What will you never do again in your sewing/quilting room?
10-02-2013, 12:11 PM
#42
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Originally Posted by dunster
How funny! I did all the bill paying for the first 25 years, then told my husband it was time for a trade - he got the checkbook and I got the remote. He took the checkbook and actually did a good job with it, but I still didn't get the remote. In a few more years it will be 50, and then it's my turn to take back the accounting. At least very little of it is done with the checkbook anymore.
10-02-2013, 12:54 PM
#43
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Originally Posted by dunster
How funny! I did all the bill paying for the first 25 years, then told my husband it was time for a trade - he got the checkbook and I got the remote. He took the checkbook and actually did a good job with it, but I still didn't get the remote. In a few more years it will be 50, and then it's my turn to take back the accounting. At least very little of it is done with the checkbook anymore.
10-02-2013, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by aborning
I will never again cut minky fabric in my sewing room--or in any room in my house!
I have sworn off minky entirely - even outside - and gave away every little bit of what I had to someone on the board who makes adorable stuffed animals.
My quilting lab is my castle - family rules are knock before entering, wear protective footwear against the pins, don't bring in food, don't come in all pet-hairy or with garden-shoes, and don't mess with the design board!
10-02-2013, 01:47 PM
#45
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Originally Posted by BellaBoo
I will not make room for a bed for someone to sleep in my sewing room.
10-02-2013, 07:47 PM
#47
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What I will never do again, re: sewing room...leave the room with the machine still plugged in and a very young gr-dtr in the house....woo eee, biggest bird nest I ever saw on the machine. Had to take it to a repair shop to get it fixed.
10-02-2013, 07:50 PM
#48
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Using my feet for closing drawers. I used my foot to close my plastic 3 drawer storage drawer plastic storage units I bought at Walmart. I keep my scraps in these. Well the other day I used my foot to close the bottom drawer and I cracked it just because I was to frigging lazy to bend over and close it properly. It looks pretty tacky now with a big crack down the front of the bottom drawer.
10-02-2013, 08:11 PM
#49
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I will not garden without my gloves....doing my handwork and thread basting my DIL's quilt is very painful....my hands are covered in cuts from ripping out kikuyu and cleaning up a potted Yukka without gloves..IDIOT!!!
10-03-2013, 03:24 AM
#50
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I will NEVER AGAIN think that I can keep it clean! Neat, picked up, no puzels on the floor (puzels are cut off threads, little pieces of fabric, i.e. dog-ears! In My Dreams!! It is a waste of time, and energy and the good feeling I am having while I am sewing. Heaven forbid I should think about puzels on the floor while I am in the process of producing a masterpiece - IN MY MIND!!!!! At the end of the day of sewing, I will vacuum up the floor! I will straighten up my sewing table and ironing board. You will note that I did not say the C word - clean! Picked up to a point, but cleaned - NO! Not until I am through making the quilt or whatever. Then everything gets cleaned, dusted, windows to mopboards. Not to mention the sewing machine. Clean! Then, I just start all over again. Very simple, very easy. People know that my little sewing area is a part of the front room (hey, we only - sorry, I only have a four room house plus bathroom - it was big enough for son growing up, husband and I after son left home, went to school and got married. It's a little bigger now since my husband died, a little lonelier, but big enough for me and my puzels!!!! Edie
Last edited by Edie; 10-03-2013 at 03:27 AM.
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