Reset Day

After pulling off Karen's quilt on Marty, I started frame ironing for the next one up on him; Cindy's Grandmothers Flower Garden. I finished Janice's on Bernie and started frame ironing for the next one on him; Marge's Southwest. I stitched out the rest of the baby quilt that I had to add more back to and started frame ironing for the next one on him; a customer quilt actually because I'm going to use the Pro Stitcher to do some of the blocks. This is Ann's Shop Hop quilt. So here was the studio in the morning...

All three machines are getting backs frame ironed

While working through the frame ironing I trimmed the two quilts off of Bernie and DW. I pulled batting for all three. I got threads ready for the first one I was going to work, because DW's backing was Minky and I didn't have to frame iron it at all. 

Here's what he's wearing...

For a neighbor

BUT, DW is being a goof ball. His Y-axis encoder is acting a little off. As I was quilting along, it started acting more off. I fiddled with his ribbons, checked his wheel, cleaned the rails on the carriage and the frame, yet he was still not right. Jim will be on the phone with Jason tonight to talk through two other things we can adjust to see if we can get it right. Otherwise, this quilt will have to be put onto which ever I finish first on the other two machines and I'll have to free motion something myself in those big blocks.

The backing on Marty was ready first and so got this set onto the frame ready for me to baste in today...

Grandmothers Flower Garden

I already know how I'm going to quilt this one so that saves a little time. This is the quilt I'm going to start with first since I want to wait to talk to Jason on DW's issue. 

The backing on Bernie isn't quite done yet, but this is what will be set on him later today...

Marge's Southwest themed quilt for baby

After fiddling with DW for a spell last night, and working through these backings/tops, I cut the next pattern out for retreat. That didn't take nearly as long as I had anticipated, so I started on the other one I had in mind to take. Remember, I'm going to three retreats. So far I only have four cut out. I'd like to have five or six since a few of them are pretty easy to do.