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Faintly Artistic 05-02-2018 10:18 AM

I must be getting old!
 
In my new sewing studio, my computer and sewing machine are in an L-shaped configuration. This morning I rolled my chair from my sewing machine to the computer and searched with my foot for the foot pedal to start my computer up...wow. Had to laugh at myself when I realized what I was doing!

bearisgray 05-02-2018 10:20 AM


Originally Posted by Faintly Artistic (Post 8051252)
In my new sewing studio, my computer and sewing machine are in an L-shaped configuration. This morning I rolled my chair from my sewing machine to the computer and searched with my foot for the foot pedal to start my computer up...wow. Had to laugh at myself when I realized what I was doing!

Or looking for the clutch pedal while driving an automatic transmission car - - -

IceLeopard 05-02-2018 12:03 PM

If you have a tablet computer, you know that to enlarge something, you touch 2 fingers to the screen and spread them apart. I caught myself doing that to printed text the other day. Didn't work worth a darn.

mandyrose 05-02-2018 12:11 PM

lol that was a good chuckle glad i'm not alone..........

Chasing Hawk 05-02-2018 12:29 PM

Your not getting old...............you just have a Quilter's brain like the rest of us.

yolajean 05-02-2018 05:57 PM

I love these posts. Nice to know that I'm not the only one!

cashs_mom 05-02-2018 06:42 PM


Originally Posted by bearisgray (Post 8051256)
Or looking for the clutch pedal while driving an automatic transmission car - - -

I do that often! My car and the truck are manual transmission. Since they are the vehicles I drive the most, I'm used to a standard trans. When I drive my 66 mustang or my husband's car which are automatics, I'm always trying to clutch and shift.

I also occasionally try to lower the needle on one of my vintage machines by tapping the foot pedal like I do on the Bernina.

quiltingcandy 05-02-2018 09:49 PM

That's great! When I learned to sew, my mother had a Singer 15-91 in a cabinet and the foot pedal was attached to the cabinet so you push your knee against the lever to make it sew. For years I couldn't figure out why I was always pushing my right leg into the leg of my sewing table. When she gifted the machine to me 30 years later it finally occurred to me.

liking quilting 05-03-2018 02:31 AM

Ha ha! You're in good company here!

Boston1954 05-03-2018 02:56 AM

Join the club! :)

I've been doing stuff like that for several years.


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