I was in the middle of free motion quilting a quilt for my younger daughter when the whole thing went wonky. I knew that it was a tension problem. I even knew that the tension problem is with my top thread. Usually when I see this problem, the way to fix it is to rethread the machine, making sure that the pressure foot is up, so that the tension disks are not engaged.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, none of that worked, so into the repair shop went my machine. Instead of letting it keep me down, I thought I’d take the opportunity to try piecing a quilt by hand.<\/p>\n
I had bought the Craftys 2015 block of the month quilt kit a couple of months ago. Besides being an incredibly beautiful quilt, the directions for the quilt include both templates and hand piecing. I had never done any hand piecing before, and I thought it would be fun to go retro in my quilt making. So far it’s been fun.<\/p>\n
It does take longer than machine piecing, but not nearly as much longer as I thought it would be. It’s also quite relaxing putting all the little pieces together. The one thing that I really love about it is that I have the ability to take it with me wherever I go. That means that I can take it when I babysit for my gorgeous grandson, which I do every Monday.<\/p>\n
So far, I’m very pleased with the results. Once I get my machine back. I’ll work on a couple of quilts at a time – a machine one and a hand one. I enjoy both techniques and it will be fun to keep my feet in both a more modern and old fashion quilt world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I was in the middle of free motion quilting a quilt for my younger daughter when the whole thing went wonky. I knew that it was a tension problem. I even knew that the tension problem is with my top thread. Usually when I see this problem, the way to fix it is to rethread … <\/p>\n