More frame quilting practice

I finished a big practice piece today. I layed the piece out on the floor to take pics and look what happened:

My lovely assistant showed up to help. "Hmmmm..... I think this one works, mom!" And where there's one.....

There's more. Just like cats. Put something on the floor and they all show up to roll around on it. Actually, the cat ignores my quilting stuff. Maybe she's ignoring us? The kids have her job covered, so maybe she's decided to retire from doing the cat thing.

Here's a shot that you can see some of the quilting in.
And another. When I'm doing it on the frame I always feel like it doesn't look so great. Then when I take it off, I like it better. Something else I've learned - my machine works side to side. I really can't stitch top to bottom, so whatever I am 'drawing' with my machine I have to do it sideways - make sense? I can't really do hearts top to bottom, I have to do them side to side. So I've been practicing 'drawing' with a pen and paper side to side. Still having some problems with the machine 'sticking'. Not sure if it's a wheel problem, a track problem, a user problem, or just the way it is. Soon as I have some extra $$$ I'm gonna try replacing the wheels and see if that helps. It's also 'very' hard work! The machine is really heavy.

I think I'm not going to be one of those quilters who can do really cool feathers and really close work. At least not anytime soon and not with this machine. It's really difficult to do anything that requires meeting or tracing a line because I can't see through my foot. I may try to find some kind of see through hopping foot and then work more on that kind of thing. I am also finding that I really like loopdiloops and other things are coming along nicely, too.

And one last shot of 3 smiling faces that just can't resist a quilt on the floor.