I know that one...I just finished a table runner for my best friend for Christmas and I swear that I sewed and resewed and resewed when I was completing the bias material for the binding....LOL

Welcome to the wonderful world of sewing. Wait until you assemble a tote bag, top stitch around the top with a decorative stitch and only then find out that you sewed the pockets to the wrong side of the lining - my seam ripper and I spent a LOT of time together that day. Am sure I won't do that again, but am equally sure I'll do something as silly in the future.

whew...nice to know I'm in such good company....just had that experience yesterday....and now finally I'm back, bonding with my sewing machine while I take breaks to read emails.....

One MUST have priorities!!!

Seems we all have our share of quilting woes, but we live to quilt another day. Linda Rae

I did that this morning when I was paper piecing!! grrrrr :x :roll:

Adive fron someone who has done this alot (and will probably do it again), walk away, take a breather, do something else for a few and then go back to it after awhile. Take your time with it and really look at what it is you need to get done. Try to approach it with a smile and you will laugh abvout it later.

Welcome to my world!

As they say, "If it will be a funny story 20 years from now, why wait, start laughing now".

Allways add a couple hours to your quitltng with " Jack the Ripper"

i have days like those !!

If I didn't have to rip out, I would wonder what don't I see. I made 20 flying geese and had to rip out 9 of them. Mostly seam problem, I have a new machine and didn't pay as much attention as I chould have to the seam allowance guide. It was pilot error not the machine.

You're not alone. Tomorrow is always another day.

I have had to do that so-o-o many times!! So, I figure that is just part of quilting!! The learning process?! OH WELL - I just fold it up, put everything away, and wait for another day!!! Then, when I am in a good frame of mind, I pick it back up again. :>) So, you see, you have joined a very large club!!! LOL

That is EXCELLENT advise.

Just as long as you figured out what the problem was, "you got it made". Don't be like me --sew, unsew, sew again then realize I did the same thing. Fortunately, I learned after the first time! :-P

Yeah, I hear ya! I decided to do a Thanksgiving table runner, cut out the strips, had to write down what I was doing because the directions were lumped together in one paragraph and my eyes kept losing their place, got everything cut, went to start on it and somehow I'd cut some incorrectly - now how in the heck did I do that???

I have plenty of material to recut but now I've lost interest and the cat has claimed the pieces as his new bed anyway so may or may not pursue it.