You know you are a Dummy Quilter (and or Stitcher) when: (these are all true stories!)
"Sore" Tooth Block he he he
- You painstakingly follow a bag pattern, and quilt a beautiful handle only to realise you have stitched the handle on twisted (Stella Mod Handbag pattern)
- Not Only did you stitch it on twisted, whilst stitching you didn’t pay enough attention to what was being fed to your
feedbags??!! feed dogs and the handle is also attached to the front of the bag. - You stitch with the right sides facing the wrong side instead of right sides facing
- You top stitch when you should be basting, or baste when you should be top stitching (because you haven’t reset your stitch length)
- You cut off the noses of flying geese units, either by trimming or stitching
- Your flying geese units fly in the wrong direction
Unpicked Flying Geese Units
- When you make dresdens plates, blades of the plate go missing, so you cut more blades, only to have the missing blades turn up mysteriously later on in the project
- You cut out circles for the centre of the plates and they are too small to cover the hole in the middle
- You turn your Dresden blades right side out with the blunt end of a skewer and you still poke the skewer through the nose of the blade
- When fixing an error in an incorrectly stitched block you pick up another incorrectly stitched block as a reference and restitch the same error again (Mon Ami Schnibble)
- When unpicking an incorrectly stitched block, you realise after that the block you have just unpicked was actually correct all along, and you have another incorrect block that should have been unpicked
- you always (and I mean always) forget that you have just been winding on bobbin thread with your machine so you need to put the machine back into stitching mode before actually stitching
- When cutting strips of equal length, not all of them are equal
- Sometimes you forget to put the foot back down and start stitching with the foot in mid air
- You post off a block to your swap partner only to realise that your tuck ins are still in your bag, and never made it into the envelope
- You stitch along happily not realising that you ran out of bobbin thread 5 minutes ago
- You stitch sashing strips to each side of your blocks then after realise that blocks lying next to another block, only need sashing on one edge not both
- You carefully add up costs of $100 worth of supplies at your local craft store, get to the counter and whilst the lovely lass is cutting fabric you realise you left your purse 15minutes drive away at home
- When using my clover bias tape maker (1inch) for the first time, I read on the instructions that I needed to cut the width of the strip of fabric that would become the tape at 48mm (this equates to 1and7/8inches) I have also used metric measurements so I just remembered that it was 48mm and then I took my fabric to my cutting mat and ended up cutting a strip nearly 5inches wide instead… because I had the metric figure in my head instead of the imperial one.
- When slowly and deliberately working on the first block for Vignette Mystery Quilt, I was stitching very slowly and carefully but still stitched one piece of fabric on the right side of the block instead of the left.
- Vignette In Stitches Block 1 – My First Error
- When ironing my stabiliser onto a block I had just spent some tracing a stitching design on to, I had this huge panic when the tracing disappeared due to the heat activated by my ironing, only to remember 2 seconds later that that was the plan anyway, as the tracing would reappear after I placed it in the freezer.
- I stopped stitching hexagons because I had run out of sewline glue pen, which I am using for basting, only to realise after purchasing more, there are 2 packs in the refill and I had only used one… I needn’t have stopped!
- I widened my stitch width, but didn’t change my sewing machine foot, so the needle smacked into the metal foot and snapped.
