Not OT - Have you ever

taken simply hours to draw up a design plan, start colouring it it, left it on your desk for a little bit while you did some (gasp, shock, horror) housework and come back only to find that some little visitors (ie Best Friend's Kidlets) had helped you to colour in?

Such happened to me. I'd drawn up the placement of DH's whirligig quilt (yes it's almost at the sewing together stage) and had done about 1/3 of it. I came back and thought "Hmm I didn't allocate those colours to those fabrics.". On closer inspection about 10 more whirlis had been coloured in by a helper. I was in tears as I had to go through each individual fabric again, counting off each 9 whirligigs....Ooooh the pain of it. Suffice it to say I have finished it now, embedded it in plastic and BANNED colouring pencils!

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Sharon Harper
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Umm, if I'd had the fabric to match their colouring (yes, that would have been an excuse for S.E.X.) it would have looked okay. But I'd assigned specific colours to my fabrics and I just didn't have the ones they used. Like you, I'm not sure if it's the way I had it but I reckon it'll be okay.

Lesson number one - Don't leave colour pencils near design plans.

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Sharon Harper

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julia sidebottom

There are so many dangerous things in my "room". I might allow my oldest grands, now fifteen, in here alone but not for long. Okay. I admit it. I don't even let the Yorkie in here without me. Too many things that are sharp, fragile, finely-tuned and/or poisonous. Truth be told, I'd rather DH wasn't in here unsupervised. He just unconsciously has to straighten things and an "on point" arrangement would have a very short life. Heee, he, he. So would he. Polly

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Polly Esther

Nope -- I can't say that such a thing ever happened to me. Of course, that might be because I started quilting when my own DDs were a bit older. ;) Still, I feel for you -- I remember messing up my own drawings and having to start over!

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Sandy Foster

Lessee, I'm an artist-seamstress-quilter with 4 kids and 2 grandkids, have I ever had my designs "customized" by a little person? Hell yes!!!!

Ask me sometime why I gave up oils for acrylics. Oy!

NightMist NOTE: Baby oil is the best thing for removing oil paint from the hair and skin of small children, cats do not appreciate your consideration in bypassing turpentine or white spirits near as much. In fact, the cats are almost as ungreatful as the children.

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NightMist

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