Lava Beds

I'm so darned excited to be finished with this year's quilts for Christmas project, I could literally jump for joy!


This finish came with tears and even a few angry words, but #15 is done.

I thought the glow-in-the-dark thread was a pain to work with because it was such a chore to put onto spools so I could use it and because it kept breaking and splitting on Outer Space. The thread may have contributed to the heartache, but I switched to regular thread on Lava Beds after having to rip out the entire first dinosaur track after not being able to do more than three inches without the top thread breaking.


At one point, I was crying, and Lizard suggested I use regular thread so I could get done and do other things for a while.

So I started over on that dinosaur track, and although I could go more than three inches, I was still getting a lot of breakage on the top thread. I went through the machine's list of troubleshooting tips, and the only one I can't immediately do is replace the bobbin casing, which I have to go through Brother to do. And I was still getting breakage on the top thread.

I'm very frustrated that I had to change the original plan of drawing little dinosaurs on each square (because it has taken me MONTHS to work up the courage to try free-motion quilting little dinosaurs!!!) to simpler-to-quilt dinosaur tracks, that I had to use regular thread instead of glow-in-the-dark for the motifs, and that my Viking Husqvarna lasted more than 30 years while this inexpensive temporary replacement Brother machine feels as though it's hardly made it through 30 days!!! It's not giving me much reason to have confidence in investing in a more expensive Brother model with a bigger throat!

I have to stop and recall that just in the few months I've owned it, the Brother Project Runway has seen quite a few miles... I've finished 15 quilts with it!


I'm very grateful to have finished the quilts for my adopted daughter's kids who have been adopted and their siblings in time for Christmas. I will go to bed with a smile tonight. My Christmas is joyful!














Linking up with Busy Hands Quilts, Crazy Mom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.

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