Musings on Murphy's Laws of Quilting
 

Been working on a quilt with lots of points to match. Why is it that the points are always perfect when you've sewn the block in upside down? One of Murphy's Laws, I guess. What other laws of quilting have you run into?

If you love a fabric, and need more, it is nowhere to be found. If you see a fabric you hate and would never use, you will receive a bolt of it for Christmas.

If it is liquid and within 10 feet of the WIP you will spill it!

If you can't find something, it will turn up as soon as you buy another one...

Anything dropped on the floor will roll to the farthermost location. (or bounce!)

If you put it away....you wont find it? Until much later!
sandy

I agree with ALL the posts but the one that applies to my quilting is Sandygirl's post. I put fabric away and then I CAN'T FIND IT when I NEED IT !!

A NEW rotary blade is strongly attracted to the ruler!

When you need to go to your back-up machine, something will need to be fiddled with before it sews like it should. (I think this is because it's feelings are hurt that you no longer use it every day.)

If you make a UFO list to turn into the Guild for the UFO challenge, immediately after you send it in, you discover another 5 or 6 projects that you forgot about and the list can't be changed. And naturally, those are the ones you want to work on.

Your bobbin thread runs out four inches from when you will be finished sewing with that color. Happens way too often.

Dina

You have 4 rippers, 6 thread snips and goodness knows how many rulers, but none are at hand when you need them. (Or where you thought you last used them)

If I take time off of work specifically to work on quilting projects, it's a guarantee that I will get sick. And when I get sick and try to sew anyway, there's another guarantee - I will cut every piece of fabric too short, and I will sew everything backwards!! I've ruined probably $200 worth of fabric learning that I just can't sew when I'm sick.

I LOVE all of the above. Every single one is absolutely true.

All of my rulers are on one hook. The one I need is never in front.
The minute I sit down, one of the cats wants to go out.
The minute I sit back down after that, I find that I have to go to the bathroom. (or my glasses are in another room)

When you finally find time to work on that quilt your doing ditch work on, every cat in the house finds that quilt irresistible, and no matter how many times you move them, they come back. Until you finally just take machine, quilt and all into another room. One with a door! Lol. I love my kitties, but I hate fighting with them over a quilt.

When you finally find that perfect pattern for that fabric that is too beautiful to cut.... the pattern needs more than you have been saving.... and there is no hope of getting more.

Just when you finish a quilt and you are ready to start that quilt that is entirely of fabrics you have in your stash.... another pattern you just HAVE to make NOW appears ... uses none of the fabrics you were going to be so proud to finally use.

didn't cut fabric for binding and now nothing works...have to go hunting with fabric in my purse.

New blade in the rotary cutter always finds a finger to nick.

LOL! Last week I spent hours looking for one of my patterns...searching high and low and through my piles....then I looked in my pattern drawer for the 2nd time and there it was! Darn poltergiest!

sandy

As soon as you sit down to sew the doorbell rings...or the dog needs out...or the phone rings. I need to learn to sew standing up!

The pincushion, clips or fastners of any kind are 6 inches outside my reach as soon as I have lined up a dart, cornered a binding, or set a ruffle.

No matter how many times I measure twice and cut once, there is always one block to remake for each quilt because of a short piece. I always manage to mess up at least one block in each quilt, usually on the last cutting, or squaring up.

When there's only 1 square left to do and no extra fabric, you spill tea on it...or soda.

Or you lost your reading glasses and find it at the next stitch in, it was in your machine tote bag the whole time!

Quilts attract kitties like magnets attract pins. No matter how stealth I think I'm being when I try to slip into my sewing room, as soon as I close the door they sit outside and whine, while little paws are reaching under the door to try to open it.

When I put something down on my sewing table, it can disappear in a nanosecond. When you know you have a certain item, extra blades, extra needles, etc., they will always show up after you bought new ones. When making a project, and you run out of the border fabric, more fabric will show up after finishing the item and deciding not to put a border on either end. Case in point, this just happened to me this morning, but since I had already finished quilting the item, it will stay that way. My DIL was thrilled with the dresser scarf that I'd made for our DGD, so that was a good thing, she just appreciates what I make for her, and that's why I don't mind making things for her and my DS, or DGD.

LOL! Yep. All that stuff happens in my house too.

When you have spent months (or years) collecting just the right fabrics for the "perfect" quilt you have planned, and finally have it all rounded up, ready to sew, your pattern will have taken a vacation to Abudabi, or somewhere, but if ain't where you put it!

When you have searched and searched for a type of fabric, or theme. Finally get the quilt made then you can find all kinds of great fabrics that would have been better

I don't what to say except for weeks now it seems everything has gone wrong. Can't seem to keep things where I am sure I put them there nor hold them in my hand either. Both my Singers quit sewing right within a week of each other. Might be trying to tell me something who knows.

Have you been sewing in my house? I also want to know where that quilt you put in a safe place disappears to.

hilarious....you guys are too funny!!

Except for the cats, all of these things happen in my house and sometimes I just want to scream. Does that help?

Whenever I am upstairs, what I need is downstairs. Whenever I am downstairs, what I need is upstairs. I have a sewing room but my family knows there are scissors and other items there so they "borrow" them and leave them all around the house.

If you give an item to Goodwill, you'll find a need for it within two weeks! This just happened to me...again!!!

Lots of funnies here! Mine is... when you're working on a boring project nobody calls to invite you out for the day or dinner....BUT.... sure as anything when you're enjoying a project... (I'm trying to finish off my fatcatpatterns penguins)...yup... a walking invitation which I accepted & enjoyed....back to the machine....yikes...now a dinner invitation....which of course I also accepted... the penguins will wait (I hope)... but then tomorrow I hike....etc. etc. It's a good thing I don't live alone or I'm pretty sure I'd never leave my sewing room!