention.   

I'm going to go and buy 4 cupcakes this afternoon.  If I make a dozen, I will eat the majority of them because I have no self control with yummy stuff like that, and my diabetes will not be happy about that.  

My gorgeous quilt is almost done.   I ran out of thread yesterday, sigh (19.99 for a spool, good grief!!) and then today I battled tension issues of some sort.  At first I thought it was  too much lint  (I'm not liking cotton thread because of the lint issue) so I undid all the parts to clean out the lint.   Then I realized it was the big spool of thread that was dragging on it's holder, causing the tension and rats nest issues.  

I highly highly recommend you all turning your machines perpendicular and machine quilting this way.   It is so smooth and you don't get sore!  You don't need to battle with a ton of fabric in the throat of the machine either!

Anyways...off to finish my quilt.  It's my birthday, so it will be finished!

8 comments:

  1. Well, happy birthday to you! I'll eat the cupcakes that you don't!

    What do you mean by turning your machine perpendicular? Is this a longarm or do you have some fancy table or something for your standard machine?

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  2. happy birtday to you!!! I am also battling the tension issue, but have a lesson with my new machine tomorrow so I will have to wait until then. Have a fun night!

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  3. Happy Birthday to you! Hope it's lovely as can be. Can't wait to see your latest creation.

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  4. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I hope it's a fantastic one!

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  5. Happy Birthday, enjoy your cupcakes!!

    Can you take a photo of you (that may be hard - get someone else to do it!) quilting on your machine perpendicularly?

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  6. Happy Birthday!! I hope you have had a great day and all the cupcakes you could manage :)

    I turned my machine last time - and it helped so much!! I never would have thought of it but that's my plan for now on :)

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  7. Happy Birthday, hope you had a great day.

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  8. happy belated birthday! i hope it was a great one!

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