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From: MaryW
Date: 06-29-2005, 01:12 PM (1 of 24)
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I will start this off, then everyone is welcome to add their own law. No matter how many pr. of scissors you have, they are always on the other side of the sewing room when you need them. MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542 
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From: Chrysantha
Date: 06-29-2005, 02:38 PM (2 of 24)
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No matter how many pairs of paper cutting scissors you have in the house, your husband ALWAYS tries to use your fabric scissors on paper, plastic, etc. It doesn't matter that you have 300 spools of thread, you always NEED that certain color you DON'T have. Chrys
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User: Chrysantha
Member since: 09-06-2002 Total posts: 2414 
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From: BeanQueen
Date: 06-29-2005, 03:34 PM (3 of 24)
| You forgot to get new needles. You will ALWAYS forget to take out that pin you are using to hold the pieces together.........................broken needle! |
User: BeanQueen
Member since: 12-02-2004 Total posts: 16 
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From: seamstress16
Date: 06-29-2005, 04:30 PM (4 of 24)
| You can almost complete a project thinking "YES! I got it perfect on the first try." And then something goes wrong! Even if it's a little something, there's always something! Why is that?! |
User: seamstress16
Member since: 01-29-2005 Total posts: 88 |
From: vreeser
Date: 06-29-2005, 04:55 PM (5 of 24)
| No matter how many reading glasses you have attached to chains to go around your neck, you will still forget that pair which you parked on top of your head when you can't find ANY. |
User: vreeser
Member since: 05-20-2003 Total posts: 1 |
From: weezie
Date: 06-29-2005, 07:03 PM (6 of 24)
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Every Bride always loses or gains 10 pounds the week before the wedding when you do the final fitting 10 days before the wedding
weezie
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User: weezie
Member since: 01-01-2002 Total posts: 34 |
From: woodywoodpecker
Date: 06-29-2005, 08:25 PM (7 of 24)
| If you can't fine the pin you dropped on the floor, your husband will find it with his bare feet. |
User: woodywoodpecker
Member since: 11-07-2003 Total posts: 242 |
From: plrlegal
Date: 06-29-2005, 10:37 PM (8 of 24)
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Other people feel it's their duty to give you sewing projects for them to keep you busy, otherwise, you might run out of fun interesting sewing projects. Patsy Patsy
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User: plrlegal
Member since: 05-19-2001 Total posts: 318 |
From: sable
Date: 06-30-2005, 02:50 AM (9 of 24)
| Everything dangerous in the sewing room is a magnet for my two boys. Every time I think everything is out of reach, they find something I hadn't thought of! |
User: sable
Member since: 01-10-2005 Total posts: 76 
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From: Zabelle
Date: 06-30-2005, 03:03 AM (10 of 24)
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The bobbin runs out of thread just before the last couple of seams.
English sewing journal: Kitty Couture
In French: Journal d'une cousette |
User: Zabelle
Member since: 02-25-2004 Total posts: 98 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 06-30-2005, 06:57 AM (11 of 24)
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No, Zabelle, the bobbin runs out in the middle of one of the final seams -- or better yet a blind hem or a button hole. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: mommydionne
Date: 06-30-2005, 08:09 AM (12 of 24)
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or DH walks in in the middle of a snafu and says "you're not done that yet??" argghhhhh!
Jeanette
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User: mommydionne
Member since: 01-08-2004 Total posts: 838 
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From: Zabelle
Date: 06-30-2005, 08:15 AM (13 of 24)
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No, Zabelle, the bobbin runs out in the middle of one of the final seams -- or better yet a blind hem or a button hole. Dorothy LOL! You're right that's even better 
English sewing journal: Kitty Couture
In French: Journal d'une cousette |
User: Zabelle
Member since: 02-25-2004 Total posts: 98
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From: MaryW
Date: 06-30-2005, 10:57 AM (14 of 24)
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Dear hubby walks in just when I am easing in a difficult sleeve and says "are you doing anything"?
MaryW
owner/editor of Sew Whats New |
User: MaryW
Member since: 06-23-2005 Total posts: 2542
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From: Aimee S
Date: 06-30-2005, 11:27 AM (15 of 24)
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A family member will come to you and say can you do this little repair and it is something that will take 3 days.....
The more you disaprove, the more fun I am having!
http://photos.yahoo.com/aimeehs29 |
User: Aimee S
Member since: 02-23-2003 Total posts: 488 
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From: Magot
Date: 06-30-2005, 11:30 AM (16 of 24)
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A pair of scissors, when dropped, will always land in the nearest soft object (your feet).
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: Aimee S
Date: 06-30-2005, 11:31 AM (17 of 24)
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No matter how many times you have made an article from a pattern the only time you screw it up is when it is for an important event or you dont have enough fabric to make another one.
The more you disaprove, the more fun I am having!
http://photos.yahoo.com/aimeehs29 |
User: Aimee S
Member since: 02-23-2003 Total posts: 488
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From: aly
Date: 06-30-2005, 07:13 PM (18 of 24)
| The seam you have to rip out is the one in which you also forgot to increase the stitch length back to normal. |
User: aly
Member since: 08-16-2002 Total posts: 35
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From: DIXIEQUILTER
Date: 07-02-2005, 11:19 AM (19 of 24)
| The number of projects you finish is directly inverse to the amount of fabric, notions, and equipment you buy |
User: DIXIEQUILTER
Member since: 07-02-2005 Total posts: 1 |
From: mamagoose
Date: 07-02-2005, 06:26 PM (20 of 24)
| Sewing seams the wrong width, even after making a note of it. |
User: mamagoose
Member since: 01-26-2002 Total posts: 168 |
From: June Harlow
Date: 07-03-2005, 08:08 AM (21 of 24)
Serged seams are always the ones that you have to rip out and re-do 
June ~
"If only I could find that missing pattern piece!" June sews on a Pfaff 1209 and a Babylock 5180 serger |
User: June Harlow
Member since: 05-30-2005 Total posts: 100 
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From: bridesmom
Date: 07-03-2005, 11:01 PM (22 of 24)
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An iron will only fall off your ironing board and land on nylon fabric when its HOT. (What a mess!!!)
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: Laurieb2851
Date: 07-05-2005, 03:55 PM (23 of 24)
| You find your favorite sewing scissors you've been missing the next time hubby digs them out of his toolbox to use for carpet cutting. |
User: Laurieb2851
Member since: 03-08-2005 Total posts: 16 |
From: Longblades
Date: 07-19-2005, 08:51 AM (24 of 24)
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How about the opposite of Murphy's Law? Times when you have been undeservedly lucky? Here's a recent one of mine. Made some test buttonholes and noticed the bobbin was getting low. Note to self: remember to fill bobbin. Self forgot. Made first buttonhole on garment, the top one of course, the most visible, and the bobbin ran out at the END of the buttonhole. There was not even so much as a milimetre of thread left to cut off. Lucky self. |
User: Longblades
Member since: 07-14-2005 Total posts: 182 |
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