Whew - I am SEW happy to have completed my "Prairie Poultry" quilt for the Rouge Valley Quilt Show on Oct 15th 2011.
I Luved the block pattern & decided to make a giant Prairie Point rooster for the centre. While the blocks were in pieces I flew off to Calgary to see my niece. I Should have completed the quilt Before going anywhere, but that would have been too easy.
I had figured out I could piece, & machine quilt my Prairie Poultry within 2 wks but had not figured getting busy @ work. I noticed some of the blocks had stretched a bit wider in places & i Knew I should take the blocks apart....but I didn't have the time. I will Always wish I had spent more time re-aligning the blocks....such a newbie mistake for a non-newbie - sigh.
To finalize my quilt drama, I did Not have any extra needles. Thanksgiving long weekend I broke my Last decent needle & had to use a 80/12....which continued to shred the thread & skip stitches. I practiced my cuss words that weekend. I finally changed to a heavier Gutterman thread but ran out of 3 different colors...leaving my quilt top Multi-colored, ha ha ha
I was ELATED to hand the quilt in & to get it the heck out of my sight!
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