I posted an “oops” the other day on Instagram and Facebook. Not a major crazy problem. Just an oops. The kind of thing that happens all the time. You can make the same exact thing 47 times and on the 48th, if you’re not paying attention or you’re distracted by a phone call or a knock on the door or a kid demanding attention or you’re thinking about how to get a kid to try the freaking soup already and all of a sudden you realize. Oops. Whooooops.
They’re especially likely when it’s late. Or you haven’t slept well. And your mind is wandering.
Not long after the oops I realized I hadn’t stretched the neckband enough while I was sewing. Oops. Again, not a crisis. Just a thing. But I was tired. I’m trying to behave somewhat normally during the day but the fact remains that I haven’t had a “normal” night’s sleep since maybe last June. So there I was with my seam ripper (still love this one though I added the handle that’s made to go with it) and this is what my sleep-deprived mind saw:
Feel free to tell me in the comments that I’m not a total freak for making this leap. Or your best “oops”. We all like to know we’re not alone in an abundance of oops moments.
Totally agree! When I am tired….fuh-get-about-it! Mistakes galore…….that’s when I just cut my loses and take a break. Mistakes with the serger are the worst!
I just had to seam rip a served seam twice, because I made the same mistake, twice! I’m learning, never sew when sleepy!
