Have you ever had one of those days when everything you touch turns in to a disaster? I loaded a baby quilt on Roscoe, my Gammill long arm machine, so I could quilt it for a customer. My very first quilt given to me by a customer. Yikes! I’ve made quilts for family but I’ve never quilted for anyone outside the family. Needless to say I was a nervous wreck which is probably why I sewed Roscoe to the quilt!!!! Can you believe that? I must have talent to be able to do that!
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Just in case you’re as baffled as I was…the yellow fabric was a flange that she added around her embroidered blocks. Boy was I shocked when I was sewing along and then Roscoe just stopped. It took me a second to figure out I had sewed him right to the quilt! What a goober! Thank goodness I didn’t rip a hole in the quilt!
I did manage to finish the quilt and I had a good laugh too!
Now that doesn’t look like a fun thing to do! That is great that you have a long-arm, I’ll enjoy seeing your quilting!
Quilting by the River
Oh, I’ve done something like that too- on a customer’s quilt ( one case it was BAD ironing) another time I was going from the edge and in and the top piece of fabric went OVER the foot and got caught and a NASTY oil SPILL happened, nothing I tried could get it out, it was a gift for a friend- college student, I tried everything, and then finally finished it, tossed it in the wash AGAIN and it just faded the stain, but it’s still there, and I told her 🙁 it’s not bad, but it was bad to me ! now it just looks like a tiny smudge, luckily she LOVED it!
I’m so glad your customer loved it! I think sometimes we notice all the imperfections because we did the quilting. I’ve never had an oil spill although my machine does like to puddle oil on my table.