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Originally Posted by PenniF
(Post 5398901)
ok....all these admissions....i just have to know....anyone else ever sewed your finger into the seam:rolleyes:.....just the tiniest little bit of skin, right by the nail...don't even feel it til you go to move your hand and you're stitched to the quilt? no blood, no pain.... thankfully i haven't done it in a long time .... ok dang ! now i've jinxed myself !!!
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been there, done that!
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Sounds like my day - decided to be nice and change the needle on my machine, can't remember when I last put a new one in, although I haven't quilted for nearly 6 months due to a ruptured disk in my neck, surgery and rehab. Anyhoo, put the new needle in, spent 15 minutes trying to thread needle, was doing the last bit of top stitching to a Bow Tucks handle, and yup - ran out of bobbin thread. Filled the bobbin again, then of course had to spend another 11 minutes re-threading the needle, etc.,etc., got a phone call - well at least I finished topstitching the handle - tomorrow is another day. LOL
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Those kind of days seem to happen more often as I get older.
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Well - ditto, ditto, ditto. My machine does "yell" at me when I leave the pressure foot up and try and sew; the icon on the setting window does flash if my thread breaks, but not when the needle isn't threaded, or when the bobbin runs out. Of course, the bobbin thread on my machine usually runs out a few inches before finishing what ever I was sewing - or just as I have made the perfect miter on one of the binding corners. You would think with all the technology someone out there would figure out how to build a dsm that would hold a larger bobbin and figure out how to put a light in the bobbin area so you could really see how much thread was left without having to take your fabric completely out from under the pressure foot. When I get to the point where I am having to undo/re-do whatever at the machine - I turn it off and walk away for awhile - usually to go and read for awhile (preferably with chocolate of some sort close to hand or a cup of coffee - or I do some hand work. Oh ya - if I drop a needle or a pin on the floor, DH's bare foot is usually the one that finds it. Kinda like he always got the bay leaf in his spagetti and meatballs!
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I'm so glad you had some chocolate on hand! Nothing solves problems like chocolate!!!
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sounds like something I would do. you started my day off with a good laugh, thanks and I will try not tr repeat what you did, as I have done before myself, many times
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ditto, ditto........
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Now that is funny! I have to admit I've done something similar but not with that many. Gave me a good chuckle this morning.
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Done that! Also sewed most of the first long strip on a 1600 in quilt without bobbin thread. Didn't even notice until I was almost at the end of that looooong seam!
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Been there, done that several times, lol. No wine for me, then it wouldn't get done.
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These stories gave me a chuckle because last night as I was frog stitching several hexes, because I had cut probably 100 5 inch hexes, had sewn several together, and THEN decided I didn't like that particular color, and started in again. Now to figure out what to do with those lovely hexes that are perfectly fine, but just not for this project. (Smacking forehead, duh!) What is that old saying, if you don't try something, you won't make mistakes! Guess we are trying to do something!
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Originally Posted by AFQSinc
(Post 5396346)
I have definitely been there! You know what the worst part is? The 1/4" seam is always perfect.
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That is something I would do..
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Yep, those times are frustrating.
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Are we related? Have done that more than once!
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oh dear...not laughing AT you, but WITH you I am sure....my recent motorcycle accident triggered the fibro brain fog this week...I can not hold a thought together long enough to walk 2 feet! Hope the rest of your sewing goes as planned!
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Originally Posted by PenniF
(Post 5396341)
It is such a RELIEF AND BLESSING to know that i'm not alone !!!!!!!!!:)
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Rule of thumb--ALWAYS keep chocolate near your machine. BTW, I think my machine has gone deaf. No matter what I say to it, or how loud, it just doesn't respond.
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Originally Posted by sandy l
(Post 5396281)
Put a new needle in, phone rang. Answered, had long conversation with niece. Came back to machine, pulled thread to back, lowered presser foot, and chain sewed 15 sets of 4 1/2" squares. Used the thread cutter and started to pull the squares back to cut apart. You all know where this is going don't you.. well, duh. I never re-threaded the needle. Said a few choice words, went and had some chocolate, then came back and threaded the needle and sewed 15 sets of 4 1/2" squares together again.:D
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Been there, done that. I've done with just changing thread. :)
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OMG, I think everyone's week has been going this way! lol Guess we can either blame it on the moon or the Olympics...maybe the heat? Think I'll give that chocolate a whirl and see if it helps ME! lol
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I have a large spool of cotton thread, and I fill two bobbins with it. I generally run out of needle thread first, then I fill another bobbin, and put the full one in the bobbin and use the used bobbin one for the needle thread. I never sew without bobbin thread this way. I hate to do that!! =)
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Been there, done that. Many times too. Thanks for the laugh
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Sounds SO familiar...thanks for the chuckle.
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Just goes to show, chocolate WORKS!
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That is so cool! Thanks for the laugh I needed that!!!!! Been there done that!
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who does things like that. LOL Thanks for the chuckle
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Another one is looking high and low for a missing piece to finally find it stuck to you someplace and it's really hard to see if it's on your backside!!!!!!!
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At least you can laugh about it. I just hate it when I am sewing away and find out that I'm not really sewing at all.
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