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Welcome aboard!

madamekelly

The good news is that the good days outnumber the bad.

MadQuilter

That's why I don't do housework. It ruins everything. lol

Yeah, some days good old Murphy is having a field day and as you know from his law: What can go wrong will go wrong.

wildyard

When I use a notched spool (and I thought they all were), I take care when I am threading my machine to put the notched end of the spool on the spool holder first so that as the thread unwinds it is flowing away from that end, never ever to get tangled in it as I am sewing away.
Welcome to the board, hope your bad days are few and far between!
Hugs and smilessssss

madamekelly

She has reminded me of something I do that I have never seen mentioned. I could be wrong. Nana taught me to keep an emory board in my sewing tools. When I buy new thread, I run my fingers around both ends, and file off any snags, just like a finger nail. It still holds the thread closed, but won't catch it while sewing. I hope this is helpful.

Nanjun

Poor girl, we all have had days like that. We just have to grin and bear it and correct our mistakes.

Annz

Yea that sounds like one of my days.

Bonbonary

Just another day in the life of a quilter. Hang in there. All is forgotten when you finally end up with a beautiful quilt.

lclang

Yes, I have had several of those days. Have had three of my machines in the shop since Christmas. That's when you go to the kitchen, make a cup of something hot and sweet and sit down and drink it along with some chocolate or a good home made cinnamon roll and ocunt your other blessings. The sewing will wait until you feel better.

jpthequilter

Well, yesterday was one of the worst!
It was a beautiful day!
I planned to finish the second charity quilt top of ist. grade kids hands- so it could go to the longarm.
First, the bathmat was wet before I used it...and yucky too, that was strange...must have a leak from the tub.
I put it in the sink to wash it....and Niagra Falls ! out of the bottom of the sinkstand cabinet, water everywhere! Filled the cabinet floor base with a couple of inches of water and ran out on the floor. You see, former occupants of my rented house had used the sink as a beer cooler, and thinking themselves very clever used the overflow slot as a built in opener, and bent the basin and cracked the enamel, and the whole thing underneath finally broke/leaked!
Ok ! Moped that up and called maintenance...Took a shower, and went into the sewing room. Yik! the corner of the sewing room carpet was soaked! It was not the sink -different leak from the bathtub. Called Maintenance again...
Avoiding the wet carpet, I began sewing on the kids quilt top, (This was before breaksfast...big mistake! Never got any.)
Eventually, and different times the maintenace, the roto-rooter guy and a plumber arrived. Finally, they all got together and got into a big argument about the source of the tub leak... they promised to bring a shop vac to suck up the water in my sewing room, and turn on a fan to dry it. It never arrived or got done...The plumber cut holes in the wall, and welded something...Maintenance got black epoxy spots and dribbles everywhere attempting to repair the sink problem...
Off and on with this commotion I worked at stitching the kids top together.
Then I got a call that one of my friends in her 50s had just died of her lung cancer. I had taught her to quilt and given her my old computer and taught her to use it.
Last year she helped me make 10 kids quilts we donated to St. Jude's Hospital. Although the news was not unexpected, she died in her sleep, which was a blessing...
I was really devastated! She is 700 miles away...which makes it all harder.
I cried and sewed and finally finished the top in the late afternoon.
and I have another friend that I have known for 74 years, and keep in touch with over the computer, who is the same age as me, 81, but we haven't seen each other since we graduated from high school - well, he had a heart attack and is in the hospital in Washington State, and not expected to live much longer....no news today. You have to know we have been friends since the second grade, and still visualize each other as being 17 instead of old and wrinkly. No, we never dated...just kept in touch all these years...