A Bad Start Leads to Better Things

My morning had a less than auspicious beginning...

I ALWAYS clean my table and carriage tracks and machine wheels before I start to quilt...to make sure there is no lint or loose thread boogers in the tracks or wrapped around a wheel. Usually I do this during the 3 minute machine warm up.

Except today. I got distracted and then forgot.  Guess what?  There was a blob of loose thread wrapped around one of the carriage wheels. :(



So all those wobbles...caused by the thread caught in  the wheel. What took just a couple minutes to do, took almost an hour to pick out...ugh!

But, at least it wasn't micro stitching!  And the other good thing is, it gave me a chance to re-evaluate my thread choice AND to make a better one. So starting over can be a good thing.



Definitely like this color better



And then done with that section



Yep, it all worked out for the best.

And a couple corals that I finished detailing...red



and purple



Not a bad days work after all!