About 3 feet in front of my feet & behind something completely out of range from where it should be. This has happened to me a lot lately where I'd drop something & it seemed to just vanish. May never find it.

I've been AWOL from quilting (and the Board) for almost a year. I know! but life got in the way. Anyway, I pulled out a scrappy Jacob's Ladder top I started a year ago that was all in rows and ready to be sewn. Got my rows sewn and started on borders. Tension problems! Cleaned everything, put in a new needle and literally limped along by adjusting the tension far from the default. Got the last border done, packed up the machine and off to the repairman for servicing. Should have it back by next week, so it's not so bad. We need to add overdue for servicing to the list, LOL. BTW, it's good to be sewing again and great to back to the board.

After a few times of dropsey I got a magnetic pin dish. Every thing else goes for me too.

There are a lot of dontcha just hate it in my quilting room.

LOL

I didn't have to nerve to back out the needle, so I just took the needle out of the machine and had DH take it out for me! Mine was not too painful because it was close to the tip of my finger, but I have seen some that are right in the center, and I imagine that had to hurt...at least after the fact.

Good evening, this would be something I would do. How very frustrating.
I sure had a good laugh though. So very funny when it happens to someone else. ggggg!
My solution would be that you keep the darn tablecloth. After all you didn't go for it, it just happened to be there in you way......

Still laughing......

Sweet Cheeks :lol:

THIS MADE ME DOUBLE OVER LAUGHING!!!!
I"M SURE IT WASN'T FUNNY AT THE TIME, BUT....... :lol:

Yep, that just happened to me today as I was trying to insert the bobbin on my Juki, then I had to search for it as it hid under the quilt I was trying to quilt.

After the initial major embarrassment :oops: and apologies, we all had a great laugh over it. Thank goodness the tablecloth wasn't a family heirloom or anything like that!!

Too bad it doesn't work for plastic bobbins.
I have linoleum in the dining room where my Horn cabinet is and wood flooring in where the treadles are; so anything I drop on the floor goes in a totally unexpected direction.
:shock:

OR WHEN YOU ARE ON A ROLL SEWING AND THE THREAD RUNS OUT ! OR THE CAT DECIDES TO JUMP ON YOUR LAP, THEREFORE STARTLES YOU & YOU KNOCK FABRIC, PINS OFF THE TABLE!!

Jenna[/quote]
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.[/quote]

It's not so much the needle going INTO the finger - it's getting the needle OUT of the finger - - -[/quote]

During a quilting class my friend sewed into her finger, I had a hard time getting the needle out of her finger. EEEW
She was more worried about bleeding on her fabrics.
:shock: :( :lol:

ONE MORE THING.....PINING YOUR QUILT TOP TO THE CARPET ?

O U C H..........TO THE NEEDLE IN THE FINGER. UGH !!

I'm thrilled that my dogs all stay on the floor where they belong!!!! :lol:

when you go and iron white material and the iron and all of a sudden the water comes out rusty...my iron isn't even old....how the heck do I prevent that or do I have to buy a new iron...ugggh...day of what the heck...

I sew in a small cubby downstairs and the potty is upstairs . and it never fells as soon as I get going good Potty time :(

toooo funny. Happens to me too :lol:

Or when you can't find your seam ripper and you carefully take out each stitch, spending ten times the amount of time you would normally spend if you had the ripper... only to find that when you get up, it was in your lap the entire time! (THAT'S when it's time to go eat chocolate!!)

doncha just hate it when you're handsewing on a road trip and your husband At Last pulls into a gas station and you really gotta Go! and you realize you have embroidered your cute little redwork patch to your slacks and you really gotta Go! and there's no time to undo the stitching (because you really gotta Go!) and so you run into the mapco with the upsidedown redwork lady now the focal point of your outfit? heh-heh...

omg that is funny

been there and done most of the above

Been there done that LOL

Or when you chain sew and find out the bobbin ran out half way through the chain while you were merrily sewing away.

Or drop the small pieces of fabric all over the floor that you have just placed in order for your quilt!!

dont you just hate it when you are sewing large seam to finish, get to the end, and you ran out of bobbin 20 miles back-lol

or when you have great plans for the day, and dh walks in screwing up your nerves and your thought plan to where you are shaking, unable to sew, and have to go to bed, only to wake up mad?

so you cut it off, put it back on the same way---cut it off again--then get to the end & are two inches short !

Let go of the thread! Let go of the thread!

I'm so glad to know that thiss happens to others, I call it a Half-himmers day. LOL

oh yes!!! or when the thread is in knots on the back of your fabric and you didn't notice it until the very end

don't you just hate it when you spend hours cutting out the exact number of blocks you need and then sew them together and find you are one block short so you spend hours searching everywhere because you know you cut out enough and then discover you actually sewed two together as one

lol!!! I haven't done that yet, but did make a beautiful (to me )wallhanging, and after it was all done (I mean totally) I found that I had put one block in backwards...

Made me laugh outloud !! Tooo many times I just gotta go ... I can really relate to this one!

doncha hate it when you just want to trim that one block real quick and afterwards you realize that you had it laying on top of another piece which now has a hole in it (or a corner missing)?

Or when you sew a block together and discover you put the wrong side on the top - take it out and finish it then discover it wasn't the top at all but the center panel ends put on backwards. 3rd time was the charm. So many of these I have done. Soooo glad we are not alone!!!!!!!!!

My worst was when my dog was a puppy. I was chain sewing little nine patches together. My aunt had cut these squares for me when I was eight and I carried them with me through all our moves, children, etc. So I'm chain sewing these vintage squares of fabric in a long line, only to find when I'm done that the puppy was under the sewing table chewing on the squares as they came down...

The dog actually made it to grow up! And now it only eats little snippets of fabric from the floor.

or when you know fully well to cut the fabric 2.5 inches and you cut it 2.25 and then wonder why things are not fitting together.

good idea

how come when I read this post I think they're funny but when it happens to me it's not funny?

I am ready for bed but I am rolf, this is amazing how many things can go wrong ,but we laugh it off later in the day or as we read other callamities from all of you