You cut exactly the right number of pieces, when you go to sew them together one piece is always missing. So you cut another, sew it where it was needed then you find the piece you had cut earlier.

No matter how many shades of blue thread you have , you don’t have the one you want for the project you’re working on.

Losing pins, finding them in the carpet or stepping on one are awful, but the worst is finding that you have sewn one into a quilt!

When visiting a quilt shop in Hawaii (our daughter lived there for a couple years), I saw some fabric that I could use in a project. I remember asking my hubby about it and he agreed. For the life of us, we can’t remember what the project was, but I still have that fabric. That Hawaiian fabric is now almost 10 years old.

Here’s one I just went through. It started in January when I reorganized the drawers in my sewing machine cabinet. Because the cabinet now holds a Bernina that takes the large black bobbins, I removed the smaller metal bobbins that still fit my back-up machine. I put those metal bobbins somewhere, but I couldn’t find them. Fortunately, I found them today. Here’s a suggestion. When you move something like those bobbins to a new home, leave a small note in the original home that says where the item is now located. Eventually you can get rid of that note when you have the new home memorized. If the item was not located in the first place you looked for it, consider moving it to that location because that’s where you think it should be. I do that with all kinds of things in my house - move them to the first place I thought to look for them or leave a note telling me where to look.

Deb's Law: Murphy was an optimist.

I've experienced ALL of these at one point or another. So, we've implemented a law at my house: Don't talk badly about ANY appliance/car/computer/sewing machine...because it WILL hear you and WILL retaliate for what you said. And I no longer have the problem of having a buried sewing notion - I found a nifty plastic clamp on basket that I put on my cutting table. All the notions for the project go in it and as soon as I'm done using the notion into that basket it goes. That and having an individual set of notions at all 3 stations of my sewing studio (sewing, cutting, and ironing) means I don't have to trudge across the room to get what I need because it's already right there. So I don't take the sewing station stuff to the ironing station, etc.

I think I love you! I’m an experienced sewer but new quilter and thought, well, “how hard can it be?” 😏 I found your channel when searching for tips on nesting seams and I just love your approach. Your channel could also be called “ Keeping it real quilting” as you are so honest and refreshingly real! You explained in terms I understood, you got straight to the point and didn’t waffle, you made me laugh and, well, I love your overalls 😅. With so many quilting channels, please know that you’ve just topped my preference list- in Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺 Keep up the good work and loving what you do Anne

All the above, I'll add; you present the perfect hand sewn gift, and horrors, the recipient picks off a loose thread...

Running out of bobbin thread when there's a few inches left happened just yesterday. It was exasperating!!!😂

Amen sister!

I have become fearless in my quilting after wasting 30 years of not quilting because of my fear of binding. I didn’t know how to do binding and 😮no one to show me until KZfaq! Once I got one under my belt, I was like, “that was it!?” Binding is easy and my favorite part of making quilts. I could have been quilting for decades!

😄This was fun. Thanks so much. Take care. Blessings to y'all.

You should write a book! So true for all of us. I think you have a fun way to share the journey of quilting. 😂

You’re so much fun! It’s like you’ve been right in my sewing room. 😆

Your local quilt shop, shows online, a great sale of a neutral fabric that would be perfect for backing a quilt...then you go to purchase and they only have 1 metre left of it!

When u show to family, a quilt top complete with borders, and the opinions on "if" you could've used a different color and width it be cool.

Thank you Christen😊

You are adorable. All of have our moments. Trying to hurry is my worst enemy.

These are great!😂 Sidenote; have you ever sown the quilts you have on display behind you? I’d love to see them open.

Nailed it with these laws!!! You "Get it"!

You are just so adorable! Enjoy your videos - I live in Alberta, Canada and sure wish my Walmart had as much as yours! I am 80 years old this November and about to have an eye operation where I have to be face down in a special chair for a week, I am sure going to miss my sewing room. My passion is making primitive dolls (lots of tea/coffee dying) but I enjoy making small wall hanging quilts, am a novice but luv watching quilt videos. Thanks for your videos🤗

I don’t need to backstitch, it won’t come undone……..

There will always be a wrinkle in the backing . And there will always be a rouge thread sandwiched in the quilt , its always dark even if you had no dark threads or fabric in your quilting space !

OMG. it's a perfect video and it's hilariously presented! Made my day!!!!!!😂❤

All of this and more has happened to me. Lately I’ve lost the ability to look on the bright side. I don’t remember the last time I laughed so hard. Thank you for this. I love it!!! Now it would be fantastic if you could fix things so that retroactively I actually place the things I put somewhere for safe keeping in the first place I look. Every single time.

Brilliant Video glad I am not the only one who has these problems Thank you for sharing with us

That one on the bobbin is so true, I hate to say how many times I had to do up a new bobbin because the one I was using ran out just inches from the quilt being done. Yes the dog has to go out at the most critical point of your sewing. Murphy's law is you just broke your last 90/14 and you have no choice but to use the 80/12's.

