I live over by Woodard Chevrolet. Do you belong to the quilting guild here in town? I've been thinking of making a meeting one Wed night when they are at the quilt shop.

I don't belong to it, but have thought about going to a meeting also. None of my friends quilt and I think it would be great to have a place to get advice and/or help. I've been sewing forever, but started quilting in 2003 so any advice would be SO welcomed.
I started emailing back and forth with GailG from this board and I love her and wish she was my next door neighbor!
Let me know if you are going to a meeting of the NorthWind Quilters.

Thanks Dona, my feelings are mutual. We're our own long-distance mini guild. :lol:

Hi Gail,
I really mean it... we seem to have so much in common and I would love to sit over coffee and talk quilts and cakes with you! Wouldn't you like to move to CA????

HMMM, I'll have to think about that. :lol: Wouldn't you like to move to Cajun country?? I would like to visit your neck of the woods. I've never been to CA.

Coffee and brownies would be awesome to go with all that chatter we could produce. lol

I think it's too late for the stupid stick Someone beat us to it. :lol: :lol: :lol: . I wish I could say I never did anything like that. Well, now you know why I always buy a little extra fabric. My favorite expressions seems to be.......................AWE CRAAAP!

Oh, Jackie... that is too funny! But I can identify with that too!

Now, now! It's Quilt Karma. You shake yourself of the bad vibes and you're going to have to move on by going to the fabric shop and balance the Yin & Yang of your interself and purchase more fabric. That is what I do when I make a slight error and they have been known to happen.

Isn't this a GREAT bunch of folks that we have on this board. I love the positive spin everyone ALWAYS has on what might be considered a mistake or stupidity or ???? Mammabird, you don't need a stupid stick because every PERCEIVED mistake is a learning tool for our future. Enjoy your project and at the time (in the future) when you use up your strips that were a "mistake" , you'll have fond memories of the old project; the anxiety you had and how glad you are that this happened because now the current project is being completed more quickly using the "mistakes" that are all cut and ready to be sewn,. :wink:

Somewhere down the road you are going to take those lemons ( wrong cut strips) and make some wonderful lemonade. Uuummm what is that song, There is a reason for everything under the sun. Hard part is finding it now, maybe not for you but in a swap or charity event where the other person is just waiting for it to come along.

Good luck! Remember only God is perfect, our quilts don't need to be.

I hate myself after doing a mystery and half way thru I find I don't have enough scraps of needed shade to finish the quilt top. I whined all the way to WalMarts. Rosetta :oops:

Remember there is no such thing as stupid mistakes -- just happy and creative ways to design another quilt.

Nana, I live just up the interstate from you. Conroe. I have been a lurker for about a year. I love pp. I have only been quilting 2 yrs. belong to 4 guilds, am addicted to quilting. I am a nana to 6 and one great grandchild.

That's enough.Rosetta

Just think: If we were perfect, then the words "mistake" and "accident" would have no use and we shouldn't be wasteful. lol

Yes, you are just up the road!!! I have a very good friend and former room mate in Conroe, I do visit her ever so often. I do shop at the Woodlands sometimes and there is a quilt shop that I can never remember the name of. This is almost like "hello neighbor."

You said you cut the fabric wrong. Do you mean that you cut it in the wrong direction? Like with or against the grain? Which ever, I don't know why you can't use it either way. Don't we all make big mistakes? My mother, (bless her) was a quilter, and so would always tell me that the only one that walked this earth, that could make a prefect quilt, was Jesus himself. Makes me feel good when I mess up!! And I do it plenty. Good luck!!!!

It's called Design Opportunity!

I don't have a stupid stick and I've done some pretty stupid things, but I was beat with an ugly stick when I was younger.

I agree with Patrice. Something 'wrong' can be a happy accident. That happened to me with my first quilt!

Jojo

:oops: I am officially getting in line for a healthy dose of ass-wuppin with the stupid stick today. I actually made one of those (beat head against wall) novice mistakes AND I KNEW BETTER. grrrr

Ripped strips of fabric for alternating between the scrap strips and instead of measuring all the components and cutting to size - like a fool, I sewed on the strips ladida. NOW the sections don't fit together and I have to rip all those 72 1/2" strips and start over.

Before, I would have kicked myself - now I'm waiting for the beatin. :twisted:

Sorry for your error. Don't you ask yourself, why do I love quilting? Yet, we get over it and go right back to doing what we LIKE. No matter how many quilts one makes, and your think you know what you're doing, mistakes still happen. That is just why we care considered human, right?? :oops: :cry:

Hi Mamabird3.........Sounds just like something I would do and have plenty of times. Sometimes, we just have our minds on so many things, it makes us do crazy things. I laugh at myself sometimes at the crazy things I do, I would tell you some of them, but I don't think there is enough room for me to list them on this space. :D IT IS SO MANY!!!! :D ... but anyway, I see you have already came up with a good idea for the mistake. Thank goodness for mistakes sometimes! You just made alot of us feel really at home. We've been there done that! Have a blessed day, or night. :!:

Me TOO!!!

:thumbup: I don't think you're stupid - what a great excuse to hit the stores once again. It also stands to reason, that as long as you are there you might as well pick up a few more small (?) items. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: