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When done quilting you SEE a black block where the WHITE bobbin thread shows??? A black magic marker to the rescue!!!
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Originally Posted by QuiltnLady1
(Post 5484338)
I have a friend who is a famous machine quilter -- she has a quilt that has won ribbons -- it has fabric scraps quilted on the back.
The only pin on the floor of the sewing room is the one that DH found with his foot. After patiently cutting blocks with 4 layers of different fabrics you find that you have one piece folded in half so the pieces are too small -- and of course that is the only fabric you don't have any more of. It is 11PM an you are ready to quilt your white quilt and you realize you have every other thread in the rainbow (including shades of gray and tan) but no white. You are working under the CFL lights and you pull colors to match your focus fabric. You finish the quilt, and take it into a room with natural light and discover that the color in the focus fabric is not medium orange but medium pink. The only seam ripper you can find when you need to rip some real tight stitches is the one with the broken tip. You get ready to go downstairs to quilt when DH asks for help for a minute -- however it takes him an hour to get things ready for you to help him. One more: Your main machine is having problems so you pull out the machine you take to class. Unfortunately, you chain piece a whole strip before you realize that the needle was in the wrong position for a 1/4" seam. |
After days of careful effort, you find out that knowing how to do something is not the same as being able to do it!
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You have a 60% off coupon for a single cut of fabric only to have all the fabric you can use to already be on sale for 30% off so you can't use the coupon. This just happened to me this week, I walked out of the store completely empty handed.
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Originally Posted by Ps 150
(Post 5484622)
I had to laugh with this one. DH always finds my lost pins, with his feet. I never do. And now that our two daughters are sewing, he's been finding their pins, too. Poor guy doesn't stand a chance, lol.
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Originally Posted by judykay
(Post 5485747)
You have a 60% off coupon for a single cut of fabric only to have all the fabric you can use to already be on sale for 30% off so you can't use the coupon. This just happened to me this week, I walked out of the store completely empty handed.
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Originally Posted by cathyvv
(Post 5484675)
After days of careful effort, you find out that knowing how to do something is not the same as being able to do it!
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Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie
(Post 5485824)
Don't do that again. Remember quilt backings among other such fabrics are seldom on sale.
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Ripping out a mistake to discover later it was not a mistake in the first place.
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You want to iron pieces, continue chaining pieces, cut fabric . . . but the cat is napping right where you need to work, and not in the mode to move.
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