Design Wall Monday

While I'm waiting for the Quiltville mystery to start,

I'm quilting July's UFO from Judy L's Challenge.

 Finally!

My #11 is Grandmother's Choice-Votes For Women Sampler.

I don't know why I was so scared to quilt this. 

I was super excited to get a ruler foot that finally I can use on my machine.

It's a Juki foot but it fits several high shank machines.

Well I did ok for a while but there is a learning curve and I want to get this done.

So I switched back over to my darning foot and got busy.

I sewed and sewed and sewed!

Sunday evening I was done!

Or I thought. 

See the sashing rows above Miss Polly?

I was showing it off and looked down and dang!

I skipped quilting the sashing on 3 rows!

I'll go back in the in the morning and quilt those.

Binding is sewn on so I'll have this finished this week.

Yeah

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I'm pressuring myself to get caught up with the 2018 UFO Challenge.

I'm starting to write this blog post Sunday morning.

I am working on the borders today.

This is the UFO for August.

I was so afraid to start quilting it.

But after a heart to heart with myself,

I decided to go for it!

I wanted to use rulers.

My machine did pretty good for a while.

Then we started to struggle.

It was no fun anymore so I took the ruler foot off and went to free motion.

Now that was fun!

Lots of fun.

Not perfect by any means but neither am I.

And this is my quilt so no big deal.

Of course the seam ripper has to come out to play.

The machine has to be threaded right to get a good stitch.

At least it was an easy take out.

Sunday morning the borders have begun.

Can I do it?

Can I get the binding on it so I can take it to the beach to finish?

Not if I don't get back to it....

To Be Continued. 

It's so fun winning the bobbin chicken game. 🐔

I knew I must be close so when I was ready to turn to the next border,

I checked.

I win!!!

This time... 😀😀

and the next 2 times, I was the looser. 

That black stuff...

That's a Teflon oven liner. 

I need to replace my supreme slider so I tried this.

It works great.

I bought it from Amazon last year and finally tried it out.

I just marked the needle hole and made it larger 

and tape it down with painter's tape.

Quilting is done, binding is sewn on.

Waahoo!!

I was going to get the next UFO out to baste today but
a cute little 6 year old reminded me that I said I would make her a new apron.
So a new apron will be made instead.

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