kathbug

Ripping out the same stitches over and over again to realize they were right to begin with how frustrating !!!!!! Learned not to work on stuff when I am tired or in pain ! Lol

quilttiger

This brings back a memory from many years ago. At that time I was a "Miss Know It All" and rebellious teenager. My grandmother was staying with us a couple days. She was watching me pin sleeves into the armholes of a blouse. I stitched them in, only to find out I had put in the sleeves UPWARD. My grandmother quietly said she knew what I was doing but did not tell me, figuring I would not listen to her anyway. She was right and it was a good learning experience, smile.

oldpiglady

Now That's funny!!

oldpiglady

Actually, had one happen to me today. Yesterday, had gone on a sew day with my guild. We sewed a couple of hours. Put machine into carry case and came home. During the night I woke up and thought I would finish project. Machine would not stitch. I could hear it humming and the wheel was spinning but the needle would not go up and down. Frustrated, I took it apart and cleaned out all the fuzz around bobbin. Put it back together. Nothing. I sat there staring at it for about a minute. Then realized when I had put it into carrying case I had slid the bobbin winding lever over and the clutch was not engaging. Moral: Stay in bed.

plugger

the other week my dad asked me to sew on a button
i quickly got to it knowing it was his favorite shirt(he is 85 yrs old)
the next day when he put it on the button i sew was sewn on the inside
not the outside. He thought it was a joke
days later he told me he found my joke funny
after telling me what i did he then told me he wore it
that way and no one said a thing
i quickly fixed it

newbee

On one of my early baby quilts I sewed one panel--a quarter of the entire quilt--of a trip around the world 180 degrees from what it should have been. When I was quilting the quilt, the dominant fabrics were in diamonds as they were supposed to be. But when I started to quilt the non-dominant colors, they made a rectangle, not a diamond pattern!! I finally noticed that one of the four corner blocks was the wrong color. I finished the quilt and called it a geometry puzzle. The people I gave it to loved it so much they hung it on their baby room wall.

beadywoman

Was making a "Stitch and Slash" wallhanging and when it came time to do the free-motion sewing, I managed to get part of the slashed fabric stitched to my free-motion foot! LOL Also managed to sew some direction sheets to the back of another wallhanging. Lesson to self - DO NOT put anything on the extension table EXCEPT what you are actually sewing! Hubby and I got a good laugh out of that one!

IBQLTN

Once had the bright idea of sewing rag quilt blocks together with my zipper foot because I could get SOOOO close to the batting ... well there was also no protection with the needle to the right of the foot and sewed through my finger!!

Was taking a class a convention once when we were trying to hurry through something because we were running out of time. Somehow instead of sewing one handle on one piece and another on the other piece I sewed the handle front to back. Looked sort of like suspenders! Needless to say, I never finished that bag!

MadQuilter

I trimmed the LAST block for a top to which I had NO fabric left and I was in a hurry. BAD combination. Of course, I cut into other finished blocks that were laying on the cutting mat. Can't remember how I solved that one.

Then I was the only participant in a bag class (to test out a new machine) who had the button holes going the wrong direction.

My biggy is the (still unfinished) Lone Star. Instead of radiating out of the center, mine radiate into the point. I still don't know how I did that.

running1

Oh.. thank you all for the great laughs!! I don't have embarrassing quilt stories on myself... but there are plenty of embarrassing school teaching moments... so just give me time and I'll embarrass myself with quilting, too... I'll let you know!!

(I needed some laughter today!!! Thank you, quilting friends!!!!!)