Or when you make a mistake, unsew it, and then proceed to make the same mistake again. Argh!!!

I am laughing and crying at the same time! I've done all these things many, many times! But sewing something wrong, ripping it out and sewing it wrong again! I can't count the number of times I've done that! Try making 8 cheerleading uniforms with 18 tricolor pleats!
What a job that was. In fact, I spent all the money I made on my first Pfaff, a 1471!

Bahahaha! This is hilarious - and most of this stuff happens to me all the time.

Stitch and B**** made me laugh my butt off...

bearisgrey - yep just about have it figured out when that phone rings and then when you can get back to it, you've forgotten what you figured.

My Viking has a low bobbin alarm, it stops and won't let me sew any more until I change it.

I sewed a whole line of 9 patch rows just like that. I had sewn some of them wrong, but it was okay it was only practice apparently. :lol: :roll:

Oh how I can relate to this one :roll:

you get all set up and ready for some free time to sew, you just get sat down and start sewing and your dh calls you? or the doorbell rings

or the cat pukes...

I have discovered the best way to take care of bird's nest's is a pair of barber shears. They nicely clip the threads without tearing a whole in the cloth.

By the way, I've done all of the above. Love this thread...

I've got another one for you -- I was doing the quilting on one of the quilts I'm making for Jan's soldiers and the backing was navy blue. Because there was quite a bit of red on the top, I decided to have blue in the bobbin and red in the needle. Wellllll, when it came time to put in a new bobbin, guess what I did? That's right, I put in RED and proceeded to stitch away. Didn't realize my mistake until THAT bobbin was empty!!! Now I'm ripping out the blue because I decided the red looked better!!!

This has been a hilarious "thread". Thanks for the belly laughs.

No that feeling and I have to be double quick or my little minx of a dog runs for it, she usually find it for me but I have to be quick to get it out of her mouth before she has a darned good chew.

Elle

ouch! so many of those have happened to me too! and yet we still pick it back up and start sewing again! lol

Now that is a b%@&*h

I have a machine that beeps when the is very low.

I hate it when I some how get a knot in the thread...just don't know how that happens....sneaky little quilting elves!

A neat trick I learned years ago. As you start to wind, after several turns, color about 12 " of the bobbin thread.

Glad to know I am not the only one who slips into an automatic frame of mind at times which a creates a problem just at the time I really should have been on break.

Oh, I just love this new subject. As for as the wandering bobbin is concerned, when I wind one, I wind a second one and leave it on the winder. If I loose the one I'm putting in the machine, I go to the second one and if I don't loose it, leave the wandering bobbin until the second one is empty. Saves some on the nerves, the back and the frustration of moving furniture while looking for the little culprit. I've even lost needles and with these steel ones a magnet won't pick them up, but sombody's butt will. LOL

I lost my needle last night...and we still haven't found it!

Or when you are in your easychair, hand-piecing to your heart's content, and you reach for your scissors but can't find them to save your soul. Then, when you carefully lay everything down and get up to search for the scissors they happily fall "off your shelf" where they have been nesting the whole time!!!

When thred knots around the machine needle...still haven't figured how that happens.

Or when you've stitched your project to the clothing you're wearing!

That is so funny!!!

OMG!!! All of these things have happened to me!!!!

I actually have a bobbin AWOL as I write - back in Ireland in my workroom!! I dropped it about two weeks ago and I CAN'T FIND IT ANYWHERE!!! The DH will of COURSE find it while I am away and say something smart about me not looking after my stuff!!!!!

When I was a little girl I used to lay out my dressmaking on the landing in our house - upstairs as I didn't have space in my Bedroom.

My Mother would come upstairs and remind me to remove ALL PINS from the carpet as my Father had only one leg and was in the habbit of hopping to the bathoom in the middle of the night....


The nights I would be awoken by a howl of agony as my Father 'found' the missing pin at some ungodly hour!!!!.............

I think they should invent a bobbin that is about three feet around so that I will change the thread when I WANT to.

Ow my gosh....This has got to be my biggest nightmare. I just don't think I could take the screaming from pain I would hear from my husband. This would continue for days because he's such a baby. But I love him anyway.

Oh, one more...how about when you are deep in thought as you sew and then realize the needle went through your finger tip!!! (still not sure how my finger got under the presser foot)

Mine was not too bad...have seen worse.

Jenna

I used to hear of people doing that and thought they were absolutely batsh@# and then a couple of weeks ago, after sewing for 34 years, the same thing happened to me. I suppose that's what I get for daydreaming when I'm supposed to be paying attention!

Crazy bobbins, dropped 1 three times trying wind it back up. I guess it thought it was a yo yo in training. Also broke the tip of the machine needle off in the overlay on my nail,saved my finger.
I call mine "Gremlins".

When you just put enough thread on your bobbin to make it to the end of you piece, however you now do not have enough thread for the top and the stores are all closed for some silly holiday?

Ouch!!

My floor must have a slight slope. If I'm quilting while sitting on the sofa and a spool of thread falls, it disappears and I know it's gone way under the sofa, which means getting a flashlight, moving the coffee table, and finding something flat enough to get under there. Hate it!!!

Oh my word did this thread make my day. I have had all this happen to me. I drop my bobbin and my sewing partner, my cat, immediately plays with it and there is thread all over the sewing room.

The worst thing that ever happened was I when I was cutting out fabric for a class I was taking the next day, way too late at night, and sliced the side of my finger off. My DH went down to Harbor Freight the next day and bought me glass suction handles for all my rulers. Now my fingers get nowhere near the edge of the ruler.

The worst part is that as soon as you realize it's happened you try to jump up in alarm and are firmly anchored to the machine by your pointer. So, there you are, flopping about with a sewing machine sprouted out the end of your hand trying to work up the courage to back the needle out. And, no, ladies, it's really not as painful as you'd think, just really unnerving.

How about when you are, on one of those RARE occasions, vacuuming around your sewing area and hear that telltale rattle that means you've sucked up a bobbin or other mysterious object, and then you have to decide if you want to dig around in the gross vac bag to see what it was and rescue it?

Oh YEAH!!!!

That is where my AWOL bobing will resurface!! I'm sure my DH will hoover while I am away!!!

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