I thought you might like to share a laugh at my expense. (I'm having a "duh" day today.)
I'm testing some new mug-rug designs and everything was going smoothly until I realised I hadn't left a gap for turning through. All was not lost in this instance as I only had to unpick a few stitches but then its back to the design on the computer screen to re-digitise the outline.
This reminded me of the time I was testing a CD recycling design and I had the stitching order wrong. It took me a while to work out what was happening when my machine tried to stitch through the CD!
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Laugh at you... NOOOOO Never .. With you yes but at you no :)
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42046Thanks Sue and to all the ladies who commented before me. I loved the laughs you gave me.
I have gone to Embroidery Club classes for the last 2 years and have learnt more from the mistakes everyone made, including the teacher, than from anything else. And thoroughly enjoyed my time with those girls.
I still have scratches on my 1981 Janome where the needles wouldn't fit into place. It took a while, but I finally worked out that the machine only likes 2 brands of needles - Janome or Schmetz (another DUH moment, took me some time to remember the 2nd name & I only see it every day!)
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by capoodle
23 Jan 2014
We are all familiar with picking out stitches. That's creativity at its best.
1941Sue there is not many days I don't have a duh day .I just take it with a gran of salt and do over.
Lenamae
32767Could have been worse. If you tried to be smart and used a good-bodied batting and didn't open a zip far enough and then couldn't get your fingers in to turn the thing inside out and when you did finally decide to cut your way in you found the wretched thing too stiff to turn anyway. Don't even bother to ask how I know.... :{
Senior Exec. of the Senior Moments Society.
AlmaG.
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17214318494Been there, done the same, maybe even worse as I only made an opening in the backward path (I always double stitch an outline for strength)..
145304I think we all have DUH!! moments - even when doing our embroideries let alone digitising them. I tend to do a lot of thinking also. Have my grandchildren and daughter & sil living with us and whenever I hear them and am trying to do something I make a stupid mistake. My unpicker has been working overtime.....Lyn
4757You are certainly not the only one to have Duh! days. Happens to us all - well, it does to me.
255054I done that and glad your moment is a duh...... "meaning you did once". I have daily derr, duh,that's her! "meaning me". Also means you got something really nice up and coming.
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86901Ok How many needles did you break before you realized what was happening." Duh" Days are good as they just prove to us we are mortal and only the Gods do perfect every time..i am now more hopeful of a meeting of minds in April.
I for one am looking forward to the new mug rugs design.
Little Bambi was poorly but is now a little better but will need a new starter motor and a fly wheel thingy.
Perhaps the nut behind the wheel that hangs onto the giggling pin will also now feel better as peace descends again.
annie somewhere in the uk
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by spendlove
22 Jan 2014
By the way, my machine stitched through the CD and didn't break a needle! Sounded dreadful though.
by mops
22 Jan 2014
My duh moment was when a screw on my EP4 became undone and The needle went through the frame. Needle did not break but the row of holes it left in the frame reminds me of checking the nuts before I start embroidering.
14995Thanx for the chuckle!!! I laugh at myself when I do silly things too. Have a Blessed day. Hugs, Judy
92391That must be very frustrating to spend hours working only to find you must remove stitches. I don't even want to think of the number of needles you must go through before you send it out to be test stitched by someone else.
How many hours do you usually spend on a design? I know (in the past, when I had more time) whenever I would do a test stitch -- it was often several attempts to get it all just right.
One of my sons thinks all of those stitch-outs should be included in the quilt he wants me to make with all my failed stitch-outs. I must say -- it will be a very big quilt! LOL
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by spendlove
22 Jan 2014
That sounds awful - if there is some thing wrong with each piece it will just be magnified many times over and haunt you forever!
It is hard to estimate a time per design. I need a lot of thinking time before I even start. And test stitch the design in my head before I even try to digitise it! My designs tend to be quite quick to actually digitise, but I also spend quite a while photographing and writing the tutorial. I hate to think how long it takes to digitise complex filled designs with tens of thousands of stitches. Perhaps someone will drop in and enlighten us.
57675Sue!Now that's something I do!Ha-Ha. I'm sure this happens more than we admit!
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