Golden rule of craft – check the back of your work. And keep checking it. Something I obviously forgot earlier in the week when I was doing a spot of free motion while Elodie was napping. I was off on my merry way, la de da. I had checked my tension and everything before I started, then I changed bobbins and threaded up my machine again and off I went again…….everything looked pretty on the front, a couple of loose stitches………………..
and then I turned it over. One big almighty MESS! Oh man! The frustration! I rethreaded the machine top and bottom and checked my feed dogs were lowered and was off again with no problems. So there you go. I thought it would make a funny blog post to show that I am human. I make mistakes. I have an unpicker and I’m not afraid to use it! The quilt is just a play quilt for the kids and to get me back into free motion after too long a break from my machine. The range is Oops a Daisy and really fun for kids!
p.s. if you missed the excitement last night on Facebook, well I’ve started to list a few things on ebay. My craft room is being halved when the builders come in to knock down walls and put the kitchen out the back. More listings will be up next Saturday night 9pm but check out my machine and gocco! All listings are here and with 18 people watching my sewing machine, retro daddy is very happy that I am finally selling things I’ve promised a long time ago!
Hahaha! Oh dear…. x
Been there. Done that.
Feel for you!!
oh man, that sucks!
Oops a daisy, is exactly the right way to describe it
Oh I’m glad it’s not just me that does that – good luck with the unpicking!!!
No facebook – pity – what is the link on ebay – dreamt about your fabric all night and now I find out I might have missed it !!!! DAMN FACEBOOK!!!
ps have had quilts like that in the past that I have considered keeping and calling it FABRIC ART
Oh no! But thanks for sharing – useful tip for when ever I start learning to use a sewing machine x
Leah x
Oh been there! Takes sooooo long to unpick!
What an appropriately-named range of fabric to have used! I hope it unpicked easily.
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Ahh, definitely done that. Long live the unpicker!
Aaaarrgghh!!! How frustrating……one good thing when my machine does that, is it’s fairly easy to pull out.
Hope you managed to get it sorted out ok,
Claire :}
Thanks for sharing! Frustrating for you I’m sure – nap time is so precious!
Giggling in Hobart tonight, Corrie. Thanks for keeping it real. J x
Well I LOVE the front Corrie, absolutely gorgeous! How frustrating for you though, I don’t think I’d have the patience to start all over again… but that could explain why I’m not a sewer :o/ xo
I love that the range is called oops a daisy, I don’t like unpicking. What a great post.
I hate when that happens 😛
I haven’t made a quilt yet but have a great pattern for a girl’s blanket but I image that it will end up like this lol. Bet that was fun to unpick
At least one thing about that sort of quilting mess… because of the tension problem it’s super easy to undo. I know this from experience 😉
Oh dear, this looks so familiar!!
Oh no, what a royal pain! That has happened to me as well, sometimes my bobbin runs out and I don’t realise until I have finished sewing. Makes me want to cry!