Love all of these - thread tension...ugh!

yes! declared a Fabric Buying Freeze, then ALL the fabrics on sale are MORE gorgeous.............thus far i have stood my ground.

So so true…I have a little sign stuck to my m/c “drop feed dogs” ! This caught me out twice while working on a long free motion project and switching off between sessions. Love your channel.

Thank so much.❤

My first quilt 40 yrs ago for my best friends baby. Yep, I left a pin in it. Luckily my friend caught it before putting in the crib.

omg, how did u know about my sewing life. 100% accurate… 😊

So funny 😂

This was too funny. Yeah, we've all had those times. 😅

OMG I am laughing so hard!!! I cycle through these on a weekly basis LOL!!!!

Been there, done that😂😂😂

I agree with all of your laws! Have a great stitching week, too.

Perfection. You got all the biggies. Been there, done that!!!

LOL SO SO TRUE

Love this video!

All of it is soooo true!

Thank you for all your wonderful insights and strategies to make gorgeous stuff! I started sewing things back over fifty years ago, and it was always garment construction. You know the drill: prewash the fabric, straighten it if it was wound crooked on the bolt, match the print across seams, rip it out if it's not right & sew 'til it is. Go with the tried and true, never innovate. Going for perfection. Murphy keeps handing me fabric that I love, but it's printed crooked. Arrrgh! Or I'm binge-watching quilting tutorials and see a great pattern/fabric line, but the video is more than a year old and they're not available any more. (This is forcing me to be more creative, so not all bad.) But I'm fascinated by the quilting world of today. Multiple half-square triangles. No-waste flying geese. One block wonders. Pre-cuts. Scrap-busters. What a lovely world we create in! -Sally from MO

P. S. Being an intrepid quilter helps quilty skill building--I'm glad that you led with your being an intrepid quilter.

I love your honesty, i have mess to clean up in my sewing room, but i put it in a pile and start something new. But keeping myself from fabric stores ,till i get the mess cleaned up 7:00

😂❤😂❤😊 I love this!

😂😂😂Murphy's Law😂😂😂so true...and I'm Irish... we have lots of Murphys.💞🤗🍀

OH my, all those have happened to me! Especially the fabric hoarding!

Fabric hoarding!? Mon Dieu! It is call pre-curating! Wait, wait, I have one for you. HST with two flanking triangles to make a HST Cat's Cradle block (before I knew it was called a Cat's Cradle or that there was a frickin ruler that made it Leisa-proof). In making the 2 piece part, I sewed about 100 of them with the flanking triangle turned about (side v. diagonal). When I pressed it open it looked like a wounded bird. Tears and cursing.

You nailed it

Lol you are so on point with all this!!! LOL love the and there might be 1 or 2 two more in the mail LOL LOL

Laughing. Great video. All and more happened to me.

The needle breaks and you don’t have another one, even though you ALWAYS make sure to buy extra needles!

You are just too cute. Love your videos.

I fill about 5-10 bobbins before starting a project. Usually don't need to fill anymore before finishing that project.

OMG. I am so burdened with 'fabric frenzy' . I simply cannot stop buying all those pretties out there . .😂

I have a good one. I sent this video to a friend because I recently spent hours trying to figure out why my stitches were loose. I rethreaded at least 50 times, bought a new bobbin case, changed the needle, new thread, etc. etc. All of a sudden everything was perfect, but not sure why. Right after I shared the video with her, I took a chunk out of my right hand pointer finger with my rotary cutter. Thank goodness it only started bleeding when I got into the bathoom. I wrapped it up tight (maybe too tight) and headed to the emergency room. I was there a total of 5 hrs 20 mins. Now if that isn't a quilt buster situation, I don't know what is. 🙄

Girl I feel ya...here I thought I was the only one that Murphy's law happens to. In the flow cutting squares, laying it out and realizing I cut them wrong and now I don't have the fabric I needed ..Ahhhh🤯

I have a quilt retreat next week, I’m going to get tons of stuff done then… lol 😂

That rotary cutter rulenis a fact for sure! Hahaha

Only been sewing for about a year & I can relate to every one of these! lol

Love this quilting episode. I was chuckling listening to you because all of that happens to me.

Great laws. Gotta keep sewing. ❤

"zero fear" - I'm here for a good time, not a long time

You nailed it! I cut up fabric "I thought " i didnt want into 10" squares. They get used more often than i thought they would.

Amen!

You are so right!! And this is funny!! Thanks!!

How about this one was in the middle of making a surprise quilt for my son and he surprised me with a visit saw the fabric on my table and said my sister will love that she likes that color way more than I do Can you guess what happened to it you got it UFO still there she doesn't like the color either lol

Block of the Month!! None of the blocks are 12 inches square!!!!!!!!!!

The fabric addiction is maddening!!!

