Oh Lord I have made my fair share of silly mistakes...but the one that tops the cake is when I got my very first sewing machine. I was determined to free motion quilt although I had no idea what free motion quilting was or how I would do it. I remembered seeing a tv show years ago that did something similar to it, telling my Mom, "Oh yeah, isn't it called crazy stitching or something like that?" At the time I was new to my machine and barely knew how to use it....
I made a baby quilt and I free motioned the CRAP out if it...but I failed to drop the feeds or change my foot!!! I just about burned the motor out of that machine with that little quilt, you could smell it smoking as I was jerking the pieces back and forth for a few hours!!! OH my gosh I just had no idea then. Lol*