Short Break for some Show Quilting

Today, I get back on my piles of client quilts, many of which are needed by the holidays.  A little glitch with my machine has been tended to so I won't have the same issues I had while quilting on this quilt shown here (the top roller was slipping making it like quilting a hammock - Hail to the glory of duct tape though!!).

This is the quilt I pieced in the spring and early summer.  It is my diversion...my distraction. Sometimes, I just need to mindlessly piece.  But after putting this top together, I have seen the error of my ways, and will probably go back to the less rigidly designed tops, as they have a greater ease to hide mistakes!  When a design is laden with lots of straight lines, it is very challenging to keep them all straight!  Curves are more forgiving, and a little easier to quilt.

 Never the less, I will trudge onward, hoping that this top will yield a good show quilt.  One never knows at this stage!  I see all kinds of issues, but will have to see what is coverable, or fixable or blockable once the quilting is finished.  I'll take another 2 weeks to hopefully almost complete this in December.

It may not be obvious to everyone what is incomplete, but there are some sizable holes of unquilted space.  Many of them.  It took longer than anticipated to get this far because there was a lot of thread changing -- clear Monolon, then a green Glide, and a gold Glide, then the red, then an aqua, REPEAT!  It gets very time-consuming.

The other challenge is that these fabrics, for the most part, are not solids.  They may read that way from 3 feet away, but most have a good bit of printing on them, making the visibility for quilting decreased.  Pretty to look at versus hard to quilt...the connundrum of quilting!

I have a big client quilt loaded today that is now calling, so have a good week!