Did you make progress on your June goal?
This link up will remain open until June 30 at 11:55 pm EST.
Want to see everyone's goals? Check out the June goal page.
My goal this month was to custom quilt my Linda J. Hahn Beach Bumz quilt. I made a Frankenbatting and picked a backing from my stash early in the month. 
I had a rough plan sketched out for the quilting.
After four hours and 20 minutes of quilting, I thought I was done. I had a few issues during quilting. I hate quilting with my ruler base on this machine. I cannot for the life of me figure out why I can't stitch at angles when it is installed. I needed some ruler work, so I went rogue and used the ruler without the base. It worked, but the lines weren't especially smooth. It's not the safest thing to do either.
Since I was having issues with the rulers, I programmed in a cross hatch in my Intelliquilter for those light blue areas. I didn't realize how tiny/dense it was until the first one had stitched out. I was aiming for 1/2" grid and ended up closer to 1/4". I was not ripping that out, so I just went with it. This was probably not the best choice.
After leaving the quilt hanging over the frame for several hours, the larger un-quilted area in the center and also the green border were really droopy. I'd done a good amount of stitch in the ditch, so I was pretty surprised. 
Another couple hours and I now have this.
I wasn't happy with the big loops I stitched in the outside border and now the density is all over the place. I think I need to rip it out and put something a little more dense in that outer border to help the quilt lay flatter. Maybe I need to add more stitching to the white parts of the star blocks too? And then what about all the spiky white parts? Ugh.
My June goal is technically complete since the entire thing is quilted. I'm just not totally happy with it.
Now it's your turn to share your finish (or your progress if you didn't quite make it to the finish line).
Take a few minutes to visit others, offer encouragement, and make new friends!
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Stories from the Sewing Room June One Monthly Goal Finish Link Up
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