Whenever I clean up and reorganize..the very next day I cannot find that pattern.. those cool scissors that actually cut.. not to mention that stack of fabric waiting to be cut. The memory gremlins have struck again.. 😂

This made me laugh out loud - so. much. truth!!

So true! It happens all the time!

Great video!! Thanks for the smile!

Oh My! My Mason name is Murphy! You are so right. 😂

If you use steam while pressing/ironing, the water reservoir in your iron will always be empty when you need it! 😂

I was making a trip around the world. Got down to the final sewing of all four piece and had sewn the last section on the wrong side even after checking as I went. Had to be friends with my seam ripped and undo the fourth section and re sew to correct.

Yes, it just happened to me this morning. The last 1/4 inch of sewing to finish my pillow case--the bobbin thread runs out! Good thing I have back up bobbins wound up and ready to 🧵 sew. What about the case of the distilled water all gone in my iron and so is the gallon that was just bought? 😮

The Lost Project rule. I had a collection of 123 blocks, out of 156 for the quilt. I brought them to show and tell and after I got home, I put them SOMEWHERE! I looked in all the logical places, repeatedly. Like 3 years later, I was doing some organizing in my kitchen. Lo and behold, there they were. I still have no idea why I dropped the bag in my kitchen rather than bringing it into my sewing area.

So many people say, "There are no rules in quilting." I KNEW it was a lie.🤣

Lol yes these all apply & will happen at the most inconvenient time! The 1 I would add is you completely run out of the color thread you need to complete your project. On a side note I had to look up what a 'Grimlin' was lol, all I could find was a 'Gremlin' & yes they are real!

There will always be one paper piece left in your completed EPP quilt. And you'll never even notice while quilting it, only way after the fact when you cuddle up with it.

The bobbin thing is real…😂

All of these this weekend plus more. I finally decided this weekend was not meant for me to sew. I will start again next weekend.

If you play fabric chicken ... "I have JUST enough of this one fabric for this quilt", you will be wrong. Hmmm, now what to do with that negative space?

When you clean out the sewing room (and downstairs and the back room) and send all the fabrics you won't need for AGES to the storage facility, the next project is going to need one of those fabrics. Corollary - when you carefully labelled almost every box with exactly what's inside it, the fabric you need won't be on any of the lists, and will probably be in one of the few-but-still-a-lot boxes with *no* label. Hmmm. Methinks I need to go to the storage place tomorrow ...

That’s so true, 😅 Australia 8:36am

Yes bobbin chicken is a real thing. Sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose.

The law that in the middle of an intricate section, the power will go out 😢

Okies, all those of course, but when you said wandering rotary cutter, I imagined the law of being in the cutting zone and, getting all those cuts right, until the one that you don't... The rotary cutter Veers off to the side at the end of one of your cuts.... 😮😢 Thanks for sharing that even experienced quilters are under Murphy's Law too. 🤪😉

There’s one more …. you accidentally knocked over your full glass of soda/drink or ice tea all over your workspace.

I found a lost safety pin a few days ago. Not with my foot or any other body part, but *as I was actually quilting,* between the top and the batting. I had to open a seam to get it out.

Sea rippers walks away no matter how many you have, never next to you

Can relate to all of these. How about you buy a quilting kit piece by piece and are working along just fine and return to the store to buy the last few squares only to find out they don't sell them anymore...not fun. It's either make up your own squares or figure out what else you can make with the squares you have.

So after Christmas in 2019, I cleaned out my fabric and 8 Low and behold came the pandemic and I had to use most of my licensed character fabric to supply everyone with the free masks I sewed up.

you forgot the 'it's too pretty to cut' law. If you have a GREAT! fabric that you just love you can't cut it bc you are saving it for a special project. Which doesn't come along till it is at least 5 years out of style. Hence the train printed red baby corduroy fabric in a box under my sewing table....Since we lived in FL at the time and nobody wants to wear or sleep under corduroy in Florida right?

I was doing a project that I was using my seam gauge. It’s kind of dumb to have a sentimental sewing tool, but this seam gauge I had had since I started sewing many years ago. I was using it and then I couldn’t find it. I was going nuts looking for it in my sewing room. How can it be there one minute and then just disappear? I spent more than an hour going through my entire room, but it was just gone. Then after a lot of heavy frustration, I noticed that the drawer on my black dresser in the room was slightly open. I looked in that drawer and there was my seam gauge. It had been knocked off my sewing table and I guess the table is close enough to that dresser that it landed in that drawer. It was so bizarre, but I was very happy that I found it. I know I could buy a new one for pretty cheap, but I was just so happy to have found it. Now don’t ask me how many tools have fallen off the table and landed in the trash can. We now have a rule that the trash in my sewing room has to be gone through before it goes out.

All are so, so true! The exact situation with the sewing machine tension happened yesterday. I couldn't get that tension right no matter what and I must have fussed with it off & on for 3 hours yesterday. I've been putting off getting my machine serviced, and I think it was telling me, take me in NOW - I won't cooperate until I get some TLC!!

LOL!!! All so true