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Have started the quilting on Lucifer's Tears.  I had wanted parts of the more background areas of quilting to be straight lines 1/4" apart.  This is a pattern I've used quite successfully in other pieces but I ran into difficulty keeping the lines an equal distance apart here.  Previously I had done this using my old Pfaff with its wonderful 1/4" foot.  I don't have such a foot for the newer Janome, and didn't figure out the problem until a fair bit of the work had been done.  ( I turned it over and looked at the back.  OMG!  You can see a lot of sins on the very plain coloured back that don't show up on a more varied-coloured front)  The lines are straight, but the distance varies.  Now, I know that I haven't used this pattern in awhile, and I am probably out of practice, but I'm darned if I'm going to take out all of that stitching!  So now I'm trying to make the lines slightly different distances apart.  With my luck they will all turn out to be exactly 1/4" apart.  So far the piece is looking very dull and uninteresting, but I've only been working on the background quilting, which is really of more structural importance than important to the overall design.  I hope it comes to life when the FMQ'g is done.