![Nine Bindings to Go](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-nmsQ284/0/f733fa9c/M/IMG_3256-M.jpg)
All 78 Y-seams are done, and all 11 table toppers are quilted. But only two are ready for my first outside-the-office craft fair in what feels now like a thousand years tonight.
![two fancy backs](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-2SGPJPn/0/d9b29618/M/IMG_3257-M.jpg)
The Y-seams and fun backing designs for three of the table toppers kept me too busy to be nervous about tonight.
![Prairie Dreams backing](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-5hGJmg4/0/500eb685/M/IMG_3259-M.jpg)
I even tried fancy stitching for the quilting on one of the autumn table toppers. It took too long and used up too much thread, so the rest are all stitch-in-the-ditch.
![autumn embroidery](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-HvCSxLh/0/d954bcf5/M/IMG_3266-M.jpg)
I thought the binding would go quickly. I even have all the binding cut and ready to sew! But my sixish-year-old $200 domestic machine is screaming that it doesn't like to puncture so many layers on the corners. It's making real rat nests on every single corner. I spent about three hours yesterday picking out the mess, then redoing the corners by hand.
![done](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-n9GrnCv/0/0da4c8d9/M/IMG_3262-M.jpg)
I changed to a denim needle, and I slowed way down and even tried rotating the wheel by hand instead of using the foot pedal on the corners. At first, I thought perhaps the machine's timing is off. When I began tacking down the corners by hand, I realized the thickness is almost like denim.
![my own Spoonflower backing](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-V3qsfQW/0/c76087ca/M/IMG_3265-M.jpg)
I've used this machine to patch denim, to redo jeans seams and even to turn an old, ragged quilt into a jacket. It worked fine until now.
![rainbow topstitching](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-3WWDRnM/0/fc1cef4a/M/IMG_3264-M.jpg)
So maybe it is old. Maybe it does need to be serviced. Perhaps it would be worth having it serviced; I'm sure the $200 domestic sewing machines of 2015 are much more expensive now!
![bound by hand](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-quilting-too/i-JnwrMrx/0/769b114e/M/IMG_3268-M.jpg)
Linking up with Alycia Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.
So sorry about the machine woes!!
ReplyDeletebut those Table Toppers are GORGEOUS!!!!