In yesterday’s post I told of how I had spent a great deal
of time in March working on Quilts of Valor projects. My Local Community Service also includes
quilting for Project Linus.
I was given four tops to work up and two were giant-sized
compared to the children’s tops that I usually receive – these were more adult
lap-sized. I had a terrible time with the first of
those. It had some kind of fabric for
the borders and a part of the blocks that was not 100% cotton.
I’m not sure if it was silk, poly or a
poly/cotton blend, but I could not work with it at all. It took me three days to get 15 inches of
horizontal quilting (12 inches tall).
That is not much! The thread
broke every 3 to 6 inches and no adjustment I made would fix it – and believe
me, I tried everything. They had given
me a wonky backing that was cut from a wide back and there was not enough there
for me to pull a thread or rip it to find the straight of grain. The combo of the off-kilter grain and the odd
fabric might have been pulling the needle just enough to continuously break the
bobbin thread. But to end this poor long
story, I ripped out the quilting stitches and I’m giving the top back to the
Project Linus group so they can give it to a more experienced quilter.
I was able to get two smaller tops quilted up for them – I don’t
usually make tops for them as my contribution is the quilting. My piecing is usually dedicated to sewing and
quilting for the Sunshine On-line Quilt Guild.
Here are the two Project Linus quilts:
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| Panto is Surf |
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| Panto is Stars 'n Clouds |
I have a third top from Project Linus that is still in
progress. It is a two-color top in a zig
zag design and I’m not so sure I made a wise decision about the quilting panto. We’ll see how it looks when it comes off of
the frame … this one is too far along to get ripped out, so it will stay with
what I picked out. Sometimes I wish I
could stop and practice some fancier quilting, but I guess I do OK with
edge-to-edge pantos and I’m pretty happy to keep cranking out kid’s quilts!
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