jaciqltznok

this is my ONE bad habit! in the sewing room anyway!

msquiltalot

I sometimes sew with pins in my mouth. Still trying to break this very bad habit.

tjradj

I am very slowly learning the hard way to not sew over pins. I recently did the most damage ever. When I hit the pin, it bent the needle which then stabbed into the side of the bobbin carrier. A great big slash in the side of it. My dealer didn't have a replacement one on hand, so I smoothed the plastic off with the blade of my scissors. (Yup, the sewing scissors). I have to replace them often too because I'm the worst offender of using them for things other than fabric.

NanaCsews2

LOL. I was wondering if someone was going to post this. Reprimanded by the dentist. My bite changed too due to TMJ and a bridge. Now I can't whistle for nothing or chomp down on those threads. Takes time to take out the scissors, don't ya know? lol

My habit is that I forget to put the iron on the iron rest attached to my Big Board ironing board. Doing so keeps the iron on and ready. I HATE it when I go to iron and I have to wait for the Rowenta to heat back up. Doesn't take long, but I hate the wait. No waiting if I keep it on the slant and ready to go.

My worse habit I haven't been able to break yet? Purchasing fabric I don't need yet.

Favorite Fabrics

Me too! And any other "junk". I learned to be messy when I worked in a bridal shop (for just a couple of months). I saw that was what the seamstresses did - it was faster than aiming for a garbage can - and at the end of the day they just swept up the floor.

Trouble is... at the end of my day, I don't sweep up the floor!

Becky Crafts

If you ask my DH, I sew too slowly. I won't let it sew over the mid-speed to preserve my machine normally. Going too fast is hard on the machine parts & I don't want to wear it out prematurely. Sometimes though, even I get a little anxious. Just once with my present machine I was exhausted & ready for bed, so I jacked it up & stomped on it. Finished that long seam quickly, but DH couldn't stop talking about it for a month!! LOl!

HollyDav

I toss thread on the floor. Hold pins in my mouth, my mother did this it is an inherited habit. I am also messy with my scraps. I leave my sewing/quilting books all over the house, when I need one it may be on the coffee table, the kitchen table, on the porch, my night stand so I have to running around looking for it. As form self help I am using a tip from one of my books. WWMD ... What would Martha do? (yes Martha Stewart). Love her or not you have admit she is very neat and organized. A powerful role model for the organizationally challenged. When I find myself being a sewing slob, rushing a project or some other evil thing I chant this a few times. I believe it is affecting my sub conscious and I am slowly becoming neater.

CarrieC

So many to pick from... I suppose my biggest sins are:

1 - Sewing to fast
2 - Stash building when I shouldn't (I'm very guilty of this)
3 - Having a TON of projects in line to be started and then not doing them in order... in other words building my "projects to be done" stash

mummadee

bad ones outweigh the good ones mastered:
Too many projects - both started and unstarted
too much fabric but can't stop buying
don't change needles or blades soon enough
cut from right
pins in mouth - terrible for teeth
however--

SunlitenSmiles

ok, I fib to my friends, when they call to say let's go to lunch, to the mall or costco my answer is oh sorry other plans, when it is really that i want to sew all day.....then i have to hide my car because i have one friend who drives by and checks ........ family have actually called the LQS to find me because i did not answer my cell. but, in my defense i never miss a chance to go to a quilt shop or shop hop or quilt show!