Girls remember we don't have senior moments, we have "Intellectual malfunctions"
Unfortunatly I have too many of them Hey Ho that's life
Anne

Margo wrote: And slowly!

genevacarroll wrote:
Check out the instructions here Geneva. And don't be discouraged if it takes a couple of tries to get it right! The instructions have to be followed very closely!

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It's nice to be part of this club!!

I used to make quillows to sell, which meant I made many of them. I can't tell you how many times I pin basted the quillow together with straight pins and as I was leaning forward sewing, I would poke myself in the, um, well, "chest"! OW!!! Is it worse that it's happened more than once? Good Grief!!

Geneva in Northern California

who can't figure out how to make a snazzy name sign like everyone else!

I had finished most of the quilting on a wallhanging when I noticed that the backing fabric was the wrong side up. I left it and wrote across the back with a permanent marker: "Oooops!"

Oh yes, I managed to firmly attach my t-shirt to a quilt when doing some hand quilting.

[/quote] Another of my all-time favourites (not) is to try to do decorative stitches while my 1/4" foot is still attached. I have lost count of the numbers of needles I have broken. [/quote]

Oh yes, this is probably the most amazing feat I've accomplished repeatedly! Now I have a machine that can be restricted, but only when told to do so.

Gaelic Blessing Rita I can hear your music when I look at it

I didn't have any difficulty at all sewing my supreme slider to the bottom of my quilt(someone ask how you could do that--if I remember correctly, I forgot to put the feed dogs down and they moved it enough for the needle to caught hold and after that it was simple).

I can remember, in my days of making clothes, making a top from a double knit fabric. I had tons of problems with said fabric because it had a shiny finish to it and it didn't want to feed evenly. Needless to say, by the time I got to the place of putting the sleeves on, I wanted to be done with it. Here is the problem--the sleeves were very full and were to be gathered at the wrist and they were raglan. The pattern called for you to sew the front and back together first, unfortunately the front and back were close to the same size as the sleeves and I sewed the sleeves together three times before I got it right. Remember how hard it is to rip double knits? I never was very fond of that blouse after that.

Golly Gee Whiz !! Nearly every single thing that has been mentioned..I've done the same or almost the same
thing in my quilting history !! Here's another fun one...Had a quilt that had many long lines
of large rick-rack as an extra embelishment...I sewed it on first...then loaded the quilt on the handy quilter frame
and quickly found it couldn't be done !! Misread the instruction ! Had to remove all that rick-rack and and guess what?
It is still in the UFO pile! And now I can't find the backing that was made for it... have the batt but not the king
size back

Margo wrote:
Been there, done that!! You're right, it is not fun. I did not want to remove the quilt from the longarm frame, so sat my SM on it the longarm table and sewed alittle, shifted machine and sewed alittle more. It was a pain.
Another time, I was hand quilting a baby quilt for my boss. When almost done, notice the backing had shifted. Not enough backing left. I had to remove all the stitching and redo. I was thankful it was only a baby quilt, and not larger. Boss was happy, I got paid, but I learned a lesson there too.

twiglet wrote:
I wish! Wouldn't everybody be GREEN with envy.

It is refreshing to read that other people have made mistakes too. Another of my all-time favourites (not) is to try to do decorative stitches while my 1/4" foot is still attached. I have lost count of the numbers of needles I have broken.

Put on my Supreme Slider and then my walking Foot to do some straight line quilting, It took me ages to work out why this was not a good
combination

Measure twice....Cut once!

Just be sure that when you mount the backing on the long-arm frame that it is oriented in the right direction or when you get to the end you need to cut 3 inches off one side and add it to the bottom!! NOT FUN!!

loise98 wrote:
Like many of the rest of you, its sewing fabric to the under side of the quilt. You'd think I'd learn to clean the table before I sew. This happens most often when I am paper piecing. Somehow the trimming scraps find their way under the quilt.