If you didn't laugh, you'd cry...
 

What's the biggest "oops" you ever made while quilting?

Or is it just me?

I once made a rather intricate, (for me), Easter table runner in bright pinks and greens and when I finally put it all together and got it done, it was pointed out to me that the centre squares all made swastikas, down the middle of my runner. :eek:

There was one project that went in the garbage.....

I only wish I had a picture. When I got over my shock and disapointment , it was really quite laughable. All these bright Easter coloured swastikas...

Watson

I can't think of any big OOPS I ever made expect for using fabric that didn't work out as well as I had expected. I always check things twice before I piece or quilt. It saves me time tracking down where Jack the Ripper has gone into hiding.

When I was beginning to quilt, many years ago, I bought the fabric for a quilt and I thought that I would get things to go faster so I cut the fabric before I made a sample block ( that's what I do now). When I started to sew things did not come out right ....I had cut one fabric too short!. I had to resize all the pattern and buy new material to finish.

I've thrown a lot of projects in the trash. Sometimes it's the only thing to do.

Funny you should mentioned that, I bet you thought you were the only one. I posted my Star Spin table topper before but I will post the picture again for you. I keep a plant in the center....:D[ATTACH=CONFIG]539935[/ATTACH]

I cut the wrong fabric for the wrong pattern. The colors were similar. Now I put the fabric I'm going to use for a specific pattern in a designated project box which I'm also in the process of transferring to large ziplocs, I can label. The name of the recipient is on the label and the pattern is upfront where I can read it.

Tartan, I DID think I was the only one! Welcome to the club!

Watson

I have been told that the American Indians used the swastika design year and years and years before Germans were using it. I don't know what they called it, but it was in pottery designs and more. I never have researched it though, and, I guess it doesn't matter, since we all think of it as a swastika sign.... It wouldn't be what was wanted in most quilts.

Dina

My worst mistake was making a Storm at Sea quilt using percale sheets (!), high loft batting (!!) and THEN deciding that I should echo quilt the thing by hand (!!!) It was for my elder daughter's 5th birthday and needless to say, she did not get it. It languished as a UFO for years until I decided to ram it through my machine just to get the darned thing finished and then I took it to football games when my younger daughter was a high school cheerleader. That sucker was indestructible!

The Navajo used it, I think.
Actually, it is a very early quilt block called the flyfot or fylfot.

http://www.quakerquilthistory.com/20...or-fylfot.html