Back again!

Jan 26, 2009 12 Replies

After over three years of not quilting (other than ONE baby quilt), I'm completely ecstatic to be quilting again! Due to tremendous frustration with the quilting system we'd had, and a growing pile of unquilted tops, I'd sworn off making new ones until there was some reasonable chance they'd get quilted. Stash expansion was also halted. Missed you guys, but it was just too hard to hang around here like that.



BUT, during the past several weeks, we've gotten the new system set up and running, two lap quilts quilted, and several more tops ready to go! I'm a happy camper, even if horribly out of practice and feeling like I'm learning all over again.



Let's see. In that time, I graduated from rabbinical school and served a congregation in way-northern New York state for three years, before moving to Indy as a hospital chaplain. We're loving being back in the midwest (we lived in MN for 25 years before rabbinical school in Philadelphia for six years).



Work is intense, so I'm not spending as much time online as a few years ago. It may take a few weeks, but I'd love to catch up a bit and find out what's going on with all of you. In the meantime, it shouldn't be too hard to get the webshots album up to date , so I'll plan on doing that in the next few days.



It's so good to see all the familiar names, and I'm looking forward to meeting the newer ones!


--Heidi



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I'm working on a wedding ring quilt. I found the top at a garage sale for 5$ and kept meaning to do it. Well,now I am. I was really happy to find it at the garage sale. I went to a flea market and got a real buy. A woman had all her stuff in a pile and I happened to see what I thought was an afghan peeking out. It was filthy dirty. I asked her if I could get it and it turned out to be a double bed crochet top for 4$. My husband thought I was crazy because it was so dirty. I brought it home,washed it.....and it is gorgeous. It's in our front room as we speak. My husband couldn't believe it. What a buy! Janie

Morning Heidi!

So glad you've achieved so much while you've been away.

To catch up: you could try Googling for RCTQ archives and then search for the header Roll Call. We have had one in the past two years I'm pretty sure. There were over 200 messages I think - so that should get you back in the swing!

So glad you are happy with your latest move. . In message , heidi writes

Welcome back, Heidi! :) It's great to see you again. Now, would you please explain what you mean about your new quilting system?? I'm completely puzzled -- which is not an unusual condition!

Hi Heidi, and welcome back!

Please share your secret! What is your 'new system?' I have several tops sitting around here begging to get done.

-Irene

Hi Heidi I am Kathy from Illinois, I don't think we have met before.

Yes, please share!!!

Glad to "meet" you!!

amy in CNY

Howdy!

Congratulations on your work and graduation, and welcome back. Shalom.

Ragmop/Sandy

Omigosh! Thanks for the warm welcome back!

I didn't mean to be coy about the new system. We'd had a PC Quilter with MaxThroat (and Baby Lock Quilter's Choice Pro) when we were in Philadelphia. (This really is a "we" thing--not that DH quilts, but he's done most of the work in setting everything up several times now.) That worked well--any problems I could accept as operator error and inexperience. When we got ready to set it up in Plattsburgh (NY) we "upgraded" to MaxThroat II--and *never* got it to work. At that time, although I think it's better now, they'd cut tech support way back and it wasn't available on the weekends, the only times I had to quilt.

When we got to Indy, even though the original Max Throat would've been fine, I think DH had post-traumatic stress disorder from trying so hard to get the other working and couldn't bear to think about it. So. We put the Baby Lock on a Pfaff/Grace Imperial frame with the Grace Sure Stitch (their version of Cruise Control). After practicing a bit on a MagnaDoodle, I tried meandering freehand for the first time, and it wasn't bad at all! And fast!

It's going to take LOTS of practice to do the kinds of designs I was doing with the PC Quilter, but I'm game.

(We still have the PCQuilter and a B-Line frame--and will throw in both Max Throats--if anyone's interested)

--Heidi

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Do you have a picture of these posted anywhere?

-Irene

On Jan 27, 7:55=A0am, IMS wrote: Oh, dear. I thought for sure there was one of the PCQuilter in my webshots, but I don't see it. Is there anything I can tell you about it? I can put a pic of the new system up for sure before the weekend

--Heidi

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