Happy Valentines Day

A day for love. A day to tell those special someones how much you think of them. A day to do and be wherever it is you love to do or be.

I'm fortunate to be living the dream every day. And today will be spent in the studio overlooking our frozen lake, with the fresh snow on the ground and viewing the beauty surrounding three walls through the windows.

Here's one of the projects on todays list.

This is done so beautifully

This is the appliqué piece I mentioned yesterday. I only have the red feathers yet to do, but all those starts and stops.

I have to get the binding on the Little Buckaroo quilt and maybe the thread will be here for the giant top shown in yesterdays post.

I have the correct color of thread for the bobbin. But it's an Omni thread. Omni (by Superior Threads) is a 40 weight thread and I would be winding bobbins every 20 minutes. Who wants to do that?

The thread I did order is a 60 weight Glide thread (through Kingsmen Supply) and should be here later today. But in the meantime, I've got plenty to do until it arrives.

Three More Nutcrackers

Here are the guys who were quilted last night after I got home from work.

Standing at attention

I feel like these guys are judging me while I'm quilting them.

And news flash, I think I'm changing most of my So Fine! thread out to Glide by Fil-tec.

Heres why:

It needles better. There is little (if any really) lint in my bobbin case. It's just a bit finer weight then the So Fine! (So Fine! is a 50 wt. where the Glide is a 60 wt.) DW will needle it through on a size 16 needle and doesn't need an 18 like the So Fine! Because it's a finer weight, you can fit even more on a bobbin. And, quite frankly, I have so many less thread breaks when traveling to the left on the machine with the Glide. Oh, and it's about half as much for about 1,000 yards more per cone.

I think that's plenty of reasons to switch. I would have to say the downside to switching is the Glide is a trilobal poly and gives a sheen, where the So Fine! is a matte finish. Some of these quilts don't need a sheen in them, so I'm not going to be able to switch entirely, but I'm leading myself in that direction for the bulk of my quilting here on in I think.

We'll see when I get my first shipment at weeks end from North Dakota (which, when I talked to them today, were wonderful and very helpful in their service). Jennifer was very prompt when I called and they may have a new permanent customer if everything works out. Oh, I ordered the thread from Kings Men Quilting Supply, in case you were wondering.