Phew* These shirts caused me all kinds of trouble! But Hallelujah, at least they are done! If they hadn't been for my darling granddaughters, they would have been tossed onto my UFO pile!

To be honest, the design was not the trouble - it was all on my end of the projects.

Problem #1. The first and smallest shirt, sized 9mths was actually the easiest to hoop (go figure) but the cutter decided it wouldn't - so I had to stop the machine after every jump or color change and cut the thread by hand. (The cutter had just been replace, by the way)

Problem #2 Second shirt and as it turned out, the easiest, sized 3 would not hoop straight to save my life! I finally got it after the 4th try, the cutter worked and the stitch out went flawlessly.

Problem #3 Shirt number 3, sized 6 hooped on the first try, cutter actually did (cut that is) but on the 23rd color change, my machine went psycho on me and decided it needed to calibrate, ripping one side of the shirt out of the hoop before I could hit the stop button!! And you wonder why I babysit the machine! 😣

The second picture is of the shirt that was ripped from the hoop.

I'm actually rather proud that I persevered and all 3 shirts are wearable and with NO (major) PUCKERS!
Thanks for listening to my ranting. And may all have better days stitching than I did!