cashs_mom

I think I have several projects that could be named "Patience" hahaha

KalamaQuilts

one of my first pieces, when we cut emplates by hand. I traced around the template with red teachers correction pencil.
The piece came out beautifully, newbie, hand stitching and all. but that red pencil. it showed up around all the pieces. I just looked for it, know I still have it, but couldn't lay my hands right on it. but the piecing was beautiful :0 this was back in 1970-ish.

then there was my effort at double wedding ring. about the same time, except I didn't trace around my templates, just cut around it. you all know what happens when you do that, it gets shaved and shaved. But before I got to "why don't any of thiese pieces fit together"...I chose satin for my corner pieces. like trying to put socks on a monkey. Obviously it never got far but I gave a talk about it at a regional quilt show to great laughter. those are probably the worst.

And I will add, worst worst single thing...buying fabric just because. A stash is a foolish thing, my opinion only.

Onebyone

Then I turned the quilt over. Yikes! The back was all covered with tucks.

My first time basting a quilt I ended up with a mess like that. I cut fabric squares, strips, and rectangles, to fit over the tucks and appliqued them over them. Much faster than unpicking all the quilting. The back looked custom and no one was the wiser. At show and tell everyone loved the back. LOL The quilt is years old and still in use.

ptquilts

Not mine, but another sewist. I used to do hand quilting for a quilt store and they had someone else make the tops. It was a Texas Star, when I unfolded it and laid it flat to baste it, the entire center was all puffed up. You could have hidden a basketball under it. Hand quilting is fairly forgiving but not that much. I sent it back and someone more experienced re-sewed it.

In all my years of quilting, I have never put a quilt together with the backing wrong side out. A small thing but I'm proud of it. ;-)

GingerK

My neice's quilt. I picked out the fabrics--all Northcott. I tested the pattern block--came out to a perfect size. I proceeded to cut the largest piece for the blocks--1/2 inch too small. Thank goodness I had bought extra fabric because I was sizing up from a queen to a king. And thank goodness I had only cut half the pieces before I realized my mistake. I think I still have those too small pieces somewhere in my sewing room.

sewbizgirl

I'm still deciding what to do with mine.... I had a pattern for a Christmas wall hanging and once I assembled all the perfect fabrics for it, I started. The quilt had a half of a Christmas tree and Scottie dogs putting the baubles on. Very cute. Well I made the tree correctly, but for the dogs (3) I somehow got the applique wrong and they came out facing the wrong direction. They are nearly life size, so I have 3 big dogs, facing the wrong way. Been deliberating on a 'fix' for several years, while the pieces just sit.

WMUTeach

SBG, I have the same pattern. I thought my Scotty loving friend needed it. But it seems to just keep falling off the ""To Do List". I am thinking of simply retiring the pattern and to "forget about it". I gave her another quilt that she insisted she must have. It was my first and only attempt at spiral quilting. Yikes, not my favorite technique.e

Hope you find a solution to your Scotty dilemma. It is a charming quilt.

cathyvv

[QUOTE=Lena1952;8690854]Marrying my first husband. -

Well, that was my biggest life mistake, too.

Quilting mistake - so many! But last week, as I was quilting the last row of a quilt on my longarm, I put my left hand under the quilt to make sure the backing (fleece) was flat. Much to my surprise, my longarm quilted into my pointer finger - five stitches before i managed to pull my hand out from under the quilt. Luckily, the needle did not hit the bone.

But I definitely left some DNA behind!

(So far, the finger is healing well.)

cathyvv

I freely admit that I quilt as an excuse to buy fabric!

DebbieJJ

Thanks for that suggestion, Onebyone! Now that you mention it, I seem to remember seeing that too.