How Often Do You Make Mistakes?
10-13-2013, 06:54 AM
#82
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Why doesn't it turn out the way you " envisioned it in your mind". You say you put it on your design wall first. So, you must have been satisfied with how it looked. So, what happened between the design wall and the sewing machine.
10-13-2013, 08:14 AM
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I think we all make mistakes. I remember a quilting instructor, who has won major awards. saying that she has used sharpies or paints to cover small mistakes she discovered after she was finished.
It took me several tries to finish a block the other day, due to all the half-square triangles in it (first I didn't cut enough, then started sewing them together and realized I'd sewn the wrong sides of the units together -seam ripper time), but it came out wonderfully after all that. Sometimes you have to step back and take a break, regroup, and redo.
It took me several tries to finish a block the other day, due to all the half-square triangles in it (first I didn't cut enough, then started sewing them together and realized I'd sewn the wrong sides of the units together -seam ripper time), but it came out wonderfully after all that. Sometimes you have to step back and take a break, regroup, and redo.
10-13-2013, 09:00 AM
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Put a rotary cutter in my hand and I'm am going to make a mistake.
No matter how many times I measure twice to cut once I mess up. I just did a quilt top and not one mistake sewing but I'll be darned if my cutting isn't where all the mistakes are. I'm calling my top a wonky triangle top lol.
No matter how many times I measure twice to cut once I mess up. I just did a quilt top and not one mistake sewing but I'll be darned if my cutting isn't where all the mistakes are. I'm calling my top a wonky triangle top lol.
10-13-2013, 09:50 AM
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Originally Posted by EllieGirl
I measure, and measure, I lay the design out on my design wall. Then when I start piecing everything together it doesn't turn out the way I envisioned it in my mind!! Then I'm ripping!
10-13-2013, 12:58 PM
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Me, make mistakes? Never! My quilt tops are always spot on. In fact, I threw my seam ripper away. It was always in the way.
Oh, darn, there's the doorbell again... hang on... Elvis and Johnny Cash are at the door. Probably want to explore my pumpkin patch with the aliens who landed in my back yard this morning.
Oh, darn, there's the doorbell again... hang on... Elvis and Johnny Cash are at the door. Probably want to explore my pumpkin patch with the aliens who landed in my back yard this morning.
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