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I can't believe I did this!!
This has been the most frustrating quilt I've ever made and it's all my own fault! First I loaded the quilt on my Tin Lizzie frame and quilted most of it before I dicovered that I had loaded the top going the wrong direction so the backing was way short, the batting too. So I took it off the frame and added 10 inches to the backing. I loaded it back on the frame and rolled the quilt to where I left off, only to discover that I should have added at least 14" inches to the backing! It's still too short! Now I have to do it again. I wonder what (or if) I was thinking!!!! Am I the only one who's ever done this? I've been quilting for many years and never done this before, maybe I'm loosing it.
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I feel your pain. I'm famous for sewing a seam wrong, unsewing it, and sewing it wrong the same way again! Some days the brain takes a vacation without your body.
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Maybe your brain is distracted by sorting out a worry or stress. You're not losing it. You're just human. Good luck with sorting it out.
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Step away from the longarm. Take a walk. Have lunch then take a nap. Then go back and look at it with fresh eyes. Believe me you are not the only one who has done this. Sometimes stepping away for a few minutes really helps.
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You are not alone. My mess up wasn't as painful as yours but I do feel your pain - just to a lesser degree.:) I basted my last quilt with the top/batting on the wrong way also. Thank goodness it was spray basted and that I caught it before I quilted it all! I had only gone around 1 block using stitch in the ditch so it wasn't too difficult to unsew and reposition. I do the same thing as Lisa all the time. It makes me so mad at myself!
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Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug. We all have days like that, you are not alone!
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Originally Posted by Tartan
(Post 4890807)
Some days you're the windshield and some days you're the bug. We all have days like that, you are not alone!
I sure hope tomorrow is a better day ... |
Slow down and take a breath!
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Thank goodness.....I thought it was just me...:)
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My favorite thing to do (it seems, anyway....) is to plan to leave the backing big enough to just fold it over and make the binding. SO what do I do? I cut a hole in it as I'm "trimming" the batting from the finished quilt, ruining forever any hope of a back to front binding....sigh...
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