Insert grumpy face :{

Here's me...in all my 'non-showering-day' glory....

I don't like it when this weapon tool has to come out!

And why????........

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I can't remember the last time I have had tension issues!!!!!  Hmmm...I wonder if one of the girls was playing with the tension knob---it certainly doesn't seem like something they would do.  

Frustrating, tension is something I don't check for anymore...so I was quilting away....la...la....la..... finding a groove..... beboppin'.....

And then I rolled the quilt.

Gah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At least it appears to be easy to 'rip' out.  **sigh**  Weird.  I'm using my normal Aurifil.  I'm using my normal warm-n-white batting.  I gave the machine a little oiling like always.  Hm.......it appears it may just be this one bobbin's worth. ??????

Back to it.

I'll check back in later with a FINISHED quilt (minus binding).  Then I'll catch y'all up on my day.

Small observation----

do you see the needle pinned in my front, right shoulder area?  That's where I keep my needle handy for tying off seams.

Come ON already !!!((*&@^(*&^

Please, please please, please, please, please..............NO MORE SNOW!!!!!!!!
This was the "lovely" picture we woke up to today.......I am so TIRED of snow!!




Okay, now the NEXT frustration to get off my chest...!!!!!!
I put my "sandwich" together last night and started to quilt. I followed the suggestion of Amanda, and I decided on a simple meander.
*sigh*
Well folks....read on.....an LEARN from my mistake......
An hour and half into quilting, I decided to take the quilt out of the machine to see how equally spaced the meanders were. The top was about half complete, and looking okay. UNTIL............. I looked at the back!!!
My
Heart
Dropped!!!!!!!

Terrible!!!!!!!! My tension must be SO FAR OFF! The back looked terrible-----I can't even describe what it looked it----just.....BAD! No "nice, even" stitches, but rather.....loops coming from the "top thread", and ......GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
I sat for 5 minutes, wondering if there was ANY other option than pulling out the stitches......but..........*sigh*.

So, after a 10 minute break AWAY from the quilt (because I was so MAD!), I grapped the ripper.
The only good news about this situation-----it was rather EASY and QUICK to pull out most of the stitches because they were so loose! BUT STILL......I started "unsewing" at 7:00 pm, and pulled the last stitch at 12:13 am!! Non-stop!

So, here I sit, saturday morning, with the quilt sandwiched directly in front of me, WITHOUT a single stitch of quilting!!!!!!
AND, I have NO INTENTION of figuring out my tension problem right now. I don't have the patience.

So, Angela (soscrappy), I am going to follow your idea of a grid-line form of quilting. I really want to finish it this weekend!!! I don't know exactly if I'll be able to . We are supposed to go to the cabin today; in fact, we should already be on the road, but this weather is delaying us from making a solid decision.

*sigh*