Or when the needle decides to break and you go through 4 needles in a row because you forgot how the needle fits into the machine -- you needed to turn the needle 1/4 turn to fit completely into the hole it belongs in???

LMAO I just did that tonight. I dont have a significant other even worse that just leaves me to step or sit on it. I was laffing saying i need a huge magnet to find it. I hate when the bobbins go wild too. I got a quilting magazine and i was shocked to see they FINALLY make a bobbin buddy that goes over the thread part of the bobbin so the thread doesnt go wild. Ok but thats for storage and doesnt count when loading the bobbin lol. Or when u have every color of thread under the sun ..'cept when u need to mend something ad u cant find the right color anywhere knowing u have it,,,,,, somewhere lol

Don't you hate when you buy more fabric than the pattern requires for insurance just to find out that the pattern has cutting errors? And then to make matters worse, you run out of fabric and there is no more at the large discount store?

Im waiting for when we can just put another spool of thread in place of a bobbin. Why havent they done that yet??? They can computerize a sewing machine and make it do miracles but not run out of thread lol

I thought that only happened to me!

My favorite grip is when I'm reading a tip for sewing, then at the bottom there is a price for a book explaining this method. Sure we all need a living, but get out, let us go to the store and pick our own books. I've ordered books with such explanation and when received, nothing I could use.

This is a great idea, I'll have to remember it, or I hope I remember it. Thanks!!!

Or when you miss a flower head pin and the dog eats it without you knowing it until he gets sick, needs an operation and curtails your fabric budget for quite a while. He's fine now and I keep very close tabs on all things metal.

My new 830 bernina warns me several times that there is only so much thread left on the bobbin, it is great . :thumbup:

I THOUGHT about buying the last yard on the bolt - and didn't think I needed it - and then when I realized I did need it - there is no more fabric like that to be found within a 50 mile radius

On the subject of pleats in the back of your fabric. I'm a novice quilter and every time I'm done sewing, I find a tuck or pleat on the backside no matter how careful I try to be with my layering,
smoothing, matching, pinning etc. What am I doing wrong?

My fav peeve is screwy tension when putting on the binding. Got binding all done only to have to unsew, repin and resew and the tension is still wonky. I also love having my quilt inspector, my avatar, helping me sew by laying on the fabric, project or some vital piece that I need then and not later. Love this topic. :) He loves to help me cut fabric, too.

Yo yo in training. This is too good! Thanks for the laugh.

Oh my gosh, my side hurts from laughing so much! Is your dog by any chance named Skeeter? If it's not the same dog, he has a clone who lives with me.

Gotta admit, sewTinker, that has NEVER happened to me, but I wish I'd been at the mapco to see your mad dash to the potty. I'd probably pee in my pants at that sight. I've got to wipe my eyes now!

what is worse is to discover the strip you have is 2.25 and you really need just one more 2.5 square and the fabric is gone and no one else has it in their stash --every shade but one that will work. :roll:

Or when your cat decides to pull your nicely stacked fabric to make a comfy bed...

My big booper yesterday was to forget to pull the bobbin thread to the top, so I had a huge tangle on the back of a baby quilt I was quilting the very last bear on. Took an extra hour and I still have to bind it

Im waiting for when we can just put another spool of thread in place of a bobbin. Why havent they done that yet??? They can computerize a sewing machine and make it do miracles but not run out of thread lol[/quote]

There is a machine just like that. Its called the National two spool. Remember the little wooden spools of thread?
That's what it uses for a bobbin. I don't know why they stopped making them. I think it was a wonderful idea!!
Here's a link to learn all about it.

http://www.mckennalinn.com/TwoSpool.html

I love this thread. I am still laughing and going "yah, I know how that is". It is so nice to know that you are not the only one to make these kind of boo-boos. I've done most of them.

