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Rettie V. Grama 09-22-2010 04:06 AM


Originally Posted by Cheshirecatquilter
Don't you just hate it when you are trying to insert the bobbin in the machine and it flips out of your fingers and rolls to some inaccessible place leaving you holding about 6 yards of unwound thread? Time for chocolate...

Oh, I just love this new subject. As for as the wandering bobbin is concerned, when I wind one, I wind a second one and leave it on the winder. If I loose the one I'm putting in the machine, I go to the second one and if I don't loose it, leave the wandering bobbin until the second one is empty. Saves some on the nerves, the back and the frustration of moving furniture while looking for the little culprit. I've even lost needles and with these steel ones a magnet won't pick them up, but sombody's butt will. LOL

Zephyr 09-22-2010 04:45 AM


Originally Posted by Cheshirecatquilter
Or when you are hand stitching something while sitting on the couch, and all of a sudden you can't find the needle, but you can be darned sure your significant other will find it at the most inopportune time -- and in the worst place?

I lost my needle last night...and we still haven't found it!

msuewhite 09-22-2010 05:06 AM

Or when you are in your easychair, hand-piecing to your heart's content, and you reach for your scissors but can't find them to save your soul. Then, when you carefully lay everything down and get up to search for the scissors they happily fall "off your shelf" where they have been nesting the whole time!!!

Dortha 09-22-2010 05:15 AM

When thred knots around the machine needle...still haven't figured how that happens.

Grandmama Pat 09-22-2010 05:19 AM

Or when you've stitched your project to the clothing you're wearing!

jenna p in ga 09-22-2010 05:25 AM


Originally Posted by Boscobd
Or when you are at Stitch-N-B%$@h at a friend's house working on some hand stitching while sitting around her diningroom table and at the end of the evening you find that you have spent the whole time carefully stitching her tablecloth to the back of your project?! Argh!!!

That is so funny!!!

PurpleBecca 09-22-2010 05:27 AM

OMG!!! All of these things have happened to me!!!!

I actually have a bobbin AWOL as I write - back in Ireland in my workroom!! I dropped it about two weeks ago and I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE!!! The DH will of COURSE find it while I am away and say something smart about me not looking after my stuff!!!!!

When I was a little girl I used to lay out my dressmaking on the landing in our house - upstairs as I didn't have space in my Bedroom.

My Mother would come upstairs and remind me to remove ALL PINS from the carpet as my Father had only one leg and was in the habbit of hopping to the bathoom in the middle of the night....


The nights I would be awoken by a howl of agony as my Father 'found' the missing pin at some ungodly hour!!!!.............

DeniseP 09-22-2010 05:27 AM


Originally Posted by Linda B
Or when the bobbin runs out of thread and you are just a few inches from being finished.

I think they should invent a bobbin that is about three feet around so that I will change the thread when I WANT to.

libertykm 09-22-2010 05:29 AM


Originally Posted by Cheshirecatquilter
Or when you are hand stitching something while sitting on the couch, and all of a sudden you can't find the needle, but you can be darned sure your significant other will find it at the most inopportune time -- and in the worst place?

Ow my gosh....This has got to be my biggest nightmare. I just don't think I could take the screaming from pain I would hear from my husband. This would continue for days because he's such a baby. But I love him anyway.

jenna p in ga 09-22-2010 05:36 AM

Oh, one more...how about when you are deep in thought as you sew and then realize the needle went through your finger tip!!! (still not sure how my finger got under the presser foot)

Mine was not too bad...have seen worse.

Jenna


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