Our most embarrassing/funniest mistakes while quilting/sewing
#62
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Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Thornton, Colorado
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Years ago in my garment sewing days, I sewed the right sleeve in the left arm hole and the left sleeve in the right armhole. After trying it on I realized my mistake, took it all out and turned around and did the same thing again!
Can you believe the third time I started to do it again, but caught myself after a few inches of sewing. Unbelievable!
Can you believe the third time I started to do it again, but caught myself after a few inches of sewing. Unbelievable!
#63
Years ago I made a rather fancy dress for myself. There was a slit up the front and when I walked the sides kept flopping back. So, in all of my wisdom I decided to put weights in the bottom corners of the dress. When we went to the buffet table (after my dress attached itself to the table) I realized that not only were they weights, they were also magnets. I kept pulling my dress away from anything metal all night. I still laugh at myself for that one. You can dress me up but can't take me anywhere.
#64
Actually, had one happen to me today. Yesterday, had gone on a sew day with my guild. We sewed a couple of hours. Put machine into carry case and came home. During the night I woke up and thought I would finish project. Machine would not stitch. I could hear it humming and the wheel was spinning but the needle would not go up and down. Frustrated, I took it apart and cleaned out all the fuzz around bobbin. Put it back together. Nothing. I sat there staring at it for about a minute. Then realized when I had put it into carrying case I had slid the bobbin winding lever over and the clutch was not engaging. Moral: Stay in bed.
#65
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Dover, PA
Posts: 54
the other week my dad asked me to sew on a button
i quickly got to it knowing it was his favorite shirt(he is 85 yrs old)
the next day when he put it on the button i sew was sewn on the inside
not the outside. He thought it was a joke
days later he told me he found my joke funny
after telling me what i did he then told me he wore it
that way and no one said a thing
i quickly fixed it
i quickly got to it knowing it was his favorite shirt(he is 85 yrs old)
the next day when he put it on the button i sew was sewn on the inside
not the outside. He thought it was a joke
days later he told me he found my joke funny
after telling me what i did he then told me he wore it
that way and no one said a thing
i quickly fixed it
#66
On one of my early baby quilts I sewed one panel--a quarter of the entire quilt--of a trip around the world 180 degrees from what it should have been. When I was quilting the quilt, the dominant fabrics were in diamonds as they were supposed to be. But when I started to quilt the non-dominant colors, they made a rectangle, not a diamond pattern!! I finally noticed that one of the four corner blocks was the wrong color. I finished the quilt and called it a geometry puzzle. The people I gave it to loved it so much they hung it on their baby room wall.
#67
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 212
Was making a "Stitch and Slash" wallhanging and when it came time to do the free-motion sewing, I managed to get part of the slashed fabric stitched to my free-motion foot! LOL Also managed to sew some direction sheets to the back of another wallhanging. Lesson to self - DO NOT put anything on the extension table EXCEPT what you are actually sewing! Hubby and I got a good laugh out of that one!
#68
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 1,389
Once had the bright idea of sewing rag quilt blocks together with my zipper foot because I could get SOOOO close to the batting ... well there was also no protection with the needle to the right of the foot and sewed through my finger!!
Was taking a class a convention once when we were trying to hurry through something because we were running out of time. Somehow instead of sewing one handle on one piece and another on the other piece I sewed the handle front to back. Looked sort of like suspenders! Needless to say, I never finished that bag!
Was taking a class a convention once when we were trying to hurry through something because we were running out of time. Somehow instead of sewing one handle on one piece and another on the other piece I sewed the handle front to back. Looked sort of like suspenders! Needless to say, I never finished that bag!
#69
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Posts: 15,639
I trimmed the LAST block for a top to which I had NO fabric left and I was in a hurry. BAD combination. Of course, I cut into other finished blocks that were laying on the cutting mat. Can't remember how I solved that one.
Then I was the only participant in a bag class (to test out a new machine) who had the button holes going the wrong direction.
My biggy is the (still unfinished) Lone Star. Instead of radiating out of the center, mine radiate into the point. I still don't know how I did that.
Then I was the only participant in a bag class (to test out a new machine) who had the button holes going the wrong direction.
My biggy is the (still unfinished) Lone Star. Instead of radiating out of the center, mine radiate into the point. I still don't know how I did that.
#70
Oh.. thank you all for the great laughs!! I don't have embarrassing quilt stories on myself... but there are plenty of embarrassing school teaching moments... so just give me time and I'll embarrass myself with quilting, too... I'll let you know!!
(I needed some laughter today!!! Thank you, quilting friends!!!!!)
(I needed some laughter today!!! Thank you, quilting friends!!!!!)
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