I sew on vintage machines (in this case model 66)- this will become relevant later in the list:

Reasons I shouldn't sew after midnight:
1/ It wakes the rabbit and she makes a ton of noise

2/ seam allowances mystically change from 1/4" to 5/8" and back again

The following occur after I've decided the machine needs a good cleaning and that's the reason for all my troubles:

3/ It takes me 30 min of sewing with thread that's breaking to realize I have the needle in backwards

4/ It takes two hours of playing with the thread tension, stitch length etc to realize that the reason I have no upper thread tension no matter what I adjust is because I have the thread behind the tension discs instead of between them.

5/ somewhere around one am I forget that the hand wheel needs to spin towards me not away and it takes another 15 min to figure out why the machine's not sewing.

Just thought someone might find this entertaining. That and the thread tension thing is something that makes you want to smack your forehead and go "Duh!" but I'm betting I'm not the only one that's done it.

Happy sewing!!!!!

LOL!!

I hear you, I've done both the tension disc and the handwheel thing in the past.....hopefully not again, but no promises!

Yep! been there done that and sew much more:)

lol, sorry now laughing at you. I can sew great at 1am, however I can NOT sew in the morning, unless I have stayed up all night doing it of course! I got on a weird schedual because my husabnd was working 4pm to midnight. I would sit and sew for hours after the kids went to bed. Now that he has been on days for five months I still can't get on a schedual to go to bed before 3 am.

LOL. but I do understand.

it's not nice to laugh at someone else's hardships, but :lol: :lol:

You'e not laughing at me, at this point you're laughing with me :lol:. I can see how funny it is now that there's daylight and i'm looking at the seams I did last night going "why did I sew these together again?"

LOL!

To add - reasons not to press after midnight... On Sunday I was pressing the horizontal sashing strips with cornerstones for a quilt I'm working on - and pressed the teal cornerstones inwards rather than onto the white sashing so that they don't show through.

Then for whatever reason - I carefully re-pressed the seams on the main strips so that the seams would butt correctly when I joined everything. Well - I carefully pressed the seams towards the vertical sashing strips - so now the seams are all set to sit on one another. So the first thing I had to do last night was re-press the main strips yet again.

Fortunately it is a 5 block by 5 block quilt so not too many seams to worry over.

Cheers, K

My time limit is earlier than that. My husband is used to me saying, sometime after 10 pm,"Time to quit. Just did something stupid."

Last night, it was sewing right side of one strip to wrong side of another. Time to turn it off and go to bed!