The Dance
Stauffer Avenue is gravel. After many gradings and oil put down for dust control, the surface is quite packed. The winds are wild. A gust of the winds take a full coverage of leaves to the east. A few moments later the gust does a swirl and the same leaves are heading west. There is nothing to slow the dancing leaves down.
The studio has a project in progress, like no other. My goal is to have a two sided 54″ x 54″ lap robe. One side is predominately browns and blacks. The other side is hues of blue. When doing the free motion quilting, I don’t want the black thread of the quilting showing on the blue side and vice versa. I knew I had a spool of mono-filament thread, aka: much, much lighter weight than what is used for fishing. It was very hard to tame. Actually it was very hard to see it as it wanted to free flow off of the spool. I got a bobbin wound with the hope of using it on the blue side. The top thread was black. I did try it out doing straight stitching.
Everything had been pinned with the red-headed safety pins so the amount of shifting was at a minimum. After a successful straight stitching, I went ahead and lowered the feed dogs to give it a try in one of the corners to see how it would react with the quilt batting sandwiched. All went well. The center is quilted. I can see that on the blue side it has been quilted without any hint of the black thread showing as the needle pulled down the black thread to pick up the mono-filament thread.
When I had completed the free motion quilting, I called it a day. The blue side was down and I noticed that there is a 2″ x 10″ length that has a small tuck in it. I could cut the threads to smooth it out but then I would have lengths of thread to fasten down. Nope. It’s the best I could do at the time. It was a lot of shoulder, arm and hand motion. There is about a five inch border around this project. I have not as yet decided on how to finish that portion. Doing free motion is more difficult when the edge of the project doesn’t have tension on it. I’ll think of something.
The chilly temps have brought out Dennis’ warmer duds. I have no doubt the furnace in the patio porch has taken the chill off . . . why not!
Dennis made a run for cigarettes and picked up a prescription for me at Lewis Drug. I was thankful I didn’t have to leave the house today.
It is that time of day when negotiations will take place for supper.
With that I will take my leave. ♥