Grrr - sewing but not strictly quilting related

I'm having a bad sewing night. Ever have one of those? Things have puckered, snagged, snapped, run out, been uneven, wonky, wobbly. I've sat on pins. I've measured, cut, then discovered I've cut an inch too short but I *know* I measured correctly. *Every* *single* *time* I put down my scissors they turn invisible for five minutes before miraculously becoming visible again. I know they turn invisible because the place I find them in is somewhere I already looked five times.

I give in. Clearly the planets that govern my sewing skills are misaligned tonight. Perhaps my biorhythms are wrong for sewing. Perhaps the little folk are angry that I haven't left them a saucer of milk. Perhaps the cosmos doesn't want me to finish this cushion cover. Perhaps my gran was right and you should never try to sew when a scientific probe has just crashed into the moon.

I'm going to bed with cup of cocoa, a good book, and a couple of aspirin.

Reply to
M Rimmer
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I feel your pain! be thankful it isn't a carved in stone deadline (BTDTGTTAWIO)

((Hugs))

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Jessamy

Did the zips come out OK?

I gave up on a cotton dress project this evening and went and cooked dinner when I sewed the bodice together the wrong way out... Luckily, being a batik cotton, any possible wrongness doesn't show now I have fixed it. I'll finish the dress tomorrow to stop me worrying about letting James loose on the town for the morning... It's time for his trial run to school before term starts. He put all his uniform on this evening for Alan to take pix. Ooer! Soddenly he looks like all the little oiks I used to teach! AARRGGHH! Where did my cherub go?

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Kate Dicey

"Oiks?" LOL Have never heard that one...Thanks for the giggle. I need one today. KJ

I'll finish the dress tomorrow to stop me worrying about

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KJ

I always take times like these as a sign I need chocolate, caffeine and a good bit of time delving into some trashy novel, preferably something with fast cars, dashing heros and spunky leading ladies. The goddess of sewing has spoken: "Put down that fabric and step away from the sewing machine." Who am I t o argue? LOL

Sunny

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Sunny

Oiks is 20th C... OED has an oik as 'an uncouth or obnoxious person; an idiot.' Dates from the thirties, I yhink.

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Kate Dicey

Okay Jess... I follow you part of the way... please expound...

Been There Done That G T T A W I O ........ Kate in MI

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Kate G.

you beat me to it. shes gone to bed now so we'll all have to wait til tomorrow, argh. oh wait, her tomorrow is my tonight so i dont have to wait as long. tho i will be awake all that time waiting, unlike most of you. oh well. Been There, Done That, Got The T....... A......... W....... I....... O........ hmmmmmmmm jeanne

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nzlstar*

oh dear, Mel. sorry to hear you're having such worrys with the sewing. i think its all happening cuz the astronomers, in their collective wisdom, dropped poor old pluto out of the solar system and we're all having trouble re-wording the remaining 8 planets into a new logical sentence. M V E M J S N U jeanne

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nzlstar*

not unlike the recent poster on here whos being a right pita. :) Oiks live under bridges too i guess. jeanne :)

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jennell

Been There Done That Got The T-shirt, Wore It Out

Is that close???!!

G> Okay Jess... I follow you part of the way... please expound...

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Ginger in CA

For all of your preferences, have you read Tinker by Wen Spencer? The SF book club has it and the sequel in a book together called Steel City Magic. My sis lent it to me & then I had to have my own copy.

Jane in NE Ohio

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Jane Kay

Oh dear, that doesn't sound good.

Thanks everyone for your sympathy. I feel better this morning and I'll have another go at those **** cushion covers today.

In message , jennell writes

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M Rimmer

close? yep - you only missed the And ;-)

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Jessamy

Okay Jess... I follow you part of the way... please expound...

Been There Done That Got The T-shirt

*And* Wore It Out ........ Kate in MI

chucking.. Jess - back to marking the 136 black triangles for the border of my competition quilt... (*what* was I thinking! oh well only 40 left to do...)

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Jessamy

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jennell

You're doing the right thing! Roberta in D

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Reply to
Roberta Zollner

Oh boy have I had those days! Just be happy that there is not a string hanging out of the cat, or a child dashing by coated in some unknown but sticky looking substance.

At our house such days are usually chalked up to Mercury going retrograde. Whether is has or not! (G)

NightMist

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NightMist

yesterday got marked by youngest (who is not happy about having to do his "poo" in the WC but is more than happy to run around nappy less and usually does well) did his poo on the stairs on his way to bed and me miscalculating the sashing of the border blocks of my competition quilt resulting in the border being 4 inches too large on *each* side and me having to spread that over 17 sashing strips that now need trimming good news is I have finished ripping out all the stitches bad news is

2 1/2 borders still need trimming.

worse news is : this border needs to be finished *now*

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Jessamy

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