Quilting Woes

I saw a quilt I really liked that just used Organic Waves for the quilting, and I wanted to do that with this quilt.  It's one of the beginner designs you first try when starting free motion quilting.  Why is it that sometimes the easiest things turn into the hardest ordeals.  That's what happened with me this time around.  I think first of all that I was just going too fast.  I was impatient and it caused its own set of problems. 

 I only did a couple of rows when my bobbin thread ran out.  That wasn't a big deal, but then I ran into trouble a couple of rows later.  This quilt has a ton of different types of fabric.  There's even 2 squares of stretchy t-shirt fabric.  I was careful with it when piecing the quilt together, but I completely forgot about it when I was quilting.  As I went quickly over it, it began to crazy stretch and when I reached the next fabric the t-shirt fabric was bunched together and it caused me to actually stitch the fabric around my free motion quilt.  It was crazy and funky and took me a little bit to cut carefully through the thread and detach every.  I fixed that, but then within a couple more rows I ran into more trouble.  I got to a thick piece of flannel, and as I crossed between the two fabrics it was slightly puckered.  My free motion foot snagged on it, because it wasn't laying flat, and it caused the needle to hit the free motion foot and snap in half.  I don't know why, but any time my needle breaks it scares me to death and I always give a little yelp.  It left a divot in my new free motion foot, so I was a bit sad about that.

I finally admitted I was trying to quilt way too fast.  I slowed down, and after replacing the needle, I didn't have anymore issues the rest of the way.  Slow and steady really does win the race!  I was cranky by the time I was done, but luckily the quilt looks fine, and now it's ready to be sent in the mail.  It's headed to one of my former middle school students who is now a mother.  Most of those students graduated from college this past year.  I'm feeling old!