Quilt Police are knocking at my door
12-20-2010, 06:54 AM
#33
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: near San Antonio
Posts: 138
Well, at least if they're going after YOU, they can't come after ME! I was listening for sirens for a week after I finished my dad's Xmas prezzie! That binding was so rigged I'm surprised it didn't start shooting oil out of it!
12-20-2010, 07:28 AM
#34
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Illinois & Wisconsin
Posts: 824
Well, that is a story to tell. Just to make you feel better, I will tell you my story. I decided to make my 5-year old great granddaughter a cape for her birthday (12/17). She loves to dress up etc. I bought a beautiful shiny pink polyester satin and then a tinker bell fab for the lining and off I went with my $25.00 purchase. Oh, yeah!!! Got home and started cutting. Now I have been sewing for 55 years of my 72. Got the fab cut and realized that I had cut the pieces out incorrectly. The satin. So I dug through my stash and found a beautiful pink fleece and merrilly went on my way. Wouldn't you know it! I cut it incorrectly too. One piece I used was for the lining. Since when do they give you a separate pattern for the lining. Oh, well! I through out over $30.00 worth of fabric and ordered a cape on line that cost me over $50.00 for the cape and express delivery. Oh, man was I disgusted with myself. Experience and practice does not always make a great finished project. Hope you feel better now. I do. Thanks for letting me confess my ignorance. Oh, no! I hear the sirens now.
12-20-2010, 07:36 AM
#35
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central PA
Posts: 5,573
Originally Posted by stitchofclass2
Well, that is a story to tell. Just to make you feel better, I will tell you my story. I decided to make my 5-year old great granddaughter a cape for her birthday (12/17). She loves to dress up etc. I bought a beautiful shiny pink polyester satin and then a tinker bell fab for the lining and off I went with my $25.00 purchase. Oh, yeah!!! Got home and started cutting. Now I have been sewing for 55 years of my 72. Got the fab cut and realized that I had cut the pieces out incorrectly. The satin. So I dug through my stash and found a beautiful pink fleece and merrilly went on my way. Wouldn't you know it! I cut it incorrectly too. One piece I used was for the lining. Since when do they give you a separate pattern for the lining. Oh, well! I through out over $30.00 worth of fabric and ordered a cape on line that cost me over $50.00 for the cape and express delivery. Oh, man was I disgusted with myself. Experience and practice does not always make a great finished project. Hope you feel better now. I do. Thanks for letting me confess my ignorance. Oh, no! I hear the sirens now.
Seriously, I'll bet that little one will be so please with her cape. (And just think of the accessories you can make with the fabric that you cut wrong...a satin trimmed skirt, a little handbag...all sorts of things. And if she is anything like my youngest DD was (and still is, come to think of it) she loves to accessorize!
12-20-2010, 08:08 AM
#36
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 127
Originally Posted by stitchofclass2
Well, that is a story to tell. Just to make you feel better, I will tell you my story. I decided to make my 5-year old great granddaughter a cape for her birthday (12/17). She loves to dress up etc. I bought a beautiful shiny pink polyester satin and then a tinker bell fab for the lining and off I went with my $25.00 purchase. Oh, yeah!!! Got home and started cutting. Now I have been sewing for 55 years of my 72. Got the fab cut and realized that I had cut the pieces out incorrectly. The satin. So I dug through my stash and found a beautiful pink fleece and merrilly went on my way. Wouldn't you know it! I cut it incorrectly too. One piece I used was for the lining. Since when do they give you a separate pattern for the lining. Oh, well! I through out over $30.00 worth of fabric and ordered a cape on line that cost me over $50.00 for the cape and express delivery. Oh, man was I disgusted with myself. Experience and practice does not always make a great finished project. Hope you feel better now. I do. Thanks for letting me confess my ignorance. Oh, no! I hear the sirens now.
things/ READ THE DIRECTIONS FIRST! Don't feel too bad I fail to read them too!!! At least youhad time to get one before
Christmas.Ohhh no I think I hear sirens, better go hide!!
12-20-2010, 08:39 AM
#38
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Buried Under My Stash up in Canada!
Posts: 545
I know how you felt about the backing being to small. I have a kit from a high profile shop that I am putting together. After double checking the numbers again and again I found I was very short on the number of blocks and fabric for the missing blocks. Really ticks me off when you pay good money for this stuff and you get an imcomplete inferior product.Sent an email off but havent had a reply yet.
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