I learned not to spray baste in my kitchen. That stuff is a bear to get off the flooring. Just when you thought you got it all, there's another sticky spot

One year for Christmas I asked for my own remote. As I was unwrapping it, my daughter was humming "Dueling Banjos" When husband realized that I too had the power, we got along very well. We've been married 53 years.

Oh dear totally off the rails here but have to say my DH at 65 is EMOTIONALLY INCAPABLE of having direct-deposit for his paychecks, using on-line bill-pay and balancing his bank account, getting e-bills...He is a mass of paperwork. :(

Oh ditto ditto ditto
I have sworn off minky entirely - even outside - and gave away every little bit of what I had to someone on the board who makes adorable stuffed animals.

My quilting lab is my castle - family rules are knock before entering, wear protective footwear against the pins, don't bring in food, don't come in all pet-hairy or with garden-shoes, and don't mess with the design board!

Agree, agree...I purposely have mine filled with vintage machines as well as my Janome and my embroidery machine, so we can only have one couple at a time for vacation visits. Love it. :)

What will I never do in my sewing room again? Take awful custom sewing jobs with tacky fabrics I hate to work with. Life is too short for that!

What I will never do again, re: sewing room...leave the room with the machine still plugged in and a very young gr-dtr in the house....woo eee, biggest bird nest I ever saw on the machine. Had to take it to a repair shop to get it fixed.

Using my feet for closing drawers. I used my foot to close my plastic 3 drawer storage drawer plastic storage units I bought at Walmart. I keep my scraps in these. Well the other day I used my foot to close the bottom drawer and I cracked it just because I was to frigging lazy to bend over and close it properly. It looks pretty tacky now with a big crack down the front of the bottom drawer.

I will not garden without my gloves....doing my handwork and thread basting my DIL's quilt is very painful....my hands are covered in cuts from ripping out kikuyu and cleaning up a potted Yukka without gloves..IDIOT!!!

I will NEVER AGAIN think that I can keep it clean! Neat, picked up, no puzels on the floor (puzels are cut off threads, little pieces of fabric, i.e. dog-ears! In My Dreams!! It is a waste of time, and energy and the good feeling I am having while I am sewing. Heaven forbid I should think about puzels on the floor while I am in the process of producing a masterpiece - IN MY MIND!!!!! At the end of the day of sewing, I will vacuum up the floor! I will straighten up my sewing table and ironing board. You will note that I did not say the C word - clean! Picked up to a point, but cleaned - NO! Not until I am through making the quilt or whatever. Then everything gets cleaned, dusted, windows to mopboards. Not to mention the sewing machine. Clean! Then, I just start all over again. Very simple, very easy. People know that my little sewing area is a part of the front room (hey, we only - sorry, I only have a four room house plus bathroom - it was big enough for son growing up, husband and I after son left home, went to school and got married. It's a little bigger now since my husband died, a little lonelier, but big enough for me and my puzels!!!! Edie

I paid all the bills and balanced the checkbook for 45 years. I also paid all my mom's bills and balanced her checkbook for over 10 years after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's until she passed. Before I retired, I was in charge of deposits and bookkeeping for all the organizations at a large high school as part of my job. When DH retired a little over 3 years ago, I said, "I'm sick of bookkeeping. I'm retiring from taking are of all the bills and the checkbook. It is your turn." What a relief! I still take care of my personal checking account---Yes we each have a checking account. It doesn't work well with 2 people using debit cards on one accout. lol

What will I never do in my sewing room again? Let my husband in! We recently had electricians in for repairs, and I asked him to give me better lighting. My husband came in to see the work and was amazed! He had no idea of the size of my stash. He teases me about it all the time now.

Boy, did you ever hit the nail on the head!!!

I with you there cherrio. I do not talk a lot, but in here all the time reading saving coming up with new thing to do. This is the best web page I go to.

What I will never do again is blindly reach for the iron. I did that, like I always do, and knocked it off the ironing board and it quit working. It was a very expensive iron ($149). Now I look at everything I'm reaching for. Too expensive of a lesson.

I will never try and work while my toddler is awake. Lol. I spent the whole time watching Aladdin with her instead of sewing. Once I get my basement apartment back df will have one room as a man cave, one will be a play room for miss monster and the giant living room will be my sewing room. And all those rooms link to the outside patio and front yard so bonus I can sew miss monster can play without me hovering. But this won't happen till my sibling moves out. Darn those rough times but I'm glad we could help him. Temporarily.

I will never let dh put a pen with 12 baby chicks and a heat lamp in there. By the time they were old enough to be put in a coop, there was a fine powdery substance over everything in the whole room.

I will never again accept my DHs sister's offer to 'organize' my sewing room. All the attachments for various machines were piled together in a drawer. The fabric I had halfway sorted was once more unsorted. I could have cried, thank heaven I stopped her halfway through. It was a thoughtful offer but I should have remembered that she's not a quilter.

