Do you ever have a jinxed project?
08-20-2011, 04:34 AM
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Originally Posted by mmdquilts
I have had plenty of those projects. Especially paper pieced. I have never got the hang of that. Even had a teacher stand over me and still couldn't do it!
08-20-2011, 04:36 AM
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I'm cross about thinking I had run out of material for a project - only to discover the pattern wasted half of it by cutting down the blocks to a finished size.If I had realised what the finished sizes should have been then I would have had enough...it's languishing under the bed...
08-20-2011, 04:41 AM
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Yes, I say take your time. I found out a couple of weeks ago when I joined one fo the bOM clubs that has lots of paper piecing, that it's easier to do it by hand than by machine. I find it relaxing and can take it with me in the living room where my hubby is watching tv. It really goes much faster for me and more accurate.
08-20-2011, 04:44 AM
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I am working on the Hoopsisters mystery quilt. The week 5 blocks are giving me fits. They are the hardest blocks in the quilt.( Not really that hard) If there is a stupid mistake I can make I have made it. Cutting pieces too short, putting on the wrong fabric. You name it I have done it. I finally got all 8 blocks finished and realized I had reversed 2 fabrics. So now I am remaking all 8 blocks. It was the background fabric so it really shows. GRRRRRR! I have 4 done. I am forcing myself to finish the quilt.
08-20-2011, 04:54 AM
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Originally Posted by meanmom
I am working on the Hoopsisters mystery quilt. The week 5 blocks are giving me fits. They are the hardest blocks in the quilt.( Not really that hard) If there is a stupid mistake I can make I have made it. Cutting pieces too short, putting on the wrong fabric. You name it I have done it. I finally got all 8 blocks finished and realized I had reversed 2 fabrics. So now I am remaking all 8 blocks. It was the background fabric so it really shows. GRRRRRR! I have 4 done. I am forcing myself to finish the quilt.
08-20-2011, 04:59 AM
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Oh yes! I had so much trouble with it. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong - with the fabric, the machine, the thread, you name it. I even put it away for several months and then tried again. Same thing! When finally finished - and it was just a crib quilt, mind you - I stashed it in a drawer. I am afraid to give it away as I don't want to pass on bad vibes. lol
08-20-2011, 04:59 AM
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Really appreciate the laughs this morning! I inherited a UFO, the blocks didn't even lay flat - I finally decided 5 years years of feeling guilty every time I spotted it in with my stash was enough penance (for what I don't know) and out in the trash it went!
08-20-2011, 05:59 AM
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Originally Posted by annesthreads
I decided that I’d like to make a lap quilt for my Mum. I chose a paper-pieced block that looked to be well within my capabilities, but I’m really struggling! Do you ever have a project that just seems to be jinxed? Anything I could do wrong I have: sewing the fabric on the wrong way round, getting the fabric doubled over, cutting off the wrong piece of paper..... at one point the needle even fell out of the sewing machine! Each block has 4 sections: I got 2 sections together and they wouldn’t line up. Three days and I haven’t even completed one block! And there are 30 in the quilt.... If I don’t manage to get the first one completed today, it’s back to the drawing board.
08-20-2011, 06:10 AM
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Originally Posted by RkayD
YES! and it always seems that the ones that I want to be a little more perfect than usual always have the most mistakes. I mean..I can sit and whip one up for no reason and it doesn't have a slipped stitch one. But if I'm making one for someone special...grrr... How does it do that??!
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