Getting that 1/4 inch seam-EVERY time.

deemail....I love you and want you for my best friend forever!!!!! You said EVERYTHING I wanted to say!!!! Esp about the young moms......my 28 year old son can sew because that was our quality time together somedays (but I can also throw a mean pop-up and grounder too)

I LOVE your post and agree with every word on all the topics you covered.

1. Cutting mistakes...esp when I had a limited amount of that one color.
2. Not being able to find something I just had a few minutes ago in my sewing room and now can't find for the life of me. Usually it's under something else or folded in a way so it is unrecognizable by me.
3. Snipping a little thread tail on a completed or almost completed quilt and nicking the fabric.

My pet peeve is displaying quilts for sale and then having some jerk gasp for breath and act like the quilt is burning them. I also hate sewing a block and then finding out that I too have run out of bobbin thread.

I guess my pet peeve is BAD instructions!

when blocks fall off my design wall
when I run out of bobbin thread and didn't know
When I get a nick in my cutting blade

My pet peeve is that when someone asks you if you have a hobby or what you do for fun you tell them quilting and they so Oh I work....duh. I work to support my habit and I make time to quilt.

Just think, all that bending over to pick up threads or bits of material helps to keep the waist trimmed. Just yesterday I made a table topper from just a picture of 4 inch squares in two colors coming to tips at the ends. When I made my half squares I should of cut them with extra seam allowance. Then decided to put a 2 inch border on not realizing that I had already cut the backing, lucky I had extra material to re-cut another backing. Then when I was ready to put the binding on discovered by add that 2 inch border made it too long for my table, so had to cut those tips off along with half inch of border. So it took me all day to make a table topper. Considering I had no pattern to go by it could of been worse.
Note: One of the things I learned on making a quilt is to buy extra material with each fabric used in the quilt, as this allows for error in cutting and etc. Learned this the hard way.

People ask for a quilt, thinking that you make quilts and can make them one too. The then tell you what color and when they want it. Never asking about the cost or if you have time to make it for them. Especially when they are related to you. (Not close, maybe three or four generations away)