Quiltingboard Forums

Quiltingboard Forums (https://www.quiltingboard.com/)
-   Main (https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1/)
-   -   How Do You Know When To Take A Break (https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1/how-do-you-know-when-take-break-t43219.html)

joyceinoh 04-21-2010 08:28 AM

I never know when to quit. Once I get on a roll I forget all else.
And tearing it apart and then redoing the mistake. I have done that too.

I have used both side of the material in a quilt, it saves buying extra material to get more designs.
Not that I don't have a stash big enuf for all of us. :0

cgroark 04-21-2010 09:28 AM


Originally Posted by MamaBear61
Been there, done that

Ditto.

GrammaNan 04-21-2010 09:29 AM

I feel your pain.

krlowe 04-21-2010 10:11 AM

I wish I could say it was only when I needed a break. Unfortunately that happens to me when I am just getting started. Just don't know where my head is sometimes.

katiebear1 04-21-2010 11:52 AM


Originally Posted by quiltsRfun
You could always say "I meant to do that." :)

I like that!

raptureready 04-21-2010 12:04 PM

I have to admit, I looked at that picture and looked and looked before I saw that the center fabric was turned wrong. I was checking the measurements and everything. So....unless all the blocks are the same how "wrong" can it be. No matter which side the breads buttered on, go ahead, eat both sides.

majormom 04-21-2010 01:17 PM


Originally Posted by thequilterslink
time for a break when you sew your checkerboards with one side wrong side up :), tearing them out and resewing later on.

Oh boy, do I have experience doing that!! I can't believe it when it happens, since I'm trying to be so careful. I tell myself "this quilt would be done if I could only do things right!"

Mary Bird 04-21-2010 01:25 PM

Can't say that I know when to stop, either. I have quilted all night. I have been on quilt retreat and sewed from sunup 'til 2 or 3am, napped, then back to sewing for 5 days straight! I can sleep at home! Only one problem: I have made errors and not noticed them 'til the quilt was quilted & bound and hanging on a store display! Yikes!

colleen53 04-21-2010 03:30 PM

i take a break after every 2 bobbin refills.... can't seem to get up after 1st one !!

mtnmama 04-21-2010 03:45 PM

When I am up in my sewing room and all of a sudden I realize the room is pretty dark and I didn't realize it was getting dark.


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 05:19 AM.