eparys

How timely this thread is!! I would say that yesterday was it for me!!

I was busy using up large batting scraps to longarm small table runners the day before. I always lay the two pieces on the cutting board and cut a fresh straight line through the pieces then take them to the ironing board to use strips of light weight interfacing to fuse them tog.

Off to the longarm they all went , got 8 runners quilted!! Yeah!! After cutting them apart and trimming them I always give them a quick press (both sides) only to find a dark green scrap between the white backing and the batting on two of them. I was so upset! I ended up ripping out enough of the quilting to use a long pair of tweezers to get them out and used the thread I used on the longarm on my domestic to restitch the designs I had ripped out.

Cam's gram

Mine was maiking a quilt for DGD and the pattern was called Simply Woven. There was nothing simple about it. You'd sew strips together and then cut. I was about half way through the quilt, I starting the next cutting step - I cut almost half the squares wrong. They were not salvable. Had to get more material to inish itl Was so glad when it was done,

LGJARN52

sewbizgirl.....is it possible to add another Christmas to the side the dogs are facing?
Lena....1st and 2nd husbands can be a mistake...but then I wouldn't have the children that I have and that would be horrible in my book. I hit the jackpot on #3.
OneByOne....I used curtain extension rods to avoid the bungee cords when I had my machine on a Grace frame.

aashley333

Yesterday, I was trimming scrappy blocks to 5 1/2" when I had trouble. I had accidently grabbed two pieces and made a cut before realizing. I ruined the bottom block and had to replace it.--Slow down!

Sunday, I cut the same index finger 3 times! First, rotary cutter hit finger, barely-small cut with blood. Second, snipping excess fabric at corners caught the same finger, also barely with blood. Then, I finally wounded myself at the tip by cutting through 4 layers to reduce bulk, And, my finger. It needed a band-aid!

I had forgotten about the velveteen dress I made in Junior High School. I put the sleeve in wrong-side-out three times!
When my workroom was new, I excitedly made a stained glass panel. It was abstract. I just drew intersecting curved lines. When finished, I propped it leaning against the window to admire and take a picture. Next day, it had fallen to floor and cracked! Boo Hoo. Not yet repaired!

thimblebug6000

That sounded cute, wondered if you could make another tree, so I googled, presuming this is the pattern? Did you already attach the dogs, or could you remake them? https://quiltingsistersunravelled.wo...ristmas-quilt/

Gay

GingerK - Love your nieces' quilt, and would like the pattern name please. It looks rather difficult as the blocks don't seem to fit - yet they do.

Lena1952

My children are the only reason I didn’t include my second husband in my worst goof category. Like you, it took three tries to hit the jackpot. Some things just require time and experience to get to a happy place.

loisf

Add another to the "third husband's the winner" group. But quilting goofs, I have many.

There's the time I got to the end of quilting my daughter's king quilt only to find that the backing was short. Luckily, the on-line store had more. Off the long arm with the quilt, sewed on the additional backing, reloaded the quilt and finished. Lesson learned. I always check before I load now.

One of may favorite quilts, the one that hangs on the wall behind my sewing machine, has one block in which I used the back of the fabric instead of the front. It wouldn't be so bad, except that the block has four pieces of that same fabric, three of which are positioned correctly. It's pretty subtle, but I see it every time.

And then there's this graduated quilt where I reversed a three block panel. Of course, I never noticed either of these last two mistakes until the quilt was quilted, even though I always take a photo before I quilt. I'd better look closer. I'm sure there are more, but I'm getting depressed.

toverly

I had a quilt for our screen porch that our cat adopted. It was her quilt. After it accumulated too much cat hair and dirt, I washed it with a little bit of bleach in case of fleas. Yep, I then had an entirely white quilt. I tossed it.

GingerK

Loisf, the quilt on the left in your post, (I think that's the graduated one) is there a pattern? I find it really intriguing. It would make a great guy quilt. And I couldn't find the mistake in either of them BTW.