Snooze2978

Well, here's something for all to laugh about as I'm laughing now that I've got it fixed. I'd lost my quilting mojo and haven't touched my machine since I think last September. Finally told myself I needed to get busy as I had 3 quilts that needed to be quilted and bounded by the middle of September this year plus one that I needed to put together. Blocks are all made thankfully. Anyway, about a week or so I got the backing pieced together and attached to the leaders. Then finally last week I pieced the batting using batting tape and a bunch of cutoffs from previous quilts. They were fairly good sized pieces. Finally the other day I basted the batting to the backing, then added the quilt top. Got my IQ set up to do a pantograft or whatever you call them. Anyway, just tootling along, got 2 rows done and went to advance the quilt but I was seeing the end leader already. What had I done but forgot to roll the backing back to the beginning on the takeup roller so I started my quilt about the last 5 feet of it. So I cut off the beginning of the backing and thought I could stitch it on the quilt machine to the end. Well that didn't work out as planned as I'd have to add it from the underside and try to keep it taut enough so I could stitch a straight line. Not good. So I took the whole mess off the frame. Trimmed a straight line off the big piece of backing, pinned it to the end section and stitched it back together on my cutting table to keep the weight from pulling on me.

Got the whole mess back on the frame, realigned my pattern on IQ and luckily I got it even straighter on the frame than I did before I think. All in all it took more time to fix my goof up than it did to do the actual quilting. Made another mistake but easily fixed with IQ. What a lesson I learned. Now I'm laughting at myself but I surely wouldn't want to have to go thru it again.