Quilting/Sewing Idiosyncrasies
11-08-2009, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by PuffinGin
Originally Posted by PatriceJ
my machine nags me half to death when the bobbin thread is low. drives me crazy, and doesn't have a "SHUT UP ALREADY, I KNOW" button. :lol:
...and I too, only load SOME, if I don't use it often :D or I try to divide what's on the spool in half with bobbin :lol:
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11-08-2009, 06:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
I've not noticed myself doing anything like that while sewing. I suppose I'm still concentration too hard on doing the sewing right to do those silly things. That being said, I once realized that every time I step on the scale I suck in my stomach. Jeeze! As if sucking in your stomach makes you weigh less.
Are you telling us it doesn't?!?!?!?!?! :shock:
11-08-2009, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by sandpat
OK...I'll admit that I do tend to save those little scraps of fabric that you snip off like when you are sewing binding or borders together...those triangles and of course all small squares. I use them as "leaders" so my real sewing doesn't get all eaten up when I start to sew...I toss them all in a little scrap catcher that has now grown to an overflowing monster.
I was thinking last night that I might need to save ALL my trimmings...couldn't I then cut them up further into tiny bits and use them somehow in my new found fun technique of shadow trapunto????
I know...sick, just plain sick.... :roll:
I was thinking last night that I might need to save ALL my trimmings...couldn't I then cut them up further into tiny bits and use them somehow in my new found fun technique of shadow trapunto????
I know...sick, just plain sick.... :roll:
11-08-2009, 06:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
I've not noticed myself doing anything like that while sewing. I suppose I'm still concentration too hard on doing the sewing right to do those silly things. That being said, I once realized that every time I step on the scale I suck in my stomach. Jeeze! As if sucking in your stomach makes you weigh less.
11-08-2009, 06:26 AM
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Originally Posted by ctquilter
Originally Posted by CajunQuilter2
In a way I do the opposite, once I finish a seam and I am not sure if I have enough thread to make it to another end I take the remaining thread off the bobbin and rewind it fresh. I know, I know I waste thread but I guess it is just a small part of my OCD. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :oops: :oops:
I seem to things opposite of what most others do. I wonder if it has anything to do with being left handed?? :? :? :?
11-08-2009, 06:27 AM
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Originally Posted by Loretta
I throw all my scraps over my shoulder- lessons from Eleanor Burns! LOL! With hardwood floors, every thing sweeps up easily.
For more fun, you could put a wide garbage can behind you and play scrap basketball!
Me? it wouldn't be fun when I miss...I have that five second rule.
You know, you drop something, and as long as it hasn't been there over five seconds it's still not germinated! :mrgreen:
Of course I don't eat it...I am not one of those mice that eats off floors :shock: :!:
11-08-2009, 11:48 AM
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My machine must be a slow learner 'cause it never says anything like that and it's over 45 years old. I, on the other hand, do say things when bobbin runs out midseam. No, it's not "Oh, you naughty bobbin." I often check bobbin thread and guess whether I have enough to finish (not always correctly, tho). When I refill it, I only wind as much on bobbin as I think I'll need, especially when it's not a color I use often. The thread I remove gets wound around a small folded piece of cardboard or paper and saved for hand sewing. Can't waste good thread![/quote]
I try to fill the bobbin for what I think I need for the HandiQuilter and I miss guess it everytime. Run out about an inch or two from being done. Those HQ bobbins hold alot of thread so I hate to completely fill it when I'm so close to the end. With what's left I fill my sewing machine bobbins to use in piecing.
I try to fill the bobbin for what I think I need for the HandiQuilter and I miss guess it everytime. Run out about an inch or two from being done. Those HQ bobbins hold alot of thread so I hate to completely fill it when I'm so close to the end. With what's left I fill my sewing machine bobbins to use in piecing.
11-08-2009, 01:41 PM
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Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
uh, well, I just realized that some may not want to know what I used to yell stop about...it wasn't my sewing machine! :shock: - :oops: - :mrgreen:
11-08-2009, 01:57 PM
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If I think I might run out of bobbin thread before finishing a long seam like a border, I'll take the bobbin out and unwind the rest of the thread. I usually just throw that thread away. But then, the quilting gods get back at me for wasting by making me drop the bobbin while unwinding it, and I have to get down on my hands and knees trying to find that clear plastic bobbin under whatever it decided to hide under, and then I have to stand up again! Maybe I should learn my lesson already and quit wasting thread!
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11-08-2009, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
I've not noticed myself doing anything like that while sewing. I suppose I'm still concentration too hard on doing the sewing right to do those silly things. That being said, I once realized that every time I step on the scale I suck in my stomach. Jeeze! As if sucking in your stomach makes you weigh less.
The next time I step on the scales....I am going to try "exhaling" LMBO
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