Friendship Braid Prayer Shawl |
I took little bits of time - while waiting on hold, or while puzzling out some great bookkeeping mystery - to sketch out what I was trying to do.
I've never done feathers before and really wanted something special for the large center square on the braided shawl. When I finally felt like I had the motions down, as time allowed I started to practice on the machine.
Practice #1 |
Practice #2 |
Practice #3 |
Practice #4 |
I put Sis's present aside for now. I guess I wasn't ready for this challenge just yet.
Because I had a number of white bobbins already wound up, I picked up the Christmas stockings I'm making for deploying soldiers as part of a group over at Missouri Star and started quilting on the outside pieces. Basically doodling around. Because the stockings are going to be fully lined, I quilted on the top and batting only.
On set is swirls and loops |
The other set is outlined and loops |
As I was quilting the second set with the outlined stars the machine was jamming and breaking thread. I used every trick in the book I knew to power through the last half of the last one.
My trusty Elna is now at the machine hospital for diagnostics. I sure hope it can be fixed!
Linking to Leah Day's FMQ Project