Actually I want to scream or swear but I chose to sigh instead, big sighs.
After juggling several sewing projects this week and before I started working on the Freefall QAL blocks, I had time to machine quilt a top which needed to be done by June. So last night, I sewed the backing, ironed it, cut the batting, prepped and ironed the top and then pin basted so I was ready to start machine quilting this morning. Of course, before I started, I wound some bobbins, cleaned the machine, installed the walking foot, adjusted the foot pressure and changed the stitch length. I enjoy machine quilting now since I resolved my problem I was having with my Juki 2010Q Even Feed Foot, you can read about it here:, long story short, using a Janome Walking Foot was the answer. While I was doing my favorite straight line quilting, I noticed that the fabric moved more than usual so I thought maybe my luck with the Janome Walking Foot was ending. After the first bobbin of thread was used and I placed the quilt on the table, I noticed how puckered the quilting looked and felt and how the basting was so out of whack. Because I had to get ready for Church, I left the quilt on the table feeling very disappointed and wondering how this could have happened. As soon as I walked into my bedroom, I knew what I did wrong, I used the Juki Even Foot instead of the Janome Walking Foot. Usually the Juki foot is in a drawer now but I had used it to sew some binding on a quilt, which is the only way I use this foot and left it beside my sewing machine instead of putting it away. It didn't even cross my mind to check to make sure I had the Janome Walking Foot since it stays next to my sewing machine.
Lesson learned, big lesson learned--I put a label on the Juki Even Feed Foot which is something I should have done when I bought the Janome Walking Foot. Also, to make matters worse, I decided to use Aurilfil thread for this quilt and was marveling at how many more rows of quilting I could do with one bobbin; instead of the usual fourteen rows with another thread, I could do twenty-five rows, which is how many rows I have to remove now.
Big sighs, big, big sighs. Instead of having a quilt machine quilted tonight, I will be ripping out quilting instead while watching TV. The quilt will have to wait until after I finish this week's Freefall blocks. It's a good thing I have until June to finish this quilt. Big sighs, big, big sighs. I think this is the Mother of all the Quilting Mistakes I ever made.
