Joyce

My biggest pet peeve is the amount of fabric I get gypped out of by crooked cuts from the clerk.
I always 2-thread overcast all of my fabric, following just the cut line, before washing & drying.
I press on my 2'x5' board that I made for my ironing board. This has a gridded ruler on it done by half inch squares.
I can lose up to 3" on a cut of fabric!
There is the cut that is long on both ends but makes a half-moon in the middle.
Then there is the cut that starts at the botton on the selvedge and travels downhill to the fold. This give me the upside down half-moon.
Some of the cuts are so jagged they look like they used pinking shears that were missing a few teeth. GRRR!
Joyce

Yvonne

Ruth,
I've had the clerks go back to the 'before sale' price and then take the 50% off. I thought it was at JoAnn's but it may have been at Michael's. Usually they will oblige when asked to do this. Doesn't hurt to ask. :wink:

mimisharon

Your Michaels sells fabrics? I feel gypped!! We don't have fabric at ours.

I have to drive 45 miles to get to the closest Joann's so I'm the same ticked off when their coupons don't cover what I want. HOWEVER, it did save me a lot of money for all the wedding materials I had to buy. AND they honored my online coupon for 10% off on the whole order, so it wasn't a bad day.

Yvonne

No, no, no. Sorry for that wrong impression. They just make such a deal with their coupons. I pick up my rotary cutter blades at Michaels and quilt books and stuff like that. No fabrics though. I usually hit my one or the other of my favorite fabric stores for those but I use Michaels for the tools, etc.

Barbara Maloney

If you join the American Quilt Society you will get a card good for a 10% discount at Joanne's and that is off your total purchase, sale items or not. It is also on top of your 40% off coupon in the flier. I believe membership to the AQS is 18.95, I am guessing I do not remember for sure, and that includes a subscription to their magazine. Plus if you go to any of their shows, you get discounted entry.

Extreme Quilter

Joann's used to reinstitute the regular price on sale items so you could use your 40% or 50% coupons which are good only on regular priced items, but they stopped doing that for a couple years now.

JoAnn's used to have a 10% off Seniors' day every Wednesday, but they dropped that about four years ago. the only way to get the extra 10% as discussed here is through AQS, which is a good deal. It has saved me a ton of money over the years.

Extreme Quilter

Barbara, I believe the 10% from AQS only applies to noncoupon items. so it will cover all sale and nonsale items with an extra 10% off but not an extra 10% off of items to which a 40% or 50% coupon has been applied.

ceannastahr

Have 5 or 6 seam rippers but can't find 1 when you need it. Finaly find 1 and couldn't cut rip through butter. Darm BOM

Phyllis Trotter

Can anyone tell me why I got a hump in the middle of my stack & whack?

patricej

that's what you get for making it from camel skins!
:shock:

seriously, though, lumps in the middle are there because so many seams come together in one place, there's nowhere for the seam allowances to "go", so they pile up on top of each other. starting with the top of the lump (on the back side, of course) carefully trim away the excess fabric to within a few threads of where the stitching ends. trim away one patch at a time until it flattens out.

when you make your next block(s), press, then trim the excess as you go.

just be careful to not trim away TOO much or you'll end up with a hole in the middle. (don't ask me how i know that. it NEVER happened to me. it happened to that other woman who lives in my house and looks exactly like me. she confessed it to me one night when she was sloppy drunk. LOL)