huskyquilter

Ha, that reminds me of my boss. He works in the stock market and always says, "don't try to catch falling knives."

My latest 'learn the hard way' is to always read the specs of what you're buying. I am making my mom a set of 8 placemats and a table runner, and I thought I ordered enough insulbrite (plus some extra, just in case), turns out, it's only 22" wide, so I had enough for the runner and 4 placemats, but had to order more mid project. Still waiting for it to arrive.

My most annoying lesson, start any fmq with a sample sandwich, just in case. I had been going right along for a while and my bobbin ran out. While replacing it, I decided to take a peek at the back, and wouldn't you know, the most gigantic rats nest had somehow formed. Ug, that was painful. I took it off the machine, and pulled out another project. I didn't even want to look at that for a month. Finally finished it though. It came out beautifully, but man what a trainwreck.