DD2 sent me a photo of my granddaughter (18 months old) putting her Humpty Dumpty to bed in the dolly cot I gave her for the first time. Well of course my heart melted into a big grandma blob of mush and then when DD2 mentioned the lack of bedding for poor Humpty my grandma heart that had melted to a blob started to melt all the more! You know where this is going don't you!!!!
A quick scramble through my off cuts presented me with a couple of pieces of thinnish polar fleece of dubious quality and some left over batting. Right I thought, how long can it take to whip up a little dolly quilt with a simple hatch quilting? Man, I could do that before I go to bed tonight...easy peasy. Hmmmm now wait, the Bernina is set up "mid quilt" with quilt ensconsed...hmmmmmmm...eyes off old Janome set up with its walking foot in preparation for some QAYG blocks I do on and off. Perfect! I leap with great enthusiasm over to the Janome clutching my sandwiched Humpty quilt and off I sailed, err sewed only to find that I can't for the life of me get the tension right. The top stitching looks perfect but underneath the top thread is looping and the bobbin thread just pulls straight out no matter how much I increase the tension! I even tried lowering the tension with no joy there. Is there something special I have to do when quilting polar fleece?
This is starting to feel like an epic journey I neither have the time nor the patience for! Humpty Dumpty may have to just sleep cold!
