a distinct lack of Wednesday WIP.



Well, the tragedy continued... lol After I was done pouting about the kitty incident, I pulled out Love Drops to quilt. You may remember that I need to rip out my original stitching, as I decided that I didn't like the "double" heart effect.

Although I made that quilt top this past spring, which is not that long ago, I've made about 15 quilts since then, so I've learned a (tremendous!) lot since then, including that reallllllllllly closely spaced stitches are not a good idea.    Especially when you're trying to pull them out later. *ahem*

After spending nearly three hours unpicking (and having only ten or so unpicked hyperquilted hearts to show for it - or not show for it, if you know what I mean) I decided that I would incorporate the hyperquilted hearts into my new quilting design and have done with it.

Alas and alack (lol) new problems developed. 




It's a confetti quilt, right?  With oh, roughly 1 billion seams.  And though I had many, many needles on hand, all of them were of the skinny size, not quilting size, and I went through 6 packages of needles and  hours and hours wasted by constant putting in a new needle, re-threading, coming across another seam that was just a little too thick ten minutes later, and *poof!* another broken needle.

The stores were closed so I couldn't buy more, and I had already decided that 30 needles was the limit I would waste on this quilt.  Two thirds of the way through I reached needle number 30, and when it broke, I threw in the towel.

I'm picking up some new needles at lunch today and hope that I will have something substantive to show you tomorrow!

Sheesh!