Friday, July 18, 2014

Growth Rings

My first strata style quilt, "Growth Rings", is finished.  Four and a half bobbins later!


I'm very happy with the results and already started on my next strata project. Here's a close up so you can see how I used up so much thread.  


From there, I went on to work on those tubes that will become the Bailey Island Hobo Bag.  Unfortunately, I ran into all sorts of trouble.  All of the tubes have to be zig-zagged together and the thread kept breaking, then I was skipping stitches.  I changed to a denim needle as the pattern recommended, but that didn't help either.  My Babylock is a wonderful machine, but sometimes it does miss stitches when sewing through several thicknesses.  Today I may get out my OLD Singer and see what she can do.


2 comments:

Rayna said...

Nice! Love the movement in this piece, Lori.

NickiJ said...

This is way cool! Very catching, but I bet hard to do. Keep up the great work.