Mini Archie’s October Furtle Around The Blogosphere

Furtle (v): to have a rummage or delve into the contents of something

Hello! It’s been a busy month and, for once, the busy hasn’t all been knitting. There has been some knitting, though. I finished the socks I’d started last month:

Yarn is one of the gobstopper range by Easy Knits which I bought in a destash

I knitted a pair for a friend:

Yarn is Purple Nimbus by Made By Penguins and the pattern is the 
soon-to-be released Chestnut Bark Socks by Mrs Moog

And started another pair for a different friend:

Yarn is an alpaca, silk and cashmere mix from Coastal Colours

And I quilted (and quilted and quilted) ET, under the watchful eye of Mini Archie (who soon moved once I pressed the foot pedal!)

But, although it looks fine on the front (just how I hoped, actually), I’m not happy with how the corners look on the back. I quilted three of them using the quilting bar on my walking foot and the third one had nineteen lines rather than eighteen so a tiny misalignment) had added up across the corner. I measured the gaps between the lines on the other two corners and some were spot on and others off (with hindsight, I should have used the quilting bar to quilt lines every 3” and then gone in between rather than quilting every 1.5” as the errors wouldn’t have multiplied quite as much) so I unpicked all three, unpinned the fourth, marked all the 3” and 6” lines using a chalk marker (which kept breaking) and then re pinned and re quilted them. When I turned it over, I saw there were drag marks between the lines, particularly between the longest ones. I unpicked the longest line in three corners and redid them (after polishing my extension table with Mr Sheen to reduce drag) but I’m still not happy. This is the worst corner:

I think that when I re pinned the corners after marking, I didn’t have the back under sufficient tension and now I’m going to have to quilt the dratted things for the third time. After all, what’s another few weeks when you’ve been making the thing since 2016?! 

Let’s just say Mini Archie isn’t going to let me out any time soon:

I will allow you a five minute break but then I wants to see that sharp unpicking Stick
back in your hand. Don’t sigh at I like that, you knows it will be worf it in the end *firm face*

Linking up to the October Furtle 

If you're linking up, please add a link (one per person, please) to your blog post, which could contain: a mosaic of all you've made in the month, something you've made/started/worked on, a goal which you'd like to achieve in the next month (and then in next month's post you can reflect on that goal and set yourself another one - I find this particularly handy if I'm in the midst of a big project and finding the making of hundreds of blocks to be interminable), anything crafty you'd like to share. This isn't just for sewing or quilting, but is for all crafts so if you knit, make lace, make clothes, do anything which could come under the heading of 'craft', then please link up. Please visit the link immediately before and after you and leave an encouraging comment, and more if you can manage it - we all know that comments create joy, so let's spread some around. Also, please treat all the linked posts and their authors with respect - I want this to be an inclusive space for all crafters and crafts and all are welcome. If you're not sure if you're welcome or you belong, you do - this is by no means a closed space and if you want to join, then you are most welcome. If you need help linking up, please leave a comment and I will do my best to help. Please add the Furtling button to your blog post: copy the code below and paste it into your blog post - it should then magically appear when you publish your blog post (I'll do my best to help if you have any problems) and it will help people find the Furtling page with all the details of the link up.

<p style="text-align:center"><a href="https://archiethewonderdog.blogspot.com/p/furtling.html"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXDD7-BYr5nXJtGn7HIFUcDUZfLGBTpazWKP8TCUWdkA6zd2285lbJX4aoMug6QyKDdxtxA-njWnhvf0GugU-An4z5lTFcqmYnae0Gb68FR0ZmydWYETGSa2oF1NeQDMVNwZBnUHTpsD7/s200/textgram_1548790799.png" alt="Archie The Wonder Dog" /></a></p>

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