Quilting on the Hill Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Unlike some of the other social medias, I love our beloved APQS forum. When we talk about humming along and on a roll with our quilting projects and such, everyone here seems to know just what you're talking about. Today, I anxiously started an intense applique job... after cutting pieces and having a "plan of action" I read back over the authors instructions again, knowing that they were confusing the first time and therefor I sort of dreaded the whole task at hand. Well, like recipes, I usually find a way to alter things to work for me and by mid-day it was all going so well. Then it happened (two blocks to go)... I ironed the double-sided fusible web to my iron... aarrgghh. Sticky, gooy, yuck. Of course the steel wool is no where to be found! What sorts of things threw your production to an immediate halt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s.waits Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 How about cutting half a quilt's worth of pieces only to discover you were cutting them backwards! Yep! Threw down the rotary cutter and put everything away, then waited for a "better" day to finish cutting those pieces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mattie-Sue Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Oh, so many to choose from. I am the queen of "Ask me how I know" . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yankiequilter Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 The very first quilt I made was from a book of quilts made with fat quarters. I thought that I was carefully following directions but then found I had erred. Ripped and tried again. Alas, still did not have it right. Decided I did not care, completed the quilt and named it 'Granny's Folly.' Regarding the fusible on the iron, I have also done that. Use a dryer sheet to rub it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Sometimes you just need to walk away….just walk away from the sewing and pick it up again on another day…go treat yourself to something splurgie…a coffee, etc…. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting on the Hill Posted March 5, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 Thanks girls ; Vicki, I've got the mocha! Carmen, LOVE your attitude and the re-name! Peggy & Sharon, I feel your pain and so glad to not be alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandmaLKB Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 If your run your iron over a sheet of wax paper, it helps clean and lets the iron run smoothly again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachside Quilter Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 I couldn't sleep one night & decided at 3am to press my 1" bow tie blocks & trim off the triangles. You guessed it; I carefully folded & cut the top triangle off instead of the bottom. It's still sitting in a box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggienoella Posted March 5, 2014 Report Share Posted March 5, 2014 I've done the fusible with the iron too. Not fun. One that I hate the most is when I decided to try a method of hand appliqué & then decided I liked the old fashioned way better. Those projects still sit. Joan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat C Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 Oh, this is a fun topic! I was one block short when finishing a quilt. Couldn't find that block anywhere but knew I had made it. Finally gave up looking and re-cut and pieced another one. No sooner did I get that new block done when I realized I was sitting on the one I couldn't find. It blended in perfectly with my chair pad! Felt more like I was one brick short more than one block short. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggienoella Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 Oh, Pat, that's so funny! Joan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heather Hodson Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 Dear Quilters, I have used table salt in the past to remove appliqué glue from the bottom of the iron and the iron sole. Sprinke a generous amount of salt over the glue on the ironing board and run your iron back and forth over the salt. Use cotton setting on your iron. May have to repeat a few times but works well. Good Luck, Heather Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mandalei Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 I've had to rip a fair bit of quilting, and the act of picking out those stupid little loops drives me nuts so I still have one of my first projects still pinned on the zipper leaders I zipped off in despair. Fast forward to two years later, and I just figured out how to get those loops out without becoming enraged: machingers! just rub those rubbery fingers all over and they come right out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peggy (SewAsylum) Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 I have found that a Magic Eraser, any brand, works wonders when cleaning off the iron plate. Just wet it and wring out and scrub. I do it every so often just to keep things clean. As a newbie, pretty much everything I have done so far has been a big boo boo. lol I just finished a disappearing 9 patch, for me, and I tried to stitch in every ditch, before quilting. I also put rick rack in with the binding. It looks cute, but my binding was not wide enough to handle it, so my corners are not mitered well. My piecing does not match up! Too hard for a beginner. But the fabric is so pretty, so who cares? It is still bright and fun and warm. On my last quilt, I did not do the applique correctly; oh well, I am still proud of it, and that I finished it. Live and learn! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltedsunflower Posted March 6, 2014 Report Share Posted March 6, 2014 There is a group of us each making a Farmer's Wife. We meet once a month. It's a lesson in paper piecing for most of us. Anyway, Someone called me from across the room to ask a question, so I got up from my machine, walked over there, answered the question and went back to my machine. I couldn't find the piece I was working on. Where could it have gone??? I walked back across the room, looked on the floor, the ironing surface - it was no where. Oh wait, the white paper is up and it's under my needle with half the seam sewed. Not really a goof, but I sure did feel silly. Everyone got a good laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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