apparently my answer is 7.

But wait! There's more!!!

1) It's a 2" seam!!!
2) It's paper piecing!!!!!

So? Does this take the cake or what?

I'm going to go eat something now. I'm blaming it all on low blood sugar. Where is the chocolate???

Funny...at some point, i'd just go with "done"....pretty sure it would be around 3rd or 4th time tho

Wow, I'm impressed you still have paper to sew on. :mrgreen:

I have a personal tolerance level of 4 times.
After that, it gets tossed in the garbage - that'll show it - and I start a new one.

Hope you found some chocolate.

4 times to many.

I generally go until the fabric is so worn I can't trust it to hold together and THEN, on the next seam, it is perfect. Ain't that the way>

I won't sew anything more than 3 times. Either I leave it as part of the design element or replace the fabric. Resewing only weakens the fabric.

2 or 3 times at the very most...

You are far better than me. Don't know that I'd have the paper or fabric left to do more than 3-4. If I'm not pp'ing I don't think I could count!

LOL...4 times for me.

Chocolate always makes ME smarter!!!!!

You have more patience than me, I would have had to walk a way for a while before I could have done it 7 times.

More than 7, I guess.

But just do like I did with a Bow Tuck Bag. I put in the pockets upside down and never even noticed til it was all finished. Too late then. Just called them secret pockets and went on to the next.

I will continue until I get it right...I don't count or I might give up.

I persevered.

My whole purpose was to *practice* new techniques. Paper piecing (I've only done one and it was not a complicated pattern), and a Lone Star. Oh yeah, and a mini. So to practice, I kept doing it until it was right. Thankfully I was using 20lb computer paper or I would NOT have had any paper left to keep piecing!

Good news. I've just finished the 2nd "arm" of the star. The 2nd time around was MUCH quicker. I only ripped one seam once!!

Roflol slapping my knee funny.

Umm, probably about 4 times.

Only 3 because any more than that and the fabric seems to be destroyed. I just start over with new fabric or live with it the way it is.

I have a tolerance level of about 4...after that--especially if I have extra fabric...I trash it!

LOL, just the other day with a wall hanging, I was trying to get the binding on. 4-5 times to get it right! I was wondering if I hit a new world record but if I did, you just beat it!

**PASSING THE AWARD ONTO YOU**

mine's 3 unless it is near the end of putting a block together and the rest of the block looks good. then I'll give it just one more try. if it's still bad, I'll put it aside and start a new block. may or may not go back to the 'troubled' block.

OMgosh was I supposed to count. Which time? :):)

If I go past three, I switch to something else, take a break, or stop to pee and then eat. Chocolate or a strong cup of coffee helps!

I have had more than that with a wonky tension until I corrected the problem- one time I had a small section of thread caught in a place that I didn't see the first time, and it threw my machine off until I gave it a thorough cleaning and found the culprit.

Three times then it goes in time out! Okay - maybe 4 times. But definately time out!

I have sewn a seam with normal piecing 3 times, but paper piecing too many times to count. LOL Luckily it can be pretty forgiving.

15 times.............on this little sucker!?
After PP the 16 blocks I had to remove the paper as it was too bulky and I sewed each seam between two and six times average - only one tread apart and it looked terrible.
The record was 15 times till it was perfect :lol:

I kept counting each time and it felt like hitting the jackpot when it was straigt the second time.
Granny

Yesterday I was joining sections of a 2" border. The side border was already attached so I just needed the top and bottom. I was getting tired but down to my last join. I had to rip it out 4 times before I got it. I didn't have to redo any of the other joins...grrr. The icing on the cake is that I was so excited at the prospect of getting the inner border done that I apparently forgot how to measure. I had carefully measured the middle of the quilt-not once but twice. Used the calculator to determing what needed to be trimmed off. I laid my strip down to trim and merrily trimmed it 4" too short. I haven't checked the other border strip yet. I just figured that was my sign to stop for the day.

Eventually I just say "It's good enough."

Me too.

In ninth grade home ec I sewed a zipper into a skirt 9 times ! really amazing that the worsted wool didn't just shred :o) Now it is three and you are done, of course that can't be true for paper piecing.

Now we need a picture to see the end product.

3 times is my maximum and I then leave it for awhile and come back later for the last and final time.

today, not at all.

Saturday morning at 5, a couple times to many.

I only "unsew" and re-sew the same piece a max. of 3 times. After that it's usually too stretched to ever be right again so I re-cut and start fresh.

8 for me!

I'm not going to answer this question cause I'm totally embarrassed. Being the stubborn person that I am I was determined to get it right, even ended up making a new block completely!

delma

4 times, it was the middle of a pinwheel!!!

YES!! You understand!!! These itty bitty mini's are gorgeous when done right, but "done right" means that if your thread is one thread thickness to the right or left of the line ... bye by gorgeous!!

Now a little explaining. Some of my boo boo's were "sewed not quite on the line" and some were other kinds of errors. Paper piecing being new to me, I sometimes put the piece down the wrong side up, I sometimes sewed along the wrong line, and I sometimes did it RIGHT but THOUGHT it was wrong.

So I wasn't always sewing in the same line on either the paper or the fabric.

And yes I'll post a pic when it is done.

There would'nt be enough chocoloate in the house for me to calm down, after I would have done it seven times.

3 times it's my limit! :oops:

Didn't even count!!! I was beginning to put together my "Warm Wishes" when I discovered my 1/4" foot isn't a true 1/4" foot! Aggghhhh!!! Finally solved the problem by taking advice from friends here and moving my needle a "tad" to the right! I did not know I could adjust the needle position using the stitch width button one tiny click at a time! Works perfect now!

My rule is to only re sew a seam three times, if it isn't perfect by then, I go on.

Enough that I eventually had to scrap the pieces because I finally ripped the cloth with the seam ripper. It was a good thing I had bought yardage instead of fat quarters. froggyintexas