Things that annoy me about sewing
#22
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I retired early so didn't mind having meals ready but when my husband retired I said if you are hungry find, buy , or cook something to eat. I only cook when I want to. He discovered he likes to grill and smoke foods. The only prepared meal we have is a supper meal. I never prepared breakfast or lunch after the kids were 12. I worked all week so I wasn't about to cook all weekend.
#23
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Join Date: May 2022
Location: Northeast
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Little annoys me about quilting. Love all the processes and I've learned that in my sewing room, everything has a place and it is where it is in easy reach. What is annoying is the way the prices keep soaring for fabric etc. And if I am looking for an acrylic template for an old pattern that no one seems to carry or make anymore.
Sewing garments is another thing. What annoys me the most is the air thin paper they are putting patterns on now and there are just too many sizes on that same air thin paper, that some of the sizes lines to cut on, converge into the the nearby lines of the other sizes, so you don't know where to actually cut.
Sewing garments is another thing. What annoys me the most is the air thin paper they are putting patterns on now and there are just too many sizes on that same air thin paper, that some of the sizes lines to cut on, converge into the the nearby lines of the other sizes, so you don't know where to actually cut.
Last edited by quiltsfor; 01-13-2024 at 11:20 AM.
#25
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Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Mukilteo, WA
Posts: 8
I find the perfect pattern, say for fat quarters, of which I have a ton. Oh I need nine. I'm sure I have enough. Turns out I have eight that are perfect and not one other anywhere that goes with the others. Happens every time. How can I have so much stuff and never have everything I need? Maybe ithe ninth is hiding with my seam ripper?
#26
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Join Date: Oct 2020
Location: Virginia
Posts: 239
Years and years ago I bought a set of plastic feather templates in graduated sizes, all organized neatly and hanging on a chain. The last time I saw them they were in the room in which I quilted previous to my current sewing room. Now that I want to stitch a feather wreath on my current hand quilting project WHERE oh WHERE have they gone?? I have scoured my desk, the drawers, every inch of my sewing space. But -- no can find. Now THAT'S annoying!
#28
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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You may be right...lol
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Davenport, Iowa
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For me it's fabric that ravels like mad everytime you go to press it, even though I've used starch to press it before cutting into the needed shapes. Hate the time it takes to snip all those little darn threads.
I also hate the fact that for me, I jump to a new quilt pattern before finishing the one I was working on. So many UFO's....so little time.
I also hate the fact that for me, I jump to a new quilt pattern before finishing the one I was working on. So many UFO's....so little time.
#30
- bobbins running out at the worst moment (is there a good moment?)
- unthreading needle on first stitch
- running out of background/ fabric
- having to stop to take care of loved ones
- gifting baby quilt w/o receiving TY note
- not having the right color of thread