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09-20-2010, 08:55 PM

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Linda B

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Or when the bobbin runs out of thread and you are just a few inches from being finished.

09-20-2010, 08:58 PM

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earthwalker

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Or....your belt breaks...just when you are "on a roll"...you find a spare and guess what...it breaks the very next day...AAAARGGHH!

09-20-2010, 09:07 PM

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Boscobd

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Linda B

Or when the bobbin runs out of thread and you are just a few inches from being finished.

That's not a "dontcha just hate it when", that's a conspiracy!!

09-20-2010, 09:21 PM

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BellaBoo

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when you chain sew long strips together and discover the bottom one was not facing right side to right side.

09-20-2010, 09:22 PM

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Boscobd

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Quote:

Originally Posted by BellaBoo

when you chain sew long strips together and discover the bottom one was not facing right side to right side.

Ooohhh - that's a good one!

09-20-2010, 09:35 PM

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Pickles

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Are you pin your whole queen size sandwiched Quilt to the living room carpet with safty pins, only to have to get on your knees and redo the whole thing!!! :(

09-21-2010, 01:59 AM

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SueDor

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Linda B

Or when the bobbin runs out of thread and you are just a few inches from being finished.

This always happens to me. I wish they would put an alarm in the machine to let you know.

09-21-2010, 02:21 AM

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SuziC

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Originally Posted by Boscobd

Or when you are at Stitch-N-B%$@h at a friend's house working on some hand stitching while sitting around her diningroom table and at the end of the evening you find that you have spent the whole time carefully stitching her tablecloth to the back of your project?! Argh!!!

Stitch-N-B.......I LOVE that term!! I need to start a club like that LOL

09-21-2010, 04:48 AM

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bearisgray

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Pickles

Are you pin your whole queen size sandwiched Quilt to the living room carpet with safty pins, only to have to get on your knees and redo the whole thing!!! :(

Or to turn it over and there is a lovely pleat in the backing

09-21-2010, 05:11 AM

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grammy Dwynn

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How about chain stitching a EASY pattern with 80 block. Going a mile a minute only to find out that you put 40 of them together in the WRONG order . . . :hunf: . . lots of un sewing! :oops: