I’m sure you’ve noticed that I’ve been totally avoiding working on XENA. I only have 2 more things to try to stop the thread breakage…and if they don’t work, I don’t know what I’m going to do…..so when that happens, when I 'm not sure how something is going to turn out...but I'm afraid it's not going to turn out well...I practice avoidance (just like I do with negative people as I don’t want to be around that kind of stuff!!) Anyway, on Friday afternoon I picked up my first customer quilt for 2024, so I can’t avoid things any longer….unless I’m giving up long armming completely…..so Saturday morning (1/13) (after getting Mexican Chicken Soup into the crockpot) I put on my big girl panties (and as you’ll see at the end of this blog post…they are REALLY big!!!) and got to work.
Well – 3 hours later and nothing was any better :~(. I finally posted on my FB longarm group….tried all of their suggestions….no luck. I guess this quilt is just gonna be a nightmare…hope it’s only this quilt….I gotta get moving….
That was my afternoon….luckily, I had Mexican Chicken Soup to look forward to for dinner, along with popovers:
We also ran a quart of soup down to our neighbors and they really enjoyed it. I knit the night away while watching TV with my honey.
*** Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house
Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.
The cookies I'd nibbled, the eggnog I'd taste
At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.
When I got on the scales there arose such a number!
When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).
I'd remember the marvelous meals I'd prepared;
The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared,
The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese
And the way I'd never said, "No thank you, please."
As I dressed myself in my husband's old shirt
And prepared once again to do battle with dirt---
I said to myself, as only I can
"You can't spend a winter disguised as a man!"
So--away with the last of the sour cream dip,
Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip
Every last bit of food that I like must be banished
'Till all the additional ounces have vanished.
I won't have a cookie--not even a lick.
I'll want only to chew on a long celery stick.
I won't have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,
I'll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.
I'm hungry, I'm lonesome, and life is a bore---
But isn't that what January is for?
Unable to giggle, no longer a riot.
Happy New Year to all and to all a good diet! ***
That poem is wonderful. It makes me want a rum ball. I have a lot of quilts I need to finish .I really pray that Zena gets fixed soon. Could it be that the thread makers changed something? I was Quilting with so fine the other day. Love the look but it kept fraying which I did not expect. I got really good at retreading my machine. Good luck.
Going on a diet is when you eat food that makes you sad!-unkown
Popovers are happiness food! I guess we have to limit happiness occasionally! Oh and the original definition of diet is what you eat!
Habitual Nourishment. Hope everything works out with Xena maybe she’s on her cycle and needs chocolate!
Sorry Xena has been giving you problems. Doesn’t she know we ALL need her?!
(Giggling over the poem)
I had problems with a quilt. It was skipping stitches. I would notice it and therefore thread breakage was curailed a bit, but with a longarm where you are not in control of the movement I could see where that would happen., My fabric was a beautiful tone on tone white in much of the quilt. I changed to a bigger needle (18 instead of a 16) and it helped but when I went to another quilt I had not problems. I think it was that tone on tone that was my nemisis.
What a super poem! LOL
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