Weekend Project #2 in the Triumphs and Tragedies Series
07-08-2013, 11:45 AM
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Weekend Project #2 in the Triumphs and Tragedies Series
In a continuing series of quilting triumphs and tragedies ... this one falls into the tragedies category.
A lovely little pieced table runner - backed with some frightening fabric sent by a friend with a great sense of humor - started out well enough. I merrily created whimsical doodle FMQ flowers and then set it aside until this weekend when I decided to bind it.
Well ... mama mia!
There was some unpleasantness going on on the underside. So I decided to stitch some yo yos over the offending areas. 
Oops! They made horrid lumps when you turned it over. Well, I had no option but to stitch the livin' daylights out of them.
Time for the binding. La la la la la ... all going swimmingly well
Stitched it on the back, flipped it to the front, zoooooom! all stitched down.
Then while snipping loose threads I found that some of the binding didn't quite cover everything.
Well, I wasn't going to stop at this point.
This was a battle to the finish between me that that little so and so of a table runner. So I found a nice dense stitch on my sewing machine and whammed the heck out of that tell tale edge.
In the realm of winners and losers of the quilting world, there were no winners here. Well, maybe I was the winner after all since it done!
Not fun, but done! 
Now ... what to do with the darn thing? I think I have some room in the back of the linen closet ...
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A lovely little pieced table runner - backed with some frightening fabric sent by a friend with a great sense of humor - started out well enough. I merrily created whimsical doodle FMQ flowers and then set it aside until this weekend when I decided to bind it.
Well ... mama mia!
There was some unpleasantness going on on the underside. So I decided to stitch some yo yos over the offending areas. Oops! They made horrid lumps when you turned it over. Well, I had no option but to stitch the livin' daylights out of them.
Time for the binding. La la la la la ... all going swimmingly well
Stitched it on the back, flipped it to the front, zoooooom! all stitched down. Then while snipping loose threads I found that some of the binding didn't quite cover everything.
Well, I wasn't going to stop at this point.
This was a battle to the finish between me that that little so and so of a table runner. So I found a nice dense stitch on my sewing machine and whammed the heck out of that tell tale edge.
In the realm of winners and losers of the quilting world, there were no winners here. Well, maybe I was the winner after all since it done!
Not fun, but done! Now ... what to do with the darn thing? I think I have some room in the back of the linen closet ...
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07-08-2013, 12:40 PM
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Some projects are doomed from the start. I just wish I knew which ones they were before wasting fabric. It's a pretty table runner and send it to a non-quilting friend if it is offending you. My non-quilting friends (victims) think my failures are wonderful.
07-08-2013, 01:30 PM
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SO great to know others have those days, too!
Sometimes I just have to release tension by shouting at whatever it is that's mucking things up...."You're not the boss of ME! I'm in charge here whether YOU like it or not. Dammit!!"
Of course, then I feel "so much better" for acting like a fool in the privacy of my house with an animate object......but, hey.... I usually end up stomping away, but you stayed and defeated the sucker; good for you!!
Jan in VA
Sometimes I just have to release tension by shouting at whatever it is that's mucking things up...."You're not the boss of ME! I'm in charge here whether YOU like it or not. Dammit!!"
Of course, then I feel "so much better" for acting like a fool in the privacy of my house with an animate object......but, hey.... I usually end up stomping away, but you stayed and defeated the sucker; good for you!! Jan in VA
07-08-2013, 01:44 PM
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I can empathise with you. I call it "flying by the seat of my pants". It is funny (in hind sight) though when you think how sooo much can go wrong time after time on one project, you feel like throwing it in the bin, but no, soldier on, the "not going to be beaten or waste all that fabric" syndrome kicks in. Well done for overcoming all the problems. You will remember that project for sure.
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