Colorwash Patch Quilting

I quilted for a few hours yesterday; here are a couple of pictures of the progress. Dark maroonish/plum-colored thread is hard to see on dark maroonish-plum-colored fabric! 😏😵‍💫😵

'Overlapping-Feather' Quilting

I put 3 or 4 feathers and leaves into the bodies of the birds.

Rolling the quilt forward -- and two more birds have shown up.

Quilting Around Another Bird

 

Quilting Around the First Bird

Colorwash Quilting

A little bit more... and a little bit more... and a little bit more... should eventually mean I get done, right?

A Little Quilting Progress

Quilting The Birds of Colorwash Patch. I rolled the quilt forward a few inches tonight, and whataya know -- the head of a bird showed up on one side, and the wing of another on the other side! I must be making progress. Only a wee bit, as the quilting is fairly intense; but progress, nonetheless!

More Quilting

More quilting on the Birds of Colorwash Patch quilt. I'm glad I chose a contrasting dark sand thread for the bobbin. It's Superior's 60-wt. Bottom Line. I'm using Superior's 40-wt. Omni on top.

Quilting Colorwash Patch

 The stitches with bad tension have been removed from The Birds of Colorwash Patch quilt, and a good deal of the quilting has been put back in place.

Quilting -- and Picking Out Stitches

I am now picking out an entire hour's-worth of stitching, because the bobbin tension was way too tight and looks terrible on the back. All this, because after I refilled the bobbin and put it into the machine, the tail end of the thread got caught on the latch! Aarrgghh. This isn't the first time that has happened. Why can't they make a machine that beeps when the tension is wrong??? Silly machines can do just about everything else.

It takes a long time to take out an hour's-worth of quilting. At least it's not as difficult as when the tension is right. When the bobbin tension is tight, the thread does come out easier. But still... 🥴

This is backbreaking work -- literally. I rubbed some Pain-A-Trate on my back, and went on picking out stitches. To make matters worse, it's dark plum thread on dark plum fabric. And the two layers of batting make this bad chore even harder. Siggghhhh...

I got about half of the bad stitches ripped out, and had to quit, as my back was protesting vociferously. At least I didn't have to pick out all the stitches I did today. The first two pictures are okay. In the second two, almost everything has to come out. The last picture shows all the little stitches with every fifth stitch or so cut with a seam ripper. Next, I pull the pieces of thread out with needle-nosed pliers. They have rubber handles, but my fingers feel like they're on the verge of getting blisters.

Ah, well. I got my VeryFitPro watch app reloaded on my phone; so there's that small triumph, at least. And we did have a scrumptious supper of deer roast, potatoes, carrots, and onions.

Everything is fixable; it's not a calamity. I've had calamities, and this is not that. 🙃😏