There is a machine just like that. Its called the National two spool. Remember the little wooden spools of thread?
That's what it uses for a bobbin. I don't know why they stopped making them. I think it was a wonderful idea!!
Here's a link to learn all about it.

http://www.mckennalinn.com/TwoSpool.html[/quote]

Love this site. Love the machine. Why can't some sewing machine company make one like that now?

or when I had a quilt - almost complete - hanging over the ironing board - and one of the cats decided to climb up on it - and toreit in a couple of places

:oops:
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


Will you stop looking over my shoulder already!!! :lol:
I just did that this week!

A few replies back "tjradj" wrote about when you KNOW you cut the right number of blocks but are one short. I just had that happen to me 15 minutes ago. The missing one will turn up later tonight after I've cut another one.

I machine quilted a block from another quilt to the center of the backing of a twin size quilt....that block's still there. :oops: :lol: :roll:

WilliP: When I was ironing a bunch of Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks my mother hand-pieced back in 1930, I came across a couple that had one of the hexagons which had been pieced -- in otherwords, she didn't have a large enough piece for the hexagon, so she used scraps of the same fabric and pieced them together to have a large enough piece! It was done so well that from 2 feet away you could hardly see the seam.

Or you drop a needle that is threaded and you still can't find it. You go to church on Sunday morning and when you come back the thread is hanging out your cat's mouth. This happened to our cat several years ago and fortunately the vet was able to get it back out without surgery. Lucky the string was hanging out of his mouth or we would not have known about it.

Or when you come to the end of a seam and the machine won't stop - because the foot control slipped under the foot of the table and it's holding it down - at full speed!

:lol::lol:...the visual in my head is too funny of that one tjradj!

Before I got my Pfaff fixed it used to do that all on its own with no assistance. EEEEKK!!!!!!!!! I'd be stipple quilting and all of a sudden it would start sewing at top speed and the only way to shut it off was to turn it off.
Sewing/quilting shouldn't be quite that exciting! :shock:
I found out that the machine wasn't equipped with the correct pedal. My Pfaff dealer who sold me the machine wasn't being very helpful, they kept telling me I was doing something wrong. :x I am the 2nd owner.

Another one is when you count your rows several times to make sure you have them all and just when you think you have them them all done you come up 1 whole row short. Not funny because its a stack and whack,but what else can you do but start from the beginning again. LOL

It is late but I AM very happy tonight that I am not the only onre that has castrophies every day of our lives, makes me feel good that I have spent a lot of time stitch rippping , then starting over for a small 24x36 patchwork paint chip challenge in only 2 colors for a challenge in our local quilting guild, but I am ready for a sashing and border , did the initial stitching on a newly bought 221 replica, now I am going to use my new 830 to add sashing and border for it , I love all the replys to the forum , some I have done ,some I haven,t ,but it keeps all of us on our toes, and gives us lots of giggles :XD: :thumbup:

ROFL

When I loose needle and thread, later to find the thread dangeling from our dogs rear_end . He seemed unaffected by this until I went to remove it. Thank God it had the thread attatched or we would have never found it . Until it was to late. Dog is fine needle and thread were disgarded.

I have one of those funky wooden back scratchers. It can retrieve those pesky bobbins with ease (most times). :lol:

Quilt4joy...thats a really interesting avatar that you have...one of yours?

Yes. It's kingsize. I like your avatar too.

Glad I'm not the only one these things happen to. What a relief. I thought I was the biggest klutz.

dontcha hate it is when your trying to be supermom to your 2 yo when he breaks his mickey mouse ears.I grab my machine put it on the bed and proceed to sew. Only to have the machine fall forward and my finger sewn instead of the elastic on the ears. Gets better I am in my jammies no bra hair a mess (not the nice jammies the holes and rags jammies) I cannot back the needle out it is stuck husband at work says call 911 I did and here they come 8 handsome men (calendar handsome)in my house and me looking like I came out of the rags magazine trying to hide the fact that the girls are down to my knees. They laughing the whole time trying to figure out how I could have done this me trying to find them the right tools to cut the needle. Then they have to pull it out. Thank God I didn't pass out!!

nothing like reaping something out to go back and redo it in the exact same way you just ripped out, once is bad but i did it three times in one day. Went and read a book!!!!