Hi cuties I cannot belive what I did yesterday........ I thought I would make my 1st tissue box cover !!!
I chose lovely silk fabric & padding.... stitched out the 4 sides first as you meant to ........ then I stitched out the top with the hole in it ...... then thought "where is the bottom peice" ...... oh well I will stitch out the top peice again but not the hole ...... !!!!!Then I sewn all peices together like you do ......
Feeling really excited now...... got my box of tissues ready.....OH NO ...... how do I get the box in ??????? I could not belive it .... the dammn box does not have a bottom peice !!!!! LOL LOL my friend came round & laughed so much she almost wet herself LOL Lesson number 1 learnt !!!! Today I am going to try again but without the peice at the bottom!!!!!!
Have any Cuties ever made such a simple yet dumb mistake as this ??? if so please share & maybe I won'tfeel sooooo DUMB!!!!!
Look foward to hearing from you xxxx HUGS xxxx Karma
1996
That sounds like something I would do! You were just getting ahead of yourself.
6574I had a good laugh about this, I too have done some silly mistakes like the 1st time I made a pair of long pant (about 20years ago) I sewed the legs all wrong i couldnt work out I was suppose to wear them. Thanks for sharing this with us it is good that you can laugh at your mistakes and have others laugh with you....We all have grey hair days
4865LOL and then some I am falling off my chair !! O yes I have done some doozies. I made a quilt recently and sure enough I was almost done with the top when I had a design in the center backwards. Ok took it all out and put it back together, Guess what it now was sideways. O yes took apart again put back together yes for the third time I now had my seam on the front side. I love my ripper finally on the fourth time I got it right. Well I love all the stories.!!!!!!!!!!!
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11473That is funny. As I was reading my mind was saying, "Oh no don't do that" like I was watching a car wreck but couldn't do anything about it. But it's so easy to see after the fact isn't it? Yes, we've all made mistakes. Right now I'm worried I won't do that as I re-do my kitchen :o
463406Ohhhhhhhhhhhh... are you supposed to learn from your mistakes!!!!???
I didn't know that :{
AlmaG.
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6187I had to chuckle after reading this. We all have made similiar mistakes and lived to tell about it. But it's seldom that we ever make that same mistake twice! LOL, thanks for the laugh :)
8181Thanks for all the responses & Thank you for all the Flowers - I'm still laughing to my self !!!!
1996Among other mistakes this was the funniest, I was stitching a shirt for a friend for a Christmas present, I was being so careful, I got all the parts together and started to stitch, when I was finished I proudly displayed my handy work to my kids. One of them said "Mom, why did you put SOCCER MOM with Hockey sticks" I had to rip out the SOCCER and put in HOCKEY. Won't make that mistake again. :)
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2608Fill it with uncooked rice or beans. Then add some artificial flowers on top and you will have a delightful "planter". Ask me how I know this. LOL
One thing is for sure; it's not a mistake we're going to make again. Happy stitching. ***
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46645The question is not have we made 'a' mistake. I am not sure I can count high enough to cover all the mistakes I have made over the 5 decades of sewing. It is better to laugh and carry on to a beautiful finished product. Enjoy the tissue box.
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169064You aren't alone. We have all done something dumb. I made a some beautiful FSL. At least I thought it was FSL until I washed it out and everything was in the bottom of the bowl. Another sleepless night of embroidery to fix that mess!
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12985I'm still smiling at that one. I also did a boo-boo. I was emb a man's tie for someone and emb the little tail if it on the back of the design. Oh was I mad and upset, took me 3 hours to rip it out.
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5046Oh I think that is too funny. Something I could have done. You made my day and I will not feel too bad about having put my slippers in the refrigerator
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by sewmom
08 Apr 2010
I've found the peanut butter in the refrigerator and the OJ on top of the refrigerator. Slippers.... not yet. (p.s. it wasn't me
109774Karma, Thanks for the laugh. Well you could take the tissues out the box and place it in your holder.
I was doing a design yesterday and had to turn it upside down,to stitch out. I did not turn it all the way around so the whole of the first colour was at an angle.
Thanks to "Fleabag" Fiona who was visiting yesterday , started to unpick it for me.
Well I sat the whole night unpicking while the other designs were stitching. Only went to bed at 2.30 this morning.
Hugs Yvonne
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132773Oh yes, have made similar mistakes for sure. Then I begin ripping things apart while I'm calling myself names. The good thing is that I hope I learn from my mistakes but sometimes months later I begin to do the same thing and fortunately stop myself partway through and say, wait, that's what I did last time. LOL I chalk it up to getting old and having so much stuff packed into my head that some of it gets a little mixed up now and then. LOL Thanks for sharing.
1659I think it would make a great, elegant Piggy Bank.
And yes, I made a Boo Boo recently. I stitched a cute little 'basket' that I had in my FSL folder. As it stitched, I thought how sweet it looked. Then when I dissolved the WSS the whole thing became a tangled mess. Turns out it was to be stitched on organza.
*4U
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8944I have not made a tissue box yet but you sure have saved me from doing the same thing. LOL
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7495Hey...it's not a tissue box! It's a treasure box for you to keep your very special little trinkets in!! Believe me in the 40+ years I've been sewing I've done some doozies. I have a small pile of them in the basement that I keep saying I'm going to fix. Hubby just laughs everytime he see the pile. Onward and upward..you won't make that mistake again!!!
6832My goodness, do not feel too dumb. I think we Cuties has such a lot on our minds, that we sometimes get a blockout of brain signals. (The signals gets a bit smashed from having to think too much)LOL. I do not think there is one of us that have not made such boo, boo's, I am one for sure.!!!!!!!
15907absolutely I made my granddaughter a pair of jammies and sewed the inside of the legs together so it looked more like a skirt!
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17161Thank you for the great laugh. I was making shorts on Tuesday and stiched them wrong and had 2 left legs Finished with 2 pair of shorts instead of 1pair. Don't say a word shaz
76409Well, you did make your first "BOX", LOL. That's too funny. Thanks for the chuckle this morning! ~Rita
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46919They say you should always start your day with a smile...well I sure did after reading this...Thanks for sharing...and yes I have had my share of BOO BOO'S too...I once sewed an entire embroidery design with water soluble bobbin thread..talk about a BOO BOO...Chalk it up to a lesson learned...*4U!!
11259So funny Karma, but you have a BEAUTIFUL box to drop your change into at the end of the day.;)
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2326That wasn't so bad!!!! Just think, now you have a box with a hole in the top of it! The hard part is figuring out how to use it!!!! Thanks for sharing!*
96265It is a good laugh if it happens too some one else, i hope i will remember when i make one. I think i would make the same mistake. Yvonne
34172a mistake that can happen to anyone :o)
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200127AS my friend says, "you'll have days like that." We all have done things like that just laugh and go on and try try again. Hope today is better for you.
10191Don't kick yourself about it. I once made a dress and put two left sides as the back, didn't notice until I had sew the sides all the way thru. It happens to the best of us. LOL Cloey
4271thank for sharing this. I've never made a tissue box, but probably I should have made the same mistake. thanks for the laugh.*4u
743281Thank you for the great laugh, and yes I am sure there are many of us who have made such boo boos but not sure if we'd be brave enough to admit to them.
:-)))
Hugs and roses for sharing, Meganne
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11814Your entry made me laugh, I think we all have made mistakes with our sewing and embroidery. Thank you for sharing this with us. Hugs, Mary
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