The Design Feature Thread

[Bill]

I've always had a dark sense of humour and find myself amused by the lighthearted misfortune of others.
I'm hoping this thread serves 2 purposes.

1) Entertainment in the mistakes design features of our sewing adventures.

2) The reassurance that even the best of us (clearly not me) make unplanned alterations.

Here goes...

[Bill]

My 3rd attempt at a box bag this week has also took a deviation from its planned route. The zip should have been sewn on the other edges as I wasn't planning on a long tunnel bag 

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[KayK]

I have recently finished my 'end of two year course' quilt assessment - a 5' square bed topper, appliquéd, quilted, bordered etc.  We have to add a 'hanging sleeve' across the top so that they can be hung up for their display at a quilt show.  I carefully and beautifully hand stitched mine, really level, pleased with myself.

However:
On turning the quilt over I had managed to stitch the wretched sleeve to the side and not to the top...........

Much swearing and unpicking........and not very good sewing it back on, with a caveat that it is for temporary use only as it needs to go on a bed!

Pillock.

[HenriettaMaria]

About three or four weeks ago I made my son a pocket for his handwriting input device thingy for his school laptop.  Measured carefully, made a paper pattern.  Cut it out.  Sewed it up.  Looked beautiful.  Only problem: I omitted the seam allowances on the sides so the tablet didn't fit!

[Bill]

I'm in the middle of doing a new machine cover.

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Last night after filling the bobbin with new thread I set off stitching the top squares to the long strip.
Imagine my surprise when having finished stitching, I pulled the lot out from under the presser foot to have it fall apart again.
Guess who forgot to rethread the needle? Doh!

[Ploshkin]

It takes a bit of imagination to pass off falling apart as a design feature - but not impossible 

[Sewingsue]

Well it makes a change from the usual empty bobbin situation.

[fajita]

Did you know that when sewing diamonds ♦️ ♦️ together, if you get the wrong bits aligned you end up with a little pyramid.

[Iminei]

And how is the Pyramid Quilt @fajita  ????

[fajita]

It’s just a block for the boom sewalong, @Iminei
I had hoped it was finished, but the seams took up slightly more room than calculated expected, so will have to add an extra row.

I don’t like Y-seams. 

[Iminei]

But your July Brucie Bonus Block from last years BOM was lovely @fajita

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Heres a linky to the album for those who missed it/are interested

[fajita]

Lol. What a memory. I’d forgotten that. And it has triangles in it, this current one does not have triangles.

[Bill]

I measured the top of the machine...not the bottom. 

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[HenriettaMaria]

We've all done daft things like that....

You could insert a godet to permit it to flare at the bottom.

[Ploshkin]

You could insert a godet to permit it to flare at the bottom. 

Thatv would be a genuine design feature