stitch678

Gee, l'm glad l'm not the only one! 😅
l have a Janome 8900 , love it, but it has an acrylic extension table with a slot for a moveable seam guide. So many times, l've sewn only a single layer of fabric, finding the bottom piece below the table as the slot diverted it away from the foot! I've since put tape over it, but must remove it when using machine's sleeve arm. Sigh.

QuiltE

My two latest duhhhh and oooops and yikes!!!!

Making placemats for our church bazaar.
Had fabric layered right sides together, twice so as to cut 4 at a time, totaling 8.
That worked well. Leave then together for the next step.
Next was to cut slashes in opposite corners (only two, not four).
Yup, sure enough ... 4 placemats have the slashes in the opposite corners to the other 4.
So much for a matched set of 8!

The other one ...

Cutting binding strips. Double layered the fabric, so I could cut two at once.
Sure enough, I did my count of what I needed 1-2-3-4-----
Then realized oh crap ... I forgot that should have been 2-4-6-8-----
Yup twice as many as needed!!! Ironically, this was the binding for those placemats above!!

Decided, what the heck, I might as well cut the rest of the fabric into strips
and have that piece of fabric gone with lots of binding ready for another time.
At least it's a dark green ... and a colour I commonly use/need.

But talk about a couple of DUHHHH and OOOOPS and YIKES moments !!!!

loisf

Too many to count. How about cutting all 840 logs for a triangular log cabin too small? I was able to re-cut them all and make the quilt a little smaller. The little black triangles in the first quilt should be bigger, but I had to cut them smaller to accommodate the shorter logs. They still look like snowflakes though.

Using the back of the fabric in the upper right hand block on the quilt bordered in green. One of the corners is lighter.

Mixing up two blocks near the bottom of this green and white quilt. In the last two quilts, I never noticed the error until the quilt was finished.

I'm also re-cutting hundreds of triangles for a quilt on which I used the wrong ruler. I just figured out how to salvage all those pieces. That's one of my winter projects. I'm sure there were more too.

SusieQOH

Probably the dumbest thing I've ever done in my sewing room.......
I was using my Accuquilt cutter. It has a plastic thing you put on top over the fabric before it passes. Well I grabbed my FAVORITE Quilter's Select ruler by mistake! I didn't realize until I heard a big CRACK!

GingerK

Just a little off topic--Loisf, would you please share the name of the pattern for your snowflake log cabin quilt. It is very intriguing.

And today--I was longarming a donation quilt for our day guild. Stupid (that's me) wanted to move the fabric just a tad, and stuck her finger too close to the foot. No, the needle didn't get me--the needle screw hammered my index finger at the base of the nail. It is really sore. Even worse is that this is not the first time I have been Stupid...

Onebyone

Quilting the quilt with the backing turned wrong side out. I kept seeing the pretty side face up on the on the hoop frame and it never registered to my brain it was wrong until halfway quilted.

scrappingfaye58

Oh, my..... I have done so many of these... my most frustrating was last year at my quilt retreat, when I was working on a "mature" UFO block of the month kit and cut the pieces too small... of course, the fabric is way out of date. I will use the "frankinbat" technique to piece it together, but arrrrggggggg

cashs_mom

I have way too many of them to list! lol

aashley333

Now I feel better. Never put my backing on backwards! lol. I have learned from my moments! Like, Keep fingers clear of the rotary cutter! And, use a stiletto to avoid sewing your index finger! Oh, and be sure to buy enough background material.

cashs_mom

Oh, yes! I've sewn thru my index finger, not once, but twice (some of us are slow learners)