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...

Yes -

Or when I bump the box of pins and they go flying - and the magnet won't pick them up . . . .

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 really hate when I'm using my Viking Sapphire and the bobbin falls on the floor and rolls behind the cabinet. The metal bobbins for the other machines can be retrieved with the magnet stick... :shock:

I really hate when I'm treadling and I forget to catch the handwheel when I stop and it goes backwards and causes a huge thread barf and I have to stop and get it all out. Of course it must be rethreaded.

How come THEY find it before we do????

oh yes even worse when there is a dog at your feet waiting to catch anything that may fall and then run with it!!!!! she has also been known to take off with my reel of thread when I'm sat on the sofa hand sewing and won't let her come up for a cuddle!! not good ha ha

LOL LOL This happens to me a lot with my butter fingers, and they ALWAYS roll into the furtherest corner where you cant reach it. Then you have to pull out the desk and everything swearing under your breath the whole time and thinking why do I do this to myself?

Im glad Im not the only one :lol: :lol:

Or when your 4 yo gets into your stash and pulls 15 different fq and so lovenly lays them all over your floor. Then you proceed to ask him so nicely to pick it up and he scrunches everyone of them to the point you have to iron them all over again.

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!!!

Or when the bobbin runs out of thread and you are just a few inches from being finished.

Or....your belt breaks...just when you are "on a roll"...you find a spare and guess what...it breaks the very next day...AAAARGGHH!

That's not a "dontcha just hate it when", that's a conspiracy!!

when you chain sew long strips together and discover the bottom one was not facing right side to right side.

Ooohhh - that's a good one!

Are you pin your whole queen size sandwiched Quilt to the living room carpet with safty pins, only to have to get on your knees and redo the whole thing!!! :(

This always happens to me. I wish they would put an alarm in the machine to let you know.

Stitch-N-B.......I LOVE that term!! I need to start a club like that LOL

Or to turn it over and there is a lovely pleat in the backing

How about chain stitching a EASY pattern with 80 block. Going a mile a minute only to find out that you put 40 of them together in the WRONG order . . . :hunf: . . lots of un sewing! :oops:

Whew!!! - I thought I was the only one these things happened to! :lol:

Chocolate for all these problems!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Why do cats have to dive into quilt tops when you are getting them ready???
I don't ever in a million years expect an answer lol :D

how about when the top thread pulls out of the needle as you start to sew, and you realize that is only the 5,843rd time that has happened in your life, and WHEN are you going to remember to check that the needle is at the top of its move before you start sewing!!!

I am now exhausted and have glanced down at the floor about 3 times wondering what I may have dropped. This topic is so very funny 'cause it's so real and many of us can identify with it. :XD:

These are all so true. Thanks for the laugh before work this morning.

Or when you get your patterns laid out perfectly and your cat walks across it rumpling everything and then decides to take a nap right in the middle of it?

or when you only stitch a few inches, and it runs out and you don't realize it until the end of the long line of non-stitching

the phone rings just when you've ALMOST figured out what to do - - -

How about when you are using your embroidery machine and don't notice the thread has wrapped around the wheel and you have lost a whole spool of thread you paid 7 dollars for and it takes you an hour to get it all out of the wheel and your husband keeps wanting you explain how could that happen.

or sewing merrily along and out of bobbin thread!

wish there was some kind of alarm that would go off when the bobbin runs out of thread!

When I am machine quilting do a whole bunch and realize I forgot to put the pressure foot down. A afternoon spent unquilting.

But they DO have one! I turn mine off though because it beeps at me too early. I like to use every last inch...so I typically sew for miles until I finally realize that its gone..:roll:

well i learned a long time ago, if you drop a spool or bobbin, throw down the end! the longer you hold it the more it's going to unwind! as far as that empty bobbin , I just got my treadle going last week and was happy to be in the living room sewing up a storm and my husband said" why are the falling apart when they hit the floor?"

I hate it when...I finally get organized and set to sew, then the phone rings!! Hate It, Hate It, Hate It!

Anytime is a good time for chocolate.

All of these things have happened to me at one point or another!!! My machine has a bobbin empty alert, but I have been known to ignore it and sew forever before I finally realize I've been running on empty! :roll:

i hate that because my puppy will pick it up and take off running with it so i have to untangle it from the legs of the table and chairs in the sewing room

I'm glad you ladies and some gents are getting a kick out of having a chuckle at our own expense. We are all paddling merrily along in one great, big, leaky boat. I've always found when things get annoying or overwhelming that it helps to put them into perspective somehow and have a laugh (or pet that danged cat). We are so fortunate to quilt for fun. Think of the previous generations who had to quilt or die, and for whom the loss of a needle truly could be a tragedy. Gosh, they would sew entire quilts with the thread tails and tangles we clip off and toss.

Or when the puppy picks it up before you can get it and runs away with it, not only unwinding it but slobbering all over it. Add the worry that if she eats thread it could really make her sick. Ugh!