Murphy's Law of Sewing

Fusible interfacings always fuse to the iron.

If you need six matching buttons, you will find five in your button box.

The seam you meant to rip out is invariably the other one.

When you are in a hurry, the needle eye is always too small.

The fabric you forgot to pre-shrink will always shrink the most.

The pattern you wanted to make again will have one key piece missing.

If you drop something out of your sewing basket, it will be your box of pins with the cover off.

Whenever the construction process is going well, the bobbin thread runs out.

The scissors cut easiest past the buttonhole.

The magnitude of the goof is in direct proportion to the cost of the fabric.

Your lost needle will be found by the person walking around barefoot.

Collar points don't match and you've trimmed all the seams.

The iron never scorches the garment until its final pressing.

The steam iron only burps rusty water on light silk fabric.

The sewing machine light usually burns out on Sunday.

Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them.

Gathering threads always break in the middle.

I'm going to copy & paste this into a word doc, frame it and hang it over my machine :)

I can attest to a few of those ;-)

OH so cute, Sarasewing, thanks!

((The seam you meant to rip out is invariably the other one.))

I just did this about 2 minutes ago :lol: :lol: :lol: And it was on your center :shock: :shock:

I agree with the all of the above.

Oh so true. And I might add:

Just when you really get a pace going and are cranking out, the phone will ring with an emergency.

When you rip out a mistake, you do the same mistake again.

one more:
The fabric that perfectly matches the quilt you're working on is the one that you used up two quilts ago.

these are great!

Very funny and sadly...so true! Thanks for sharing.

There's always at least two pieces of that light fabric with the very vague print that has been sewn wrong side up. Happens to me all the time.

I just did a bunch of Boomerang blocks with some white on white, and had to take them out a lot :lol: :lol: :lol: Them suckers would be wrong side up almost everytime :roll:

It's because they jump and roll over on their own. Fabric can be pretty sneaky.

don't you just love it! :P

All too true! I want to add that you won't see the mistake in the big middle until you start sewing on the binding.

Oh Sara...that is great lol AND oh so true

Margie

Yeah, been there done that to all of the above mentioned items

I think the author has been watching me LOL I can't tell you how many of these things has happened to me!

Been there and done that!!!

Love it,Love it. Guilty of most of the above. The one item that falls of my work table the most often--open box of pins

...and the seam you just ripped because the order of sewing was off will be equally off when you (invariably) rotate everything 180 degrees (or 90) and sew it wrong again.

Amazing how many of those trueisms I knew intimately.

All of them are sew true -- I think I've done them all! :lol:

some are oh sew true.

I resemble most of those comments :D

Which is why I purchased a telescoping magnet.

murphy's law gets use in trouble all the time.

Have you been watching me in my sewing room?

:thumbup: :-D :lol:

So glad to hear that I am not the only one whom all this applies too. I am in such good company!

4 times in my last spring quilt!

Too true! :) I'm usually the one to find the pins with my bare feet tho LOL

I think Murphy has been spying on me. :oops:

It is so comforting to know that I am not alone! ;)

Love and it is so true

And when one happens, and you get frustrated or try to hurry, then more pile up quickly. Been there -- done that!

Murphy is probably lurking on this board to figure out our true problems. What's his signin name??

I guess I have experienced most of them. As for the pins that upset, or the lost needle, My DH had a large sq. magnet that is so handy...everything else I had to get straightened out by myself.

Amen to all that. :shock:

You saved my day, gave me a good laugh ! BUT HOW TRUE 111
DARN MURPHY :-D :-D :-D

You found that beautiful fabric a while back and now you are ready to sew. You are about 2 blocks short!