Sunday 17 March 2013

Under Pressure

I have a list as long as my arm of things I have to get done in the next two weeks. These are not things I would like to get done, but must. Family birthday presents, bee blocks, bee quilt top, etc. Meanwhile, my sewing area is littered with half finished projects cluttering up the surfaces.

To try and get things in hand this morning I grabbed the Siblings Together quilt top, that has been basted for ages now, and sat and quilted it with only a stop for breakfast. I went with a double loop sort of pattern. I want the quilt to be soft and squishy, cuddly to wrap round a body, so I didn't want any heavy quilting. Plus I wanted to get it done.


I had completed about 95% of the quilting and my thread spool ran out. I hadn't even noticed it was getting low I was concentrating on the fmq so much. I found some more, checked the bobbin was okay and continued. The thread broke. I sorted that out and finished the quilt. The machine wasn't as happy as it had been though.

When I looked at the back of the quilt where the thread had originally broke there was a lump of lint tangled in the thread. Ooops!

I lifted my foot plate and had a look. Seems I hadn't been in there for a while and usually I manage to stay on top of this. Today's quilting showed me why I shouldn't let things get so fluffed up inside.


The machine has now been defluffed, oiled and is ready for the next project. Now I have to manage to pull fabric and cut the design without dithering away the rest of the afternoon. Not an easy thing for me to accomplish.

Susan

36 comments:

  1. It is nice to see someone with more fluff than I have. Well someones machine with more fluff than mine!

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  2. Wow you've really been busy to build up all that lint. Keep going and you'll have homemade wadding!

    Lovely quilting on your ST quilt.

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  3. Your quilt and quilting are sweet :) Loop ~ D ~ Loop quilting is perfect and gets the task finished quick. I suppose it's time I had a look under my plate too!
    Have a great day cutting and sewing :)

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  4. The quilting is lovely! I have to clear my machine weekly it seems, maybe that means I get to sew a lot.

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  5. Looking fabulous Mrs, even if you need to pay more attnetion to your fluffy undercarriage- I think mine could do with a little bit of de-fluffing too, but i'm planning on sending it in for a service in the next few weeks. :o)

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  6. that's a lot of fluff, but it means you have been a busy bee.

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  7. Hope you've had a good afternoon and not got fluffed up!!

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  8. Epp! That's a lot of fluff misses!

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  9. I've got a ton of bees, etc to do too so I sympathise. I actually really enjoy defluffing the machine, it makes me feel like I've been so productive to make all that lint!

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  10. You'll soon have enough to stuff a pincushion! Well done - now get back to work! And when you find out how to stop dithering - do tell - guilty as charged!

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  11. you could stuff a teddy bear with that lot! I love cleaning my machine - it's so satisfying to hoik out a great wodge of fluff!

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  12. My machine always ends up like that too :) hope you had a peaceful day x

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  13. Mother fluffer! Love the quilting x

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  14. now that is a lot of lint! you could save it and stuff a cushion

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  15. Looks like the perfect way to spend a Sunday to me

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  16. It's never a good thing to get fluffed up inside I find. Love the look of your ST quilt. Don't stress Susan - you'll get everything done I'm sure :)

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  17. Eeewww! I defluffed mine today too, but mine had hardly any fluff compared to that!

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  18. Mother fluffer- that about says it all!!! Lol! Lovely quilting though!

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  19. It's amazing how it builds up, especially FMQ ing. The ST quilt is looking nice though. It will be worth it!

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  20. Ooh I like a good de-fluff!

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  21. Oh Susan! Wow that indeed needed de-fluffing! ;o) Bet your machine is a much happier camper now!

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  22. OMG!!! That picture was just disgusting - reminds me of what was waiting for me in a plastic bag the last time I had my machine serviced (They returned all the fluff they cleaned out). Incredible what lurks down in there, kind of like a husband's belly-button fluff.

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  23. I can relate to that, so many things to do and just not enough time!! (why do birthdays all come at once??) Your ST quilt looks fantastic and at least you found the problem with your machine and that it was an easy fix. Good luck getting things done these next few weeks!

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  24. Hands down you win the fluff challenge!

    Take one project at a time and you'll work through them. (listen to me giving advice..like I ever stay working on one project at a time!)

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  25. To be honest, that fluff looks disgusting!!! And to think it comes from all those lovely fabrics and threads... Another cheerful quilt finished, well done!

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  26. Love your loopy quilting, so gorgeous. And wowsers: that's a lot of fluff!!!!!

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  27. So I'm not the only one with dust bunnies in my machine !! Nice quilt.

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  28. Wow that's alot of fluff! I'm going to be giving my machine some TLC too, i'll see what I get out! :o)

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  29. That was impressive. Think I should go check under my plate - just in case.....

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  30. Isn't it amazing how quickly the fluff builds up! Mind you, there's always loads of fluff in my house!! Jxo

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  31. I hope you've kept it for when you decide to try "Spinning and Weaving"

    You're a good girl to stay On-Task....any hints on how to do that?

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  32. It's crazy how fast the lint builds up! Good luck with your list of to dos :D

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  33. The quilt looks great but I feel that Ange knows more about your undercarriage than any quilter needs to know about another ;o)

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  34. You're quilt's looking great! That little fluff pocket in my machine always scares me a bit, but it's so satisfying to clean it all out and start fresh. So it goes...

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  35. Mother fluffier lol, now that's hilarious. Gee you did have a lot of fluff down there. Good luck with your to do list. I hope you have ticked most of them off by now.

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