It's Time to Quit When...
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 4,016
I have another one. Sewing along chain piecing up a storm. Bobbin thread had run out. All little pieces flutter to floor unseen to mix with each other. Pick them all up,match them together again phone rings and have to help a friend.Come home and sew them again,without the bobbin thread AGAIN. Luckily not as many went through probably because I noticed the full bobbin sitting to the left of me sigh
#25
In high school (a very, very long time ago) my Home Economics teacher told us during sewing class that when things were going well get up and walk away from it for awhile. She said when you try to force it you make mistakes. I've come to realize on several occasions how right she was. Sometimes you just have to walk away for awhile. When I do that and come back I'm usually amazed at how well it goes.
#26
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Warren County, VA
Posts: 26
Oh, boy, I have done some of these too. You have to walk away now and then and just let your brain re-set itself! I usually get out of the house and walk the dog. A little cardio seems to help. But, then again, not at mid nite....
Good luck getting back to it.
Good luck getting back to it.
#29
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Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Illinois
Posts: 32
A little hint. I have a piece of cardboard about 15 inches square, I covered it with flannel. I can lay my pieces on it beside my machine. the pieces stay in place and is easier to keep the right pieces in the right direction.
#30
It happened to me on Monday. I am beginning a scrap quilt using civil war repro fabrics. The four squares are Bear Paws and they are turned in different directions. It literally took me two hours with all the cutting, sewing, pressing, trimming then more sewing...then I noticed I had put them in the wrong directions. But after ripping and resewing I am fine with it and loving how it is coming out.
So I've been there done that too!!
So I've been there done that too!!
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