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MaggieLou 02-08-2011 10:08 AM

Murphy's Law of Sewing

Fusible interfacings always fuse to the iron.

If you need six matching buttons, you will find five in your button box.

The seam you meant to rip out is invariably the other one.

When you are in a hurry, the needle eye is always too small.

The fabric you forgot to pre-shrink will always shrink the most.

The pattern you wanted to make again will have one key piece missing.

If you drop something out of your sewing basket, it will be your box of pins with the cover off.

Whenever the construction process is going well, the bobbin thread runs out.

The scissors cut easiest past the buttonhole.

The magnitude of the goof is in direct proportion to the cost of the fabric.

Your lost needle will be found by the person walking around barefoot.

Collar points don't match and you've trimmed all the seams.

The iron never scorches the garment until its final pressing.

The steam iron only burps rusty water on light silk fabric.

The sewing machine light usually burns out on Sunday.

Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them.

Gathering threads always break in the middle.

Just when you really get a pace going and are cranking out, the phone will ring with an emergency.

When you rip out a mistake, you do the same mistake again.

The fabric that perfectly matches the quilt you're working on is the one that you used up two quilts ago.

There's always at least two pieces of that light fabric with the very vague print that has been sewn wrong side up.

SeamsLikeIt 02-08-2011 10:18 AM

ROFL!!!!!! This is just toooo funny! Thanks for sharing, we've all been there at one point or another. :thumbup:

dellareya 02-08-2011 10:19 AM

Thank you for sharing these. I'm printing them up and posting them in my sewing area. The only thing that makes me feel better about doing any of these, is the fact that I'm not alone with my problem.

noveltyjunkie 02-08-2011 10:21 AM

Uh HUH!

bearisgray 02-08-2011 10:22 AM

been there - done that - will probably do/happen again :?

erstan947 02-08-2011 10:22 AM

YEP:)

Janie Q 02-08-2011 10:22 AM

Very funny! Very true!

LoisN 02-08-2011 10:26 AM

Have you been watching me?

sewwhat85 02-08-2011 10:27 AM

that is so funny

quilter on the eastern edge 02-08-2011 10:28 AM

The bobbin thread always runs out with about 4 inches of the seam left to sew. :cry:


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