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LastGrandma 07-03-2011 07:15 PM

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I was in the mood to do something festive and quick today, so I made the Happy 4th wall hanging that was in the F&P QUILTING Celebrations magazine.

It came together really easy and the applique was not difficult. It is 13" x 30" and I thought I would just meander all over and not stitch around the applique.

Well, my Pfaff started acting up right off the bat. It did not want to do the FMQ with the metallic gold thread, so I changed to a different gold thread. Still breaking and shredding, so changed the needle (3 times), cleaned the machine with the vacuum (even removed the feed dog plate and found a wad of junk under there!)...still breaking thread! So changed to a regular cotton thread, fused with the tension, and the foot pressure. But to no avail!

So I just re-threaded every 40-60 stitches and got it done! Not happy with the FMQ, but it is on my door and I will tear out the quilting and do it over another season. Oh -- and I did use my Pfaff to piece later in the day without a problem!!!

Hope your 4th of July is great and safe. Thanks for looking!

My front door this Holiday
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Closeup of Happy 4th!
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alikat110 07-03-2011 07:18 PM

I love it!

slk350 07-03-2011 07:28 PM

Very Nice, Happy 4 th

UglyCook 07-03-2011 07:29 PM

I like that!

quiltinggrandmabeth 07-03-2011 07:40 PM

Very nice!

GreatStarter 07-03-2011 07:41 PM

It looks great on your front door!!!


Kat

kem77 07-03-2011 07:56 PM

That is nice,makes your front door look really good.

Lv2sew2011 07-03-2011 07:58 PM


Originally Posted by LastGrandma
I was in the mood to do something festive and quick today, so I made the Happy 4th wall hanging that was in the F&P QUILTING Celebrations magazine.

It came together really easy and the applique was not difficult. It is 13" x 30" and I thought I would just meander all over and not stitch around the applique.

Well, my Pfaff started acting up right off the bat. It did not want to do the FMQ with the metallic gold thread, so I changed to a different gold thread. Still breaking and shredding, so changed the needle (3 times), cleaned the machine with the vacuum (even removed the feed dog plate and found a wad of junk under there!)...still breaking thread! So changed to a regular cotton thread, fused with the tension, and the foot pressure. But to no avail!

So I just re-threaded every 40-60 stitches and got it done! Not happy with the FMQ, but it is on my door and I will tear out the quilting and do it over another season. Oh -- and I did use my Pfaff to piece later in the day without a problem!!!

Hope your 4th of July is great and safe. Thanks for looking!

Awesome!!

ontheriver 07-03-2011 08:00 PM

Looks great on your door, very festive. I bought the same magazine, it had several quick and easy looking patterns but i have yet to do any of the them.

Divokittysmom 07-03-2011 08:17 PM

Absolutely love it, very festive!


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