My sewing machine had to go into the shop for repair and they said it would be a couple weeks. So I figured- that’s fine, now I have no excuse to not get that stack of tops quilted. The one I have loaded is Ben’s largest quilt he’s made. It took me 3 weeks just to load it because I kept having trouble getting the back right so it would fit ( kept doing the math wrong & turning things wrong) Finally loaded it and got busy quilting. Yesterday I had a couple unexpected hours and was sure I could get it finished….
got down to the last turning of the bars and…CRAP! The backing is 4” shorter than the top! I still got it wrong….
now I have to unload it, cut off excess on the sides, add to the bottom, reload and finish quilting, and of course- no sewing machine to do that.
ugh
tomorrow I guess I will unload it, get the sides cut off and at least get it prepared, then load the next one on the stack. I’m going to start making sure I have a ton of excess all the way around to continue. I just can’t believe after spending so much time figuring it out I still did it wrong.