Sometimes I just have to shake my head!
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Sometimes I just have to shake my head!
Today a young mother at our church returned a baby quilt to me so I could add the baby's name to the label. They had decided not to reveal the name of the baby until he was born so I could not put that on the label when I gave her the quilt at the baby shower. Well... after writing his name in today, I felt lumps under the label. Wondering and hoping the lump was under the label and not in the quilt itself, I cut away two edges of the label and, lo and behold, there was blue painter's tape wadded up. I forgot to remove the tape that I used to write evenly on the label and it had wadded up in laundering. So glad I got the quilt back. I don't know if the mother had noticed the lumps or not. I sure did and was quick to correct the problem. Anyone else do silly things too?
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The last baby quilt I made had embroidered blocks with sashing and 2 borders, the outer border is mitered. It wasn't until I had the whole top finished and up on the design wall so I could look at it and decide how to quilt it that I discovered one block is upside down. When I told the mother about it she just laughed and said, "that's so you!" so I left it in.
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Oh, the odd things that happen to us when we are trying to finish a 'perfect' give. Yesterday I was using fleece to back a quilt for a grandson. The fleece had shifted a couple of inches on one edge. Now I have a time consuming project ahead of me. These little things aren't funny, are they? Now, to find the ripper!
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my niece and her husband found a pin in a quilt that I gave their little girl! They said that they didn't find for about a year so I must have had it buried pretty well I felt bad, but they said they got it out.... all but the head of the pin
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i found a corsage pin that I used long arming in a quilt after I pulled it off the frame--thankfully it was my own and just opening up the basting on the edge made it possible to get out--I've been real careful since!
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Oh honey, I have a good one for you!
When my boys were little I had tons of pants to hem.
Sent one son to school with pants pinned at the hems- never noticed it till the teacher sent him home at the end of the day with a bag of pins!
I was so embarrassed but we laugh about it now!!!
When my boys were little I had tons of pants to hem.
Sent one son to school with pants pinned at the hems- never noticed it till the teacher sent him home at the end of the day with a bag of pins!
I was so embarrassed but we laugh about it now!!!
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