oh, am I happy to see this thread today! I've been working (well, was working, now taking a break to do school exams/have my boys do their school exams) on my son's comic strip quilt -- first big quilt I've done. So far I have:

-accidentally had the backing sort of fold over and get sewn over on itself at the outside edge (3 different times so far......)
-broke the Free Motion foot, not sure why (maybe not tight enough, like Nancy says?).
-tried to FMQ with a regular foot, but then I had to have the foot in the up position, which after I sewed (noticing that it was all loosey-goosey, but not sure why...), my sewing mentor told me that meant the thread wasn't on the tension thingy, and sure enough, that whole section has to be done again b/c of bunchy-ickiness on the back
-zig zag stitched my 1/4" foot to the quilt, but after reading this, thankful my 1/4" foot has a little hole over in the needle left position so at least I only sewed the foot down, didn't break the needle....

and, not on this project but on my first quilt ever I pieced the backing from 2 widths of fabric -- fabric with a semi-directional print. You guessed it, did not pay attention to that and sure enough, the 2 halves of the back go in opposite directions. ha!

Oh, and once doing an all white mini-quilt (small small, like 12" square I think it was), a single Cross & Crown block, I managed to get *one* triangle in wrong-side-out. Of course way in the center. Of course not noticed until the whole thing was together. I left it like that, as it was barely noticeable, and once quilted over it was *really* not noticeable.....

So glad I'm not alone in these!

I haven't produced that many finished projects... so this is what I can recall right now. Using a blue pencil to painstakingly mark the quilting patterns onto my first quilt, in 1983, only to still have those marks visible today! Can't remember if it was me, or the lady who quilted it... but somebody ironed over those pencil marks.
Promising my 12 year old nephew that I'd embroider his name on some jerseys when we visited at Christmas, only to pack EVERYTHING I needed, EXCEPT my Pfaff HOOPS! How painful, to have to explain to him why I couldn't do it, and had to take his jerseys home with me...

When I put things away in a place so safe I can't find them again, I blame my mom! She's been doing that for as long as I've known her, so either the trait is inherited or imbibed, and it's all her fault. of course I also lend things (big or small) to everyone and anyone, and am then surprised if they are not around, or, as in some cases, they never come back!

Recently, I broke a brand new needle while trying to zigzag using my straight stitch throat plate.

Also, I broke a new plastic free motion foot and my last size 11 needle just before finishing the quilting on my first quilt using the foot. They broke because I did not have the foot tightened enough, such that the vibrations loosened it. When the needle hit the loose foot, both the foot and the needle broke. The lesson learned is, when changing the foot, to always tighted the foot with a screwdriver and not just by hand.

Wendy that printer is going to show up as soon as you buy a new one.

well, I can't SEE my printer right now, because it is buried under all the bills that get paid on the first of the month. So I can understand losing a printer.

twiglet wrote: Sometimes when I can't find something big like that, it turns out I gave it to one of the kids. Is that a possibility?

I am sharing this because I have done the same thing twice in the past two hours...and that is just this afternoon. ( I won't tell you about all the other times I have done it.) My "needle left position" button is exactly above my "needle up and down" button. And I know exactly where that "needle up" button is and don't have to look at it. Sure...right... So, I unknowingly move my needle over, hit "needle down" and break the needle. Of course I am sewing with a single hole stitch plate...and now with two packs of needles by my side.

Wendy! You still haven't found it? A printer is a pretty big thing to misplace.
I definitely am one who puts things away so they won't get lost and then make a big mess trying to find them again only to find them where I thought they should have been to begin with--I usually blame it on my husband--otherwise I have to think that I have gone brain dead.

I spend so much time looking for things, my favorite saying is I could lose an elephant in this apartment. One of these days I will clean and organize, hopefully before Peter Walsh knocks on my door. Joan

twiglet wrote: Crikey! is it still MIA? that is one heck of a safe place! (have you looked in the box it came in? )

I did the ceiling fan thing too - my TQS HST's were "snowing" all over the room. It is then that I really observed that just because you jump up to turn off the fan switch, that fan takes SEVERAL more turns and keeps things flying!

Please can someone find my printer for me