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"I hate it when I'm cutting my fabric and my back starts to hurt sooo bad. I wish my dining room table was just a bit higher!! I can't cut sitting, I have to stand, and when I'm bent over, my body is at a 90 degree angle! Lol."

I purchased a set of bed risers to put under my dining room table to solve that very problem! What a relief!

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Originally Posted by mary quite contrary

This morning I unsewed something only to realize I had done it right in the first place so I had to resew what I just unsewed.

You, too! I've even done it twice!

My other peeve is when I'm concentrating so hard that I don't hear DH coming down the hall, and I yelp when he says something.

The bobbin thing - when the light goes on I KNOW there's thread left, so I keep sewing, and I usually forget the light went on - - -

I lay down a quilting tool and it takes me forever to find it and I just had it.

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Originally Posted by QuiltinCuzn

I hate it when I'm cutting my fabric and my back starts to hurt sooo bad. I wish my dining room table was just a bit higher!! I can't cut sitting, I have to stand, and when I'm bent over, my body is at a 90 degree angle! Lol.

I found a high "bar-type" table in the clearance section of Nebraska Furniture Mart. It is the perfect height to use as a cutting table. I used to cut on the floor :)

Try putting blocks under the table legs to raise it to the right height so you don't have to bend over & hurt your back. I have mine at 36", and it works for me - I'm 5'6" and I have serious vertabrae problems. My chirpractor told me this is the right height for me. His wife is a quilter, too, so he knew better than to tell me to stop sewing!

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Originally Posted by Mplsgirl

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Originally Posted by eb in calif

not a hate but found a solution to ruler moves
Take a no slip draw liner sheet (at $ store for $1 or lowes for $5) and either lay below the cut line then put ruler on top or spray adhesive a strip to the bottom of your ruler and kiss ruler slip good bye.

Great idea!

2 more ruler slip fixes: Dritz fabric grippers that you stick to the back of your rullers. Ditto the little sandpaper grippers. They really work.

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Originally Posted by mkanderson

Ok Now I hate this!!!! :evil: I have not done THIS before! :lol: And I hope no one else has either! :!: :!: :!:
(leave it to me to do things that no one else even “thinks” about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) :lol: :lol: :roll: :shock:

I was pinning on the scraps for my Crazy Quilt to the batting using the thin, flat headed pins! OK, they lay real straight and flat…one flat head was almost the same color as the material. :roll: :roll: :roll:
Now can you guess what I DID!!??!! :!: :?: :!:

Yep……… bet you guessed right!!!! :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
I sewed right THRU the tip top of the flat pin head! Now you all try to beat that one if you can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mrgreen: :D :lol:
Mary

Umm, I sewed through my thumb once. I hated that. I was more upset about the blood on the fabric than by how much it hurt. Sure felt stupid, especially when I had to explain to the machine repairman.

I have a Brothers and it gives a warning when bobbin is low, but it is suppose to let you do like 20 more stitches ---- NOT. GRRR just when you thought you was done with that section. :oops: :roll: :shock:

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Originally Posted by Harmony

Yeah, the running-out-of-bobbin thing just before you get to the end sure fries my potatoes! Some day I'm going to get a fancy machine where you can SEE the bobbin and you'll know when it's about to run out! Doesn't anyone make a machine that will make a noise when it's near the end??? ("Danger! Danger! You are about to run out of bobbin!")

peachrose, one of my machines, either viking or janome, signals with a liitle flashing bobbin-shaped light on the dashboard. of corse, that only works if you look at it.....

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Originally Posted by QuiltingWithMissy

My quilting pet peeve is when you post a question and a lot of people say well I don't know that but I am sure some one will. I probably will be hated after this. But if you don't know the answer give the people that do a chance to say yes I do know. I have posted questions before and gotten good answers. But before I got to them I gave up reading all the I don't knows.
Now you can hate me. Juju

There's a simple answer: put something in your original post to state that you are only interested in constructive answers. That will keep some well-meaning comments out (but you may alienate some of the sensitive members).

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Originally Posted by kacie

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Originally Posted by mkanderson

Umm, I sewed through my thumb once. I hated that. I was more upset about the blood on the fabric than by how much it hurt. Sure felt stupid, especially when I had to explain to the machine repairman.

i almost peed reading that one. when i was a teenager, i sewed right through my right-hand pointer finger. i unscrewed the needle, got a neighbor to take me to the local emergency room and when the doctor threw the needle away, i took it back because it was my last one and i had to finish what i started. since i was in a hospital anyway, the doctor wanted to have me committed.