What's Your Quilt Horror Story?
04-09-2009, 04:13 AM
#41
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Originally Posted by k3n
Originally Posted by key4unc
My quilt horror story is that I chopped off the tip of my middle finger with my rotary cutter Sunday. :shock: OUCH :( Definitely need to buy a klutz glove as this is the third time I've done/
But if this is the third time, I was wondering, just HOW short is that finger now? :D
K x
04-09-2009, 10:22 AM
#43
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Originally Posted by MadQuilter
Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
I have heard of this, so I tried it with chocolate, lol.
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04-09-2009, 06:04 PM
#44
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I actually have a horrible story, but I didn't have time to type it up until now.
My MIL is a wonderful quilter, and I love lighthouse. My MIL does a lot of embroidered quilt squares. She made me a lighthouse quilt for my birthday a couple years ago. She drew these lighthouses before embroidering from a pattern she cut out or something. She looked at all kinds of pictures of lighthouses to figure out how to embroider them. How sweet, and how much work she must've put into this quilt!
I have a friend that bought me an Amish built shelf w/a quilt hanger. So, I hung my quilt from MIL on this shelf!
Well, when we moved into our new house that DH built us, we still had well water, which came from MIL's well. We had bought a water conditioner and had been keeping the iron to a minimum. So, my son and DD liked to get behind the quilt and play and hide. And they had cheesey poofs...cheese puffs, cheese curls, you know those yellow corn snacks....and, you guessed it, they got it on the quilt!
So, I washed it. And YOU GUESSED IT--something had gone wrong with the water. I don't know if there had been air in the lines (from turning the pump on and off during lightning), or WHAT, but the iron decided to come out on the quilt. The cheesey poofs washed out, but iron is HE)( to get out!
If there are quilt police here, leave now! I got the stains out by putting greased lightning on the quilt and scrubbing with a small brush. It came out. I don't remember if I washed something else through the washer before I put the quilt back in or not. If you looked close enough, you might be able to tell I scrubbed the quilt, but I doubt it. I never told my MIL. I won't. It took a long time to get all those stains out. I was so afraid it would never be the same! The kids still won't leave it alone, but all food is strictly banned from any room other than the kitchen! And that's where it should've been in the first place. I didn't tell them to take the cheesies off the counter and go hide!
My MIL is a wonderful quilter, and I love lighthouse. My MIL does a lot of embroidered quilt squares. She made me a lighthouse quilt for my birthday a couple years ago. She drew these lighthouses before embroidering from a pattern she cut out or something. She looked at all kinds of pictures of lighthouses to figure out how to embroider them. How sweet, and how much work she must've put into this quilt!
I have a friend that bought me an Amish built shelf w/a quilt hanger. So, I hung my quilt from MIL on this shelf!
Well, when we moved into our new house that DH built us, we still had well water, which came from MIL's well. We had bought a water conditioner and had been keeping the iron to a minimum. So, my son and DD liked to get behind the quilt and play and hide. And they had cheesey poofs...cheese puffs, cheese curls, you know those yellow corn snacks....and, you guessed it, they got it on the quilt!
So, I washed it. And YOU GUESSED IT--something had gone wrong with the water. I don't know if there had been air in the lines (from turning the pump on and off during lightning), or WHAT, but the iron decided to come out on the quilt. The cheesey poofs washed out, but iron is HE)( to get out!
If there are quilt police here, leave now! I got the stains out by putting greased lightning on the quilt and scrubbing with a small brush. It came out. I don't remember if I washed something else through the washer before I put the quilt back in or not. If you looked close enough, you might be able to tell I scrubbed the quilt, but I doubt it. I never told my MIL. I won't. It took a long time to get all those stains out. I was so afraid it would never be the same! The kids still won't leave it alone, but all food is strictly banned from any room other than the kitchen! And that's where it should've been in the first place. I didn't tell them to take the cheesies off the counter and go hide!
04-09-2009, 06:17 PM
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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!
04-09-2009, 06:24 PM
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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!
04-10-2009, 04:07 AM
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I found out hairspray would take permanent marker off of hard plastic and other hard surfaces when I was a kid. Let's just say I've always been "creative". Later on, I found out that alcohol does the same, and I assumed it was the alcohol in the hairspray that was doing the trick.
So, does alcohol work on fabric? Maybe it's worth a try.
Celeste: I've used both kinds on hard surfaces.
So, does alcohol work on fabric? Maybe it's worth a try.
Celeste: I've used both kinds on hard surfaces.
04-10-2009, 05:17 AM
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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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