General Discussion & Chat: Best/Worse/What did I learn today? Come sit a spell, chat with friends,newcomers always welcome!, 1 by psychw2

psychw2 wrote:
Are the kids on spring break right now?

Marie actually inserted the flange with the borders. Not how I would have done it, but it was not my quilt, not my design. Having NOT done pantographs before, neither of us realized what a mistake that would be!!! the longarm foot would catch and fold over the flange. We finally opted to just stich the flange down so the foot could go back & forth with the problems.

We have scheduled another day on the longarm next month and our goal is to load and quilt at least 4 crib size quilts, so we have more experience loading & threading to reenforce HOW to do it!!! It had been 2 years since Marie had been in and we have only done about 5 quilts on the longarm. THAT is NOT a way to retain information. We\'ll likely do at least 1 panto for the 4 quilts. The quilt shop uses zippers rather than pinning etc to the leaders. I really like that system. Quick baste of the zippers onto your quilt & backing & away you go. It makes it so you can take your quilt OFF & put another one on easily, helpful if it\'s a BIG or complex project, you don\'t have to do it in one day.

I got my neon heart quilt binding on last night. I will do the other one this morning. I will help Marie Sunday after church work on finishing her quilt. All the quilts have to be turned in 3/24.

We\'ve had mostly in the 50s. Frequently overcast or a little misty, not really even rain. Maybe today I can spray some chemicals and get ahead of the weeds.