Well the wall hanging is all quilted and ready for trimming, squaring up, binding and then hand stitching the rod pocket on.
Right, get yourself a coffee, this may take a while...
Now, I never get through a project without some dilemma so I was feeling a little concerned when I started day 2 of my quilting with nary a hiccup in sight, until..(cue suspenseful music)....
There I was, a new day dawned with no housework or errands to do, a fresh cup of herbal tea brewed and some sterling CD choices lined up by the CD player. The sun is shining through the window, curtains gently ruffling in the mild breeze and my first CD starting to play as I sit down at my machine and prepare to quilt. But wait, what's this? A loving glance at my Juki as I don the quilting gloves and I notice that my machine has been threaded completely missing the tension return spring and the hook thingy after that. "No," I mutter, "no, no, oh please no, don't tell me I quilted horrible loopy yucky stitches ALL afternoon yesterday without noticing! Surely someone must have broken into my house overnight solely to muck up my thread path..... surely I didn't quilt for 5 hours yesterday with the machine incorrectly threaded!"
My by now "bugging-out-of-my head" eyes roll somewhat manic-like towards my half
done quilt as with sweaty hands I grab it and examine the stitching...."it's perfect" I whisper to myself in disbelief..."it's just fine"!
I was stunned and hugely relieved to see that the stitching was just fine! So after putting on some "Eurythmics" loudly to celebrate, I made myself a test sandwich, changed my bobbin thread to a contrasting colour and did some sample runs of stitching so I could truly see how it had sewn. Well it was pretty damn near perfect, front and back and I had to truly put my magnifyer goggles on before I could discern that the stitching done on the tester with the incorrect threading had just the teeniest peek/bobble of top thread through onto the back indicating a slightly looser tension. Taking turns pulling each of the threads showed both the bobbin and needle threads firmly anchored.
I concluded that (a) I need to pay more attention when I am threading my machines
(b) I dodged a significant bullet
and (c) I absolutely love my Juki 2010 to the moon and back!