Quilting Grow/Another Broken Foot--post 4

Late last Wednesday, I returned from a two week visit to my daughter who lives in London, England. My 11 year old granddaughter, J, was my travel partner. It was fun to see London and Paris through an 11 year old's eyes! Yes, we squeezed in a few days in Paris. We HAD to go someplace her sister hadn't been yet! My plan is to post about the trip on Sundays. You can read the first post here.

Circle motif for the sashing

Broken foot

I've missed reading a number of blog posts. If I read posts, I likely wasn't able to comment. I haven't linked up in some time. While I'll be linking less since my trip had nothing to do with quilting, I am getting back into the "swing of things! I did photograph some tile that would be a great quilt pattern.

At any rate, the jet lag, while it could have been worse, has tinkered some with my head. Besides wanting to sleep when I should be awake, I'm not feeling creative. Rather than work on projects that require thought, I chose to continue quilting "Grow" in the ditch.

Leaf quilting

I realized I hadn't added that project to my August list; but, it is on the list now! It is goal number 11 which is to make progress quilting it! After a couple of sessions, I had finished the ditch quilting. I wanted to keep the quilting simple; but, Gertie, my inner squirrel, convinced me to quilt a bunch of circles in the sashing and outer borders. 

View of the sashing and border circles

I've spent about 14 hours quilting the circles and completed the sashing. I started quilting the borders and my ruler foot broke. This is the fourth time the foot has broken. Bernina has known of this problem for years. 

Since I was quilting with a group on Zoom, I moved on to quilting the leaves because I could do that with a quarter inch foot. While I quilted, I contemplated how I was going to replace this foot.

My challenge this time is that it wasn't as simple as going to my dealer for a new one as I had done on 3/2017, 11/2017 and 5/2020 because that dealer is no longer a dealer. I e-mailed another dealer. Kudos to this dealer as I received a phone call about two hours after I had sent the e-mail.

Overall view

The jest of the conversation was that there was one ruler foot left in stock and it would be set aside for me at a reduced cost of $68. I said a foot ought to last and this was the fourth time it had broken. I didn't have sales receipts because the dealer just exchanged it. I said Bernina knows it is a design flaw and I shouldn't have to pay anything and neither should you as the dealer!

When I went in to the store to pick up the foot, I left the dates that I had replaced the foot. She was surprised that I had the replacement dates. I had blogged about the foot so the documentation was in post form! She gave me a greater discount. I paid $36 for the replacement. I'm glad it wasn't the full price of $77! 

I do appreciate the service the dealer provided. She said she had contacted the company and maybe I'll get my $36 returned to me. The good news is that while the foot looks the same to me, the design has changed so perhaps it will not break. I'm saving the receipt though in case it does break!

After quilting a few leaves and once I had the new foot, I continued quilting the border. I'd appreciate any suggestions about what motif to put around the leaves. I may continue working on this project for awhile until I get over the jet lag. My issue is that about six in the evening I fade and fade fast. By seven, I can't keep my eyes open so off to bed I go. I wake up about every two to three hours thinking that I've slept the night. By three in the morning, my body is finished with trying to sleep!