OH everyone that saw it loved it I just hated it. It was a pieced basket quilt with pinks and blues, I had no money to buy fabric and I had a gingham blue and white in my stash so I used that for sashing, the gingham looked to county for the fabric in the baskets. I would never be that stupid again!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't like it to begin with and was using the gingham fabric out of necessity, before that would ever happen again I would rather not make the quilt.

im working on it lol i spent the night with the seam ripper and have to finish today.... i have to quilt it by hand.
i would be embarrassed to pay some1 to quilt my work lol (they see way too many perfect 1s)

I just pulled out a 3/4 finished small quilt that I was stitching in the ditch and didn't like it in the contrast thread. It took 3 hours to pull. As you say, you have plenty of time til Christmas.

I like that - reverse sew - makes it sound like a technique instead of a changed mind or a mistake.

Oh yes, I've done that too... but only because the longarm was acting up. If the quilting isn't to my liking, out it comes. I always hand quilt the "special" quilts, and if that's not up to snuff, I take it out.
If it doesn't do the quilt justice, it shouldn't be there. If I can't take pride in what I've made, I redo it till I can.
And I learned the hard way that if I'm not in the mood to quilt, I shouldn't be doing it as I'll end up reverse sewing it later!

More times than I want to admit.

I learned to piece, applique and quilt by hand. Have 50 years experience or so...doing that..

Now along comes machine work, and I want to learn to be "more productive", but can't get control I get with hand work...so undo, redo.

But as I become more and more disabled, I have to face reality...I won't be productive much longer unless I adapt, and accept limitations on control and points matching, etc.

So should I show you what a few choice friends and I have been doing on Face Book to learn?

And the thoughts in my head are things like, that would be better if she slowed down for more control, or I could do that...and ohhhh I really like that design.

So if you want to do what we are doing for online machine quilting lessons...say the work. I will show you how to get to the first site and then you just follow the "strings of thought" and go with the flow...

yes. the stitches are very hard to remove.

I just unpicked a single line of machine "stitch in the ditch" on a quilt for my grand-daughter. I was in a rush to be done with it to beat a birthday presentation and after just the one line, her quilt screamed "STOP!" I decided this one would be better in the end with Gram`s uneven, but loving stitches. Years from now, those stitches will mean alot more to her than having received the quilt a month sooner. AND I found some variegated thread perfecto mundo for it. The decision was meant to be. Heart motifs, her name embroidered in, little bits of whimsy here and there. I`m a stitcher first and a quilter second so I truly enjoy the extra "work".
I gave her her first "piecing lesson" on this quilt. (She was 9) She and I know which block is HERS, she did very well and nobody else would ever know. I can let her take her first hand quilting stitches on it as well, thus passing on my addiction, I mean a meaningful hobby, to a new generation.

yes,I have the same thing .Last week I FM a quilt for a friend,(took an hour)pulled it all out and hand quilted it(took three days)

I never practiced the first time I looked at some photos of meandering and stippling and said "Okay God lets do this" and I took off. I will say that I am my own worst enemy when it come to critiquing my work but I think I am getting the hang of it now. Maybe in the next 25 or so years I will know what I am doing!

Billy