The worst mistake you ever made{quilting}?
03-07-2011, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by jpthequilter
Originally Posted by Lucky Patsy's "Mom"
I made an Irish Chain once, and discovered AFTER cutting all my strips, sewing them all together, slicing them up the other way and sewing the slices into blocks- that I didn't have a quarter inch seam! All of my block A's were a different size than my block B's!
And just yesterday I left a bag full of fabric I had been using on the floor next to the chair I had been sitting in, and the next morning the cat used it as a litter box! Arghhh!!!
And just yesterday I left a bag full of fabric I had been using on the floor next to the chair I had been sitting in, and the next morning the cat used it as a litter box! Arghhh!!!
03-07-2011, 03:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Rumbols
My biggest one was buying fabric for two different projects and placing them in separate bags with the pattern and stored them. It has been 7 years and I am still looking for them. LOL
03-07-2011, 03:54 PM
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Heres my story and I really really couldnt tell you how MAD I WAS at myself let alone how mad my husband was at me for doing this.
I used to make him shirts...short sleeves, pockets, buttons and buttonholes AND COLLARS. Only thing I had ever made sewing and I eventually made him 45 shirts and he wore every single one of them at least one time. He would pick out the fabric so he couldn't complain he didn't like the fabric I chose for them.
So this one time, we had a little bit of extra money so to speak and my husband asked me to make him some more shirts and so I agreed to it. We always bought Walmart fabric for $2.00 a yard that way if he didn't like them when they were done, it was no real big money loss but he always liked them or so he said and he knew to have them cut exactly 2 1/2 yards of fabric and he learned NOT TO BUY DIMENSIONAL fabric quite fast. LOL. So we bought enough fabric that I could make him 5 new shirts and instead of me cutting them one by one, I thought I would cut all of them out at the same time (one shirt at a time though) and then I would sew them all at the same time kind of like an assembly line. Well I got all of them cut out and went to sew the sleeves onto this particular shirt and I couldnt find them. Hmm that was odd, I KNOW I CUT THEM ALL OUT. And I had seperated the front pieces from the back pieces to make it easier for me. Anyways, I searched high and low for them stupid sleeves and never did find them till later on...but, I saw the BACK piece of this darn shirt and thought, oh I didn't cut them out yet. So I lay the fabric out, pin my pattern on and I CUT!!!!! All of a sudden, I had this really bad feeling that I just SCREWED UP!!! I move the shirts that I already had sewn together and guess what I found....THE SLEEVES. I was sooooooo mad at myself, husband was even madder at me for ruining HIS SHIRT. Geez, its not as if it was YOURS YET. LOL. So we go back to walmart to HOPEFULLY get some more to make the back piece with and guess what? THEY WERE TOTALLY OUT. I was sooo heart broken after that that it was a long long long time before I cut anymore shirts for him out assembly line. I laugh at it now because it is really funny but at the time it wasn't. I even offered to let HIM SLEEP on the couch. But he didn't take me up on that. So we all live and learn by our stupid mistakes. (shhh dont tell him, I didn't really like that stupid fabric anyways it was a off white with really pale lighthouses on it)
I used to make him shirts...short sleeves, pockets, buttons and buttonholes AND COLLARS. Only thing I had ever made sewing and I eventually made him 45 shirts and he wore every single one of them at least one time. He would pick out the fabric so he couldn't complain he didn't like the fabric I chose for them.
So this one time, we had a little bit of extra money so to speak and my husband asked me to make him some more shirts and so I agreed to it. We always bought Walmart fabric for $2.00 a yard that way if he didn't like them when they were done, it was no real big money loss but he always liked them or so he said and he knew to have them cut exactly 2 1/2 yards of fabric and he learned NOT TO BUY DIMENSIONAL fabric quite fast. LOL. So we bought enough fabric that I could make him 5 new shirts and instead of me cutting them one by one, I thought I would cut all of them out at the same time (one shirt at a time though) and then I would sew them all at the same time kind of like an assembly line. Well I got all of them cut out and went to sew the sleeves onto this particular shirt and I couldnt find them. Hmm that was odd, I KNOW I CUT THEM ALL OUT. And I had seperated the front pieces from the back pieces to make it easier for me. Anyways, I searched high and low for them stupid sleeves and never did find them till later on...but, I saw the BACK piece of this darn shirt and thought, oh I didn't cut them out yet. So I lay the fabric out, pin my pattern on and I CUT!!!!! All of a sudden, I had this really bad feeling that I just SCREWED UP!!! I move the shirts that I already had sewn together and guess what I found....THE SLEEVES. I was sooooooo mad at myself, husband was even madder at me for ruining HIS SHIRT. Geez, its not as if it was YOURS YET. LOL. So we go back to walmart to HOPEFULLY get some more to make the back piece with and guess what? THEY WERE TOTALLY OUT. I was sooo heart broken after that that it was a long long long time before I cut anymore shirts for him out assembly line. I laugh at it now because it is really funny but at the time it wasn't. I even offered to let HIM SLEEP on the couch. But he didn't take me up on that. So we all live and learn by our stupid mistakes. (shhh dont tell him, I didn't really like that stupid fabric anyways it was a off white with really pale lighthouses on it)
03-07-2011, 03:57 PM
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Originally Posted by penski
just a hour ago i was working on a quilt and for some stupid reason i cut a big hole in my backing !!!and it has already been quilted !!! i dont know where my mind was while i had scissors in my hand
03-07-2011, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by quilt crazee
Originally Posted by CoriAmD
Originally Posted by kwhite
I have sewn my clothes to a quilt. Now I sew int he nude!!
03-07-2011, 04:36 PM
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Thankful that it was a color you didnt like!!!I sewed my hubby a shirt when we first got married{34 and counting} because he bought me the machine.I was not to good with men sizes. It was little extra large. I guess I thought I married a much bigger man.He did wear ot once.But was very happy that I found a new project like kids clothes.Thank you for reminding me.
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03-07-2011, 07:52 PM
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I cut out two shirts for the grandsons just alike and when I went to sew them up, one of the sleeves was missing. I looked high and low for them and to this day they never appeared. So I put one sleeve out of a coordinating fabric and a coordinating pocket and collar and they looked real cute. They wore the shirts proudly and never knew that they were supposed to be all one fabric. If you can fix it, don't tell!
03-08-2011, 07:15 AM
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You have been stitching about the same way for many, many quilts, therefore, your mind wanders as you are stitching. You are so experienced nothing can go wrong. Right!!! Girls, love yourselves and rip out your mistakes and have a good, good laugh! Love, Quilting Joan
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