What is the silliest thing you did while quilting?
#71
Originally Posted by BlueChicken
Originally Posted by kwhite
I have sewed the clothes I was wearing to the project.
I'm sorry.... but I laughed so hard coke nearly came out my nose when I read this! LOL
I can imagine how embarassing that would be!
My worst (so far) is sewing a pile of about 30 or 40 hst, chain piecing, one after the other, the whole lot of them, then discovering the bobbin ran out halfway down the first one.
#74
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Originally Posted by tammyg
I have to ask this because I cant figure it out and I am sure once you tell me what this stands for I am going to feel pretty silly, but here goes....what dose "hst" stand for? I know its something simple, I can feel it...lol :oops: :P :roll:
QST - quarter square triangles - four of these make a square -
The HST and QST are the same shape - a 45, 45, and 90 degree triangle.
The difference is - the straight of grain is along the long edge on the QST
- and the HST long edge is on the bias
Clear as mud?
#75
Originally Posted by bearisgray
Originally Posted by tammyg
I have to ask this because I cant figure it out and I am sure once you tell me what this stands for I am going to feel pretty silly, but here goes....what dose "hst" stand for? I know its something simple, I can feel it...lol :oops: :P :roll:
QST - quarter square triangles - four of these make a square -
The HST and QST are the same shape - a 45, 45, and 90 degree triangle.
The difference is - the straight of grain is along the long edge on the QST
- and the HST long edge is on the bias
Clear as mud?
tammy g
#76
I was machine quilting my oldest son's eagle quilt and sewed my finger to the quilt. The needle bent in my machine and I had to take a pair of wire cutters I so happen to have near and cut the needle into to release my finger, my youngest son came on the house while I was stuck and saw me, he ran out of the house leaving me to get free on my own. :roll: I pulled batting out of my finger for a few minutes :lol:
#77
Originally Posted by kpc
I was machine quilting my oldest son's eagle quilt and sewed my finger to the quilt. The needle bent in my machine and I had to take a pair of wire cutters I so happen to have near and cut the needle into to release my finger, my youngest son came on the house while I was stuck and saw me, he ran out of the house leaving me to get free on my own. :roll: I pulled batting out of my finger for a few minutes :lol:
#78
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I've laughed all the way through this thread...but my fingers, knees and well..other parts are all feeling sympathy pain! I know from experience just how much also...you know how you pull up your bobbin thread from the back when you are quilting...well, I was doing that at the end of a run so I could cut the bobbin thread and I stuck my finger directly into the spot where the needle went down. DUH.....sewing injury...and people ask how in the world... :oops:
#79
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Join Date: Oct 2008
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More mis-sewn blocks (yes, even same one 2 or 3 x) than I care to admit..
One rotary cutter accident, couldn't believe it as I am extremely careful. Wouldn't have believed it except for blood all over - while finger was still in shock and before pain set in.
While finishing a quilt for my niece, I was using a pair of applique scissors instead of a seam ripper to take out a part of the quilting I wasn't happy with. Cut into the flipping top, leaving about a 1/2" cut.
Most recently: Couldn't figure out why machine was balking. Yes, I was sewing through many layers on my Professional Tote, but still... Oh, what's that? My beautiful purple cutting mat had been picked up with the fabric and I'd sewn several stitches through it. Drat!!
Still, I think Bearisgray wins, not once but twice over!
One rotary cutter accident, couldn't believe it as I am extremely careful. Wouldn't have believed it except for blood all over - while finger was still in shock and before pain set in.
While finishing a quilt for my niece, I was using a pair of applique scissors instead of a seam ripper to take out a part of the quilting I wasn't happy with. Cut into the flipping top, leaving about a 1/2" cut.
Most recently: Couldn't figure out why machine was balking. Yes, I was sewing through many layers on my Professional Tote, but still... Oh, what's that? My beautiful purple cutting mat had been picked up with the fabric and I'd sewn several stitches through it. Drat!!
Still, I think Bearisgray wins, not once but twice over!
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