I was ready to put the scrappy basket weave quilt on the quilt frame so I could start hand quilting. YAY!
I got it onto one of the cross bars and started rolling the sandwich. When I finished with the top bar, I inserted the bottom bar into the leader cloth and started rolling it back so it would be even.
Just as I was about to lodge it into the holding brackets, I heard a crack!!! OH NO! What was that sound? I looked at the top bar and it had rolled off the frame. When it fell, the middle bar cracked in half!
Oh my goodness what a setback! I was so disheartened. I almost screamed, cried and jumped up and down!
Now I had to undo all the rolling from the top bar. I rolled the quilt onto the bottom bar, took it off the top bar and left it on the table. I immediately went to my cabin and called the company that makes my quilting frame. I had bought this quilting frame used from a private party and had only used it once for the pink baby quilt that I wrote about on this blog.
Well as I scrolled through the company's website I found a manual for my frame model and found out that it didn't have the middle extension steel brackets to give the bars more stability when a large quilt is on the frame. That's why the bar had cracked. Not enough support!
Well needless to say, I ordered the extension kit (new bars) and the installation kit for the extension kit. It includes the steel brackets.
So now I am waiting for this order to arrive sometime next week. Can't start hand quilting the basket weave quilt until that order gets here. I hope that I will still make my deadline for my daughter's birthday . . . 3 months!
