Ever Have One of Those Days?

Yep, shoulda stayed in bed yesterday. Between the frigid cold temps and wind, the snow, and the studio mishaps, it was all telling me to something else yesterday.

I was working the very last border on the Judy Niemeyer quilt; doing the last channel at the bottom and then all went to hell...

Broken Needle

Since I've had broken needles before, this wasn't the issue. The unfamiliar grinding noise and the error message I received on the screen was the issue. I popped open the throat plate and found this...

That little metal thing is supposed to be straight

Not only was the little metal thing not straight, but it was hitting the bobbin race. I unscrewed it and straightend it out. Did a little adjusting. Put in a new needle and hand cranked it down to see if it was going to "time" correctly. 

Nope. Not even close. The needle is coming down on top of the bobbin race and not even connecting with the thread loop. I threw the machine completely out of time. Meaning, it has to take a trip down to Lansing. UGH!

And I was dealing with this too...

Lovely straight border

How are you supposed to do a straight channel in this? Well, I was done working on DW so had to strip the quilt already loaded onto Marty and move this quilt over to him so I could finish this thing once and for all...

Moving hour

Ever try to off load and reload a super king-sized quilt before? Jim was out working on his workshop so I didn't want to bother him to assist and therefore just handled it myself. I WAS going to get this quilt done yesterday no matter the problems. 

And, by 6:00, the quilt that was on here was reset and this one was removed. I don't have a pic of the one I'll be working on today on Marty because, well, it was off the frame for most of the afternoon yesterday trying to get the one above completed. 

But, I'll be working on Marty all day today. This customer is concerned about me getting her quilt done for the holidays and I have to focus on it to meet the holiday deadline. And, of course, it's not a small one. Not huge like the last one, but not small either.