I don't take uncovered cups of tea into the sewing room anymore either.
I will always make sure that the thread from the cone thread stand is where it belongs. It got all wrapped around the big wheel that guides the belt; it took forever to get it all out. Treadles don't work very well all wrapped up in thread.
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Sharon

SO lucky it didn't land all over your bright, shiny new (or new to you) electronic sewing/quilting/embroidery machine(s)!!!

[/QUOTE=TrueColors];Sometimes I wonder if I'll actually sew in there....haha. I think I spend more time and money shopping & planning my projects than actually working on them. And now, I've discovered this board, and am spending hours reading and replying instead of doing something.[/QUOTE]
Me too!;)

I have learned dont ever and I mean ever let your kids or hubby use your sewing area unless supervised. To make a long story short. My good scissors ended up being used on ?, you guessed it, PAPER ($&#&!)#(%^ ^&%*&). I am sure glad that they werent the expensive ones like Ghinger. Sewing area is now off limits unless I am standing there watching all you tread on my domain. LOL

about 6 weeks ago, I went into my sewing room, barefooted, to reach around the corner for something with just the hall light on.. and WHAM ~~ caught my pinky toe, on the cabinet.. and broke it..
that will teach me, for sewing at midnight.. speaking of which, where are my slippers..

These stories are great! I don't have any "never again" stories for mine yet....I just wish it was BIGGER. It's the largest spare room in the house and it's just too small (it's barely 10x10, so "largest spare room" is still pretty small). I tried to convince my husband that I should have the master bedroom as my sewing room but that didn't work, LOL. I guess my "never again" is "never buy a house that doesn't have a BIG extra bedroom"! Some day I want a long arm but I need to buy a bigger house before I can buy one!

I learned last week not to step in the house dripping wet and remove my shoes at the door and then I guess the water was running down my legs because second step onto the wood floors had me flying through the air and bruised my kneecap and inflamed my sciatic nerve. Standing is not to bad. nothing broken which I am glad about. Moral of story leave wet shoes on until you can dry off. Duh!!

Sometimes I wake up early and go right to my sewing room. I don't change out of my nightgown and robe so that I don't wake my husband...I've found that that's very dangerous. I stood on my small stepladder to put the blocks of a large quilt up on my design wall and somehow stepped on the bottom of my gown and tripped. The ladder collapsed and I went flying...ouch! So now I take clothes to the Bathroom and change first.

I'm going to answer the question:
What will you never do again in your sewing/quilting room?

Whelp puppies
This room has gone through several repurposings, and right before it was my sewing room, it was the room where puppies were whelped, and they were kept with their moms for 4 weeks.
Due to my accident, never again, but now is the birth of a sewing room!

It started as a dining room, then some toddlers' toy room, then back to a dining room, then pups, now sewing. Years ago didn't they have the casket on display n the front room? I told my husband, 'just prop me up beside the sewing machine if I die"
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCiKxjZTa2I)

I will never again use super glue in my sewing room. Enough said. LOL

I have promised myself never to invite a pack of little kids into my sewing room while I embroidered their name and a cute motif a bag I was making for each one.. I had kids and thread and stabilizer and a million questions all at the same time. They were all good kids, but anytime you have 5 kids under 9 in one room at the same time you have your hands full! It was the best day ever in my sewing room!!!!

True sisters in spirit. I sometimes more enjoy the planning, plotting (and a load of other things) more than the actual sewing. Referring to "True colours comment"

Only one thing I will NEVER do--CLEAN!!! - when I clean I can never find a thing!! Let them deal with it when I'm Dead!!

I will drink coffee or iced tea while sewing at the dining room table. Knock on wood, no accidents yet!

My sewing room/office is jammed and I bought a sewing table that almost take up the whole wall. Well, It has a lift up back so when you are quilting something big you have more space so it does not drag. It is a major overhaul of moving lots of stuff to get that back up. what was i thinking??? I take water and some times eat at the computer desk. Thanks for the coffee warning.

I will never clean again! I still can't find things.

I will never again put up a project to finish later without putting pattern, all fabric, and a note on what I was doing with it.

My sewing room was son's bedroom in a former life. My husband added some great features and made me glorious furniture, but we left the carpet. Would love some type of wood flooring, those sneaky pins hide on me & we're a no shoes in the house most of the time family...

This is a great idea!

I will never again let my 'well behaved' puppy in my sewing room! She was fast asleep on her bed in the corner, or so I thought. I found her covered in my once neatly laid out blocks on my 'design' floor, with a nice soggy piece of fabric hanging out of her mouth! Thankfully, she had only just started chewing and besides puppy saliva, no permanent damage was done.

I'm the same way!

I will never let somebody "borrow an electrical outlet" in my studio to plug in a crockpot that stunk up the place something fierce. Don't know what she was cooking but it took several weeks for the "fragrance" to go away.

Wow, this thread sat dormant for two years before recently being revived!

I will add that I will never cut sparkly, or sequined fabric in my sewing area... and always will spray baste outside. I have a table I set up in the middle of the yard for that!

I solved the remote problem by going out and buying my own universal remote.