All of a sudden I don't feel so bad. Thanks everyone. :lol:

I still think I won the dumb dumb prize so far.

Oh, I have another good one.

On my last quilt, I measured and remeasured my qty of fabric for my border, calculating the widest possible border using all my fabric. I came up with a 3" border, not very happy, but it would have to do. After cutting everything, I had more than half my fabric left. I could have made my border much wider than I did, I don't know what I did wrong :(

The worst thing I did was sew a block together wrong. Not too bad you might think. Just take it apart and resew it, right? Well it's a little more difficult, when you don't notice until the quilt is already quilted and ready for the binding. My mom's quilt still has the error in it to this day. She's never said anything. So I don't think she's even noticed. But it's pretty obvious, if you look at it. :lol: :lol: :lol:

You reminded me: so I took the blocks apart - but it was the wrong blocks. When I finally took the right set of bad blocks apart, I sewed them back in exactly the same WRONG way. DUH!

How abt the time (before we put bindings on quilts) I put right fabric sides together with batting, sewed all around, left opening to turn inside out and when I turned it --- the BATTING ENDED UP ON THE OUTSIDE.....
I HATE RIPPING..... just today I was workiing on hand applique and corner was flipped under and YES! I DID! sewing thru it... Did I mention - I HATE RIPPING..... grrrrr.....

You certainly won the MOST EXPENSIVE dumb price!!! :mrgreen: How DID you get it fixed?

Once i was sewing along and forgot i left a needle threader on the sewing machine bed. They have a large metal tab on them next thing i knew i had sewn it to the back of what i was working on i even saved it enjoy the pic lol.

I can't believe they used to come with instructions.

Yes lol but it didnt stop me from sewing through it lol

I made an emergency run to Round Robbin (this was around 8 pm) and told them what happened. (which was VERY embarrassing) They were very nice and refrained from making any remarks.

It started to gum up within minutes - I was wondering why it wasn't running more freely - and then I looked at the bottle I had been using - -

They did get it fixed - I think it cost around $200 way back then -

My old machine has the arm that sticks out quite a ways in the front of the head, (where you poke your thread through the hole)....and as my vision is soo messed up at times I was having to lean in close to see what I was doing and went pedal to the metal....not only did that arm come down and catch my forehead, as it came down it caught my glasses putting a good scratch on them and on the next up sweep down it caught a chunk of my hair and about tore it out... LMBO I took an emory board to the rough spot on the arm so that my hair was safe and went looking for a brand new machine that night!!! The bruise was on my forehead for a week :roll: :lol: :lol: :roll:
I have done most all of what is listed over the years except for using fray check and sewing through a finger/thumb....

I think the use of fray check is still to date, the winner :roll: :lol: :roll:

did you know that one could actually get one's t*** caught in a wringer?

We had an old Maytag wringer washing machine (gray, square tubbed) and I got too close while putting the clothes through.

Fortunately, there is a reverse on the wringer.

I can't top Bearisgray for which I'm thankful.

I was using my automatic threader when I pushed the button to put the needle in the down position. That one cost me $100.

Oh my...I feel sooo much better! I've done all of the things listed..well, thankfully except for the fray check thing and wringer washer thing...but the last piece of clothing I tried to sew years ago was to cut off the sleeves of one of my DH's dress shirts to make him an everyday shirt (he wore out the elbows first)...I sewed the sleeve together like it was short sheeted on a bed. I quit sewing...put the machine away and didn't touch it for over 20 yrs. I still won't sew any clothing.

Often

Hate when that happens

It's even worse when you figure it out after the piece is finished

Thankfully, my children are more visually astute than I am and they can usually spot the mistake.

I think you win the prize for the washer thing though. My mom had an old one in the basement and I was always afraid to get too close to it. Thankfully I never caught anything more delicate than hair in it. My dad laughed enough when I did that -- he would have been rolling on the floor if I had caught what you did.

Well anyone remember one of my very first posts; i was doing some rotary cutting and i cut my knee really bad, it was about an inch deep and when i look at it know i m thinking OMG i m glad mum s is a nurse,lol

This such a funny thread. I have done almost all these things. Now I feel better. I'm not alone.

I've also fumbled my iron and it melted the carpet where it landed.

(Wonder why I'm supposed to keep my sewing stuff downstairs?)

Of course, there are the dropped needles and pins - that sometimes get stepped on.

OK, most of us have cut fingers or in my case, given myself a manicure with a rotary cutter, but how the heck did you cut your KNEE???

When my grandkids were over this past week, they were in my sewing room where my computer is. I've told them (repeatedly) NOT to take their shoes off because of dropped pins, etc. The grandson found a whole bunch of pins in his sock feet while jumping up and down.....yeah, I had to laugh :lol: :lol:

Yup, that's me! I'm directionally challenged and have to double- and triple-check my piecing. If there's a way to get it backward or upside down, I manage to figure that out.

Oh, i have something similar to a previous poster.

My old machine has that thingy that moves up and down at the front of the machine with the thread - I don't know what it's called. take up lever?
Anyway, when it goes up, it sticks out past the top and front of the machine, and more than once I've been sewing really intense and gotten too close, and smacked my forehead with the lever. NOT PLEASANT!!! It's kind of hard to explain the bruising. Plus, the machine doesn't stop sewing as soon as you release the pedal, so I wound up with a few bruises right next to eachother. :roll: :oops:

Absolutely LMAO!! So that is where THAT saying came from. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I have to tell you --- I'm in my sewing room with computer reading this thread, laughing my head off.....DH came in and asked "what are you reading"....I told him......he has NO appreciation....he just grunted and left...ROLMAO! :mrgreen:

I got my arms caught in the wringer, was up to my elbows before we got it stopped. Was too young to get anything "else" caught in it.....

OK, today I may have done the "silliest" thing ever. I felt like a MORON. I had my small quilt for the doll quilt swap all done and packed, ready to go. My first ever totally completed quilt, and I'm new to the board, so I'm hoping to make at least a semi-good impression, right? Due to work, I couldn't get it to the post office until Saturday. I waited until an hour before the post office closed at noon and then got online to retrieve the address for the person I'm exchanging quilts with. Imagine my horror -- and embarassement -- and frustration -- when I realized I had put the wrong name on the label of the person receiving the quilt! :oops: :cry: So I had to very quickly unpack the quilt, make a new fast label to cover up the carefully appliqued label I had originally made, and get it attached. I cheated and used Steam a Seam 2 tape for fixing hems to adhere the label. I got to the post office 10 minutes before it closed. And I'll admit that the whole time I was thinking of this thread about doing silly things, wondering if I should let you all in on the secret. Shhhh....no one tell kwhite! :roll:

Errrrm i thought i needed a good shave on my hairy legs ROFL

No i was just to tired and should have stopped cutting but i sat down and instead of cutting from me i cut towards me
STUPID ME i know :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

I have to ask this because I cant figure it out and I am sure once you tell me what this stands for I am going to feel pretty silly, but here goes....what dose "hst" stand for? I know its something simple, I can feel it...lol :oops: :P :roll:

The silliest thing I have ever done while sewing is sew something not just the wrong side, but also upside down....I took it all out and started over.....a few days later... :lol: :lol:
tammy g

I signed up for my very first quilt class ever.
I was so excited when I arrived at the class.
Unfortunately I discovered that I had left my sewing machine sitting patiently at home.
Duh.

HST - half square triangles - it really doesn't make sense to me either, but it's two triangles sewn together that make a square - it just dawned on me - one of those triangles is half a square - but it's a square cut on the diagonal

QST - quarter square triangles - four of these make a square -

The HST and QST are the same shape - a 45, 45, and 90 degree triangle.

The difference is - the straight of grain is along the long edge on the QST
- and the HST long edge is on the bias

Clear as mud?

thank you so much...I feel real silly now :oops: I have been showing my star quilts that i made out of 1/2 squares..... :P thanks for the info...
tammy g

I was machine quilting my oldest son's eagle quilt and sewed my finger to the quilt. The needle bent in my machine and I had to take a pair of wire cutters I so happen to have near and cut the needle into to release my finger, my youngest son came on the house while I was stuck and saw me, he ran out of the house leaving me to get free on my own. :roll: I pulled batting out of my finger for a few minutes :lol:

OUCH! OUCH! OUCH! I have a similar story of my electric drill and my index finger, but I'll spare you the details.

I've laughed all the way through this thread...but my fingers, knees and well..other parts are all feeling sympathy pain! I know from experience just how much also...you know how you pull up your bobbin thread from the back when you are quilting...well, I was doing that at the end of a run so I could cut the bobbin thread and I stuck my finger directly into the spot where the needle went down. DUH.....sewing injury...and people ask how in the world... :oops:

More mis-sewn blocks (yes, even same one 2 or 3 x) than I care to admit..

One rotary cutter accident, couldn't believe it as I am extremely careful. Wouldn't have believed it except for blood all over - while finger was still in shock and before pain set in.

While finishing a quilt for my niece, I was using a pair of applique scissors instead of a seam ripper to take out a part of the quilting I wasn't happy with. Cut into the flipping top, leaving about a 1/2" cut.

Most recently: Couldn't figure out why machine was balking. Yes, I was sewing through many layers on my Professional Tote, but still... Oh, what's that? My beautiful purple cutting mat had been picked up with the fabric and I'd sewn several stitches through it. Drat!!

Still, I think Bearisgray wins, not once but twice over!

I think I've done everything (to some degree) but sew through my cutting mat