How Often Do You Make Mistakes?
10-11-2013, 03:37 PM
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I make lots of mistakes. That's how the good original ideas develop. I very seldom make a quilt that is exactly to a pattern. I'm a scrappy kind of girl. But I do admit, I don't rip out anything unless it's truly a bad sew job.
10-11-2013, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Neesie
Mistakes? Do you mean like cutting fabric and after it's all cut, discovering there isn't enough? Or maybe using the fabric set aside for binding, for something else? Or do you mean stuff like sewing the right side of one block, to the wrong side of another . . . and ripping it out, only to sew it wrong again? Or are you referring to stuff like looking away, for just a SECOND, while sewing? I'd rather not answer the question . . . .
10-11-2013, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by EllieGirl
Hilarious!! This is all me!! I thought I had enough fabric for the quilt I'm working on. It's supposed to be a jelly roll quilt. Once I had it together it wasn't very big. So I started cutting the pieces of jelly roll to scrap together some border. Low and behold! I found a whole stack of fabric that I had partially cut for the quilt that I had missed!
I've also neglected to count, as I cut strips. Had lots and lots, left over.
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10-11-2013, 07:43 PM
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I was feeling like a big dummy when I spent 3 hours on one block the other night. Funny thing was, it was the third of its kind--the first 2 were easy. Same pattern, fabric, everything . Then I went to my quilting class and the teacher was telling us about a quilt she's doing for the shop. SHE said (I kid you not), "I spent THREE HOURS on one block last night and it wasn't even the first one like it. I had done like six already and couldn't get that next block right to save my life!"
I have learned to keep telling myself, "I'm only human. This is just part of the learning curve." Let's just say that I am a VERY curvy girl. LOL!
I have learned to keep telling myself, "I'm only human. This is just part of the learning curve." Let's just say that I am a VERY curvy girl. LOL!
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