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Originally Posted by Celeste
Hair spray... This is timely for me, not on quilt but on clothes and still in washer. (yep, forgot to check pockets!) :oops:
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Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian
I finished the #!$!^* thing on Christmas eve,
OMG, I get a sympathy stomach ache just reading your story. Isn't your Mom sweet though? |
My quilt horror story is..I tried to make a lone star not by piecing but by using a big diamond shape got it from my sister lost directions tried to do it by phone :shock: :cry:
Now I got it all together and I was so proud until I spread it out and it had a cap at the center would not lay flat. Ripped out stiches tried and ripped and tried then :cry: . Wadded it up threw it in a bin,forgot it. Then I came across it 2 weeks ago :-o took it to my neighbor quilter and ask for help She said OH!!! I just learned how to do that so it will lay down. She showed me what to do. Then said if that doesn't work you can just quilt the ##@@ out of it and know one will know. I haven't tried it yet, it keeps looking at me. I guess I will wait a little while longer before attacking it. :x BillsBonBon |
Originally Posted by Bill'sBonBon
My quilt horror story is..I tried to make a lone star
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Originally Posted by Bill'sBonBon
My quilt horror story is..I tried to make a lone star not by piecing but by using a big diamond shape got it from my sister lost directions tried to do it by phone :shock: :cry:
Now I got it all together and I was so proud until I spread it out and it had a cap at the center would not lay flat. Ripped out stiches tried and ripped and tried then :cry: . Wadded it up threw it in a bin,forgot it. Then I came across it 2 weeks ago :-o took it to my neighbor quilter and ask for help She said OH!!! I just learned how to do that so it will lay down. She showed me what to do. Then said if that doesn't work you can just quilt the ##@@ out of it and know one will know. I haven't tried it yet, it keeps looking at me. I guess I will wait a little while longer before attacking it. :x BillsBonBon |
Originally Posted by Bill'sBonBon
Originally Posted by Bill'sBonBon
My quilt horror story is..I tried to make a lone star not by piecing but by using a big diamond shape got it from my sister lost directions tried to do it by phone :shock: :cry:
Now I got it all together and I was so proud until I spread it out and it had a cap at the center would not lay flat. Ripped out stiches tried and ripped and tried then :cry: . Wadded it up threw it in a bin,forgot it. Then I came across it 2 weeks ago :-o took it to my neighbor quilter and ask for help She said OH!!! I just learned how to do that so it will lay down. She showed me what to do. Then said if that doesn't work you can just quilt the ##@@ out of it and know one will know. I haven't tried it yet, it keeps looking at me. I guess I will wait a little while longer before attacking it. :x BillsBonBon |
Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian
I bought a new kind of basting spray (bet you already know where this is going, eh?) after spending dozens of hours on the quilt top, assembled the quilt with the batting and backing, quilted bound and washed it, and the spray adhesive didn't wash out! There were discoloured blotchy patches all over the backing. I tried every kind of solvant in the house, and nothing worked. It even kind of faded the colours a bit :(
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Originally Posted by Lucky Patsy's "Mom"
I have a gorgeous Irish chain that my mother pieced for me and my aunt hand-quilted. I fell asleep once while grading papers in bed and got ink stains all over it, which I have never been able to remove! ARRRRGGGGHHHHH! I toy with the idea of picking out the quilting and removing the worst pieces and trying to replace them, but I am too scared to try it!
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Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
Originally Posted by motomom
Originally Posted by MadQuilter
Hope you heal soon since blood stains are hard to get out of the fabric.
Spit on it, and blot with a paper towel. It needs lots of spit, and it has to be YOUR spit to work. Remaining smudge will come right out when washed with COLD, not hot, water. I don't want to eat myself, in my sleep, and wake up dead! :lol: |
Originally Posted by Baren*eh*ked_canadian
Each quilt I finish has some kind of horror story attatched to it, but I think the worst one is the irish chain I made for my mum for Christmas last year. I bought a new kind of basting spray (bet you already know where this is going, eh?) after spending dozens of hours on the quilt top, assembled the quilt with the batting and backing, quilted bound and washed it, and the spray adhesive didn't wash out! There were discoloured blotchy patches all over the backing. I tried every kind of solvant in the house, and nothing worked. It even kind of faded the colours a bit :( I finished the #!$!^* thing on Christmas eve, or soemthing so there really wasn't any time at all to fix it, and I was bawling my face off. Luckily it was for my mother, I gave the gift anyway, and explained what happend to it. I got lots of wonderful suggestions from this forum and told my mother what to wash it with and she didn't even care that it was stained. She said you could barely tell and it didn't matter. If anyone ever came over to her house and made comments about her gift she would tell them where to shove it, lol! My parents still fight over the quilt, my father keeps stealing it to use on the sofa in the basement when he's watching hockey or playing music or something and my mother always has to hunt it down, lol! I'm making my father his own quilt right now, but I will never EVER use that brand of spray basting again. EVER!
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