Lessons I learned from sewing

[anotheranon]

>In an argument between the needle and your finger, the needle
>always wins.
>~
>When tempted to toss the sewing machine through the
>window, don't. It always gets the last laugh when you take it
>into the shop and pay to replace the glass.
>~
>When you have a deadline, everything that can go wrong, will
>go wrong. Six times.
>~
>The seamripper is our friend. Especially when we want to jam
>it into something.
>~
>Sewing implements make great torture tools. Just ask the
>pitiful fabric scraps huddling in terror in my stash.
>~
>Our skin is NOT needle/pin/scissor/seamripper proof.
>Contrary to popular belief.
>~
>Everything in its place and a place for everything.
>Does it count when everything is everywhere?
>~
>It's not a good project until it looks like the fabric monster
>sneezed in your workroom.
>It's not a great project until it looks like the fabric monster
>sneezed in your house.
>~
>When in doubt, you might as well start over, because you've
>likely messed up ten times already.
>~
>Coffee is our friend. However, coffee and fabric are NOT.
>~
>If you can eat it and make a mess, you're bound to crave it
>while working on something.
>~
>Sewing + sleepy = Frankenstein's Monster
>~
>I am a grouch in the morning. I am a grouch when working.
>Enter the workroom in the morning at your own peril.
>Enter the workroom...ever... at your own peril.
>~
>If you drop a needle, you will find it. With your foot.
>~
>Say it with me. The iron is hot...
>~
>When using a water soluble pen on fabric, it's a halfway smart
>idea not to use the steam setting on the iron afterward...
>~
>Creativity is a two edged sword. You know, the kind you can
>wedge between two rocks and fall on?
>~
>Your dummy is NOT an oversized voodoo doll.
>Although...
>~
>Repetition is a good thing.
>~
>Repetition is... Who am I kidding?
>Repetition is for the birds.
>~
>There's always room for error.
>The trick is leaving room to get it right.
>~
>When you can't do nuthin right, don't do nuthin at all.
>Take a break!
>~
>It's always best to take time to smell the roses.
>Doing so while in a straight jacket is ever so much better.
>~
>Relax, have fun. You wouldn't be doing this unless you
>wanted to. Right? Right!?!
>~
>Never stop learning and always be able to laugh at your
>mistakes.
>Everyone else is...

Comments

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh how TRUE!!!!!!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Especially the one about the "fabric monster"! I swear, everything I work on manages to creep out of the basement, up the stairs, sometimes into the guest room...

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

The Fabric Monster is the ONLY way to sew ... I couldn't possibly function if I couldn't see everything bit of my supplies at once.

That list also touched home because the other night, while not at my most alert, I cut out a shirt that has two distinct pattern pieces for the right and left fronts (with the traditional "cut 1" printed right on each of 'em), and, out of habit, pinned 'em to folded cloth and cut out two of each! Silly SILLY JLS! :p