I made a quilt top and started its scrappy back about 5 years ago and decided 2026 (when I also returned to the Bay Area Modern Quilting group) to finish it.
I felt like a clueless ninny at first, but with some refresher instruction from Katrina and Evelyn, I remembered how to pull up that bobbin thread at the beginning of a row of stitching and snip it at the end of the row.
Holy moly did it take me ever so long to sandwich, a little over 6 hours! At $15 an hour and $1 each for 5 spools and tax, and $38.14 for batting--renting the long arm machine cost me $137.29. Totally worth it as it would have taken me hundreds more hours stitching on my domestic. I guess someone else quilting it with a pantograph would have cost me a couple hundred dollars instead. I'm pleased that the sandwiching is done! I've already sewn binding and pinned it to the quilt, which I'll attach with my walking foot on my Hello Kitty Janome. Yesterday I printed a quilt label to embroider.
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