luscious loopy love

I am still hand-quilting my luscious quilt

at a rate of about 30 inches 

per episode of Bones.

We watch 5, maybe 6 episodes a week,

so it's fairly slow going.

I'm quilting in no particular order.

I told Tyler the other day,

that one day

I'll just pick it up and discover I have nothing left to quilt :-)

This is probably my favorite block. Love the echinacea!! But then, the smiling kitties make me happy, too...

At which point, I'll move on to FMQ the stars,

which will probably take all of 2 hours

for what I have planned.

I've also started quilting my latest commissioned project.

It's slower going than I had hoped,

but about what I expected.

I'm FMQ (free motion quilting) a loopy pattern with lots of hearts sprinkled in.

It certainly is looking like this quilt will end up nice and crinkly

with a fabulous texture!

I'm a tad envious that it isn't mine...

I've actually had a good bit of trouble with free motioning on my Juki.

Which is frustrating, because, first of all,

my Janome was soooo fabulous with it,

but also

because I did a ton of research before buying the Juki Exceed F600

and everybody loves it for FMQ.

Anyways, after lots of tinkering, 

I've settled on using Aurifil on top

(variegated, if you can believe it)

and Guterman Skala200 (similar to Bottom Line) in the bobbin

and it's working nicely.

I'm on my 6th bobbin (or maybe 7th?) and I'd say I'm about 70% done.

I had a few uninterrupted hours yesterday to sew,
and was hoping to get it finished,
but that
clearly
was a pipe dream
as that 70% is after I'd finished yesterday...

Of course, I would have made more progress if I hadn't,
ever so carefully and lovingly
 - with very tiny stitches -
(because that's how they end up when I do words (?)
quilted the wrong date.

Fortunately, I caught my error right away.
But I felt pretty ding
dang
dong
stupid
(points if you can tell me what movie that line is from :-)

Linking up with scrap loving Lee :-)

love this echinacea too. I probably should buy all of the colors :-) I also love the yellow dots. soo soft. As is the Art Gallery blue...
Who am I kidding? I love everything in this quilt!