{My Goddaughter's Quilt} ~ making ends meet

The last post on my goddaughter's quilt,

I had sewing the first two rows for the first two sections.

But the one row in particular was 

off centre ~ some would say 

not on point.

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So what to do?

I asked my quilting instructor.

Basically I needed to stretch the fabric to be 

in line with each other on the seam

and pin it together (pin like crazy as it were)

when it is all lined up.

Then I had my first experience with my machine

doing something wrong ~ 

it kept bunching up and the fabric was going under the metal plate,

by the metal 'feed dogs' that are under the presser foot.

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(The presser foot is that 'thing' that the needle goes through

and that is clamped down on top of the fabric to keep

it from moving;

feed dogs are the sharp things directly under the 

presser foot on the metal plate

that help move the fabric)...

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I called my Quilting Friend for help! 

She had me to

do three simple things:

1. turn the machine off and back on

2. re-thread the bobbin

3. re-thread the needle

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She quickly explained that a lot of problems can be solved by 

doing these three things. :)

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It worked perfectly again after that ~ both the needle and bobbin

needed that re-threading, I could tell once I looked at them!

I was having a hard time getting the seam

above matched up correctly;

one of my friends was over for dinner

and she told me a trick she learned from her Aunt:

sew a bit of thread in the centre of the seam

to keep it there so that it does 

not move when sewing it...

(as you can see I had it pinned already, which

is usually all it needs)

this little trick did the job! 

Three green thread above shows you where I did this;

I hand sewed this loosely so afterwards

I could just pull out the thread.

Now these two sections are perfectly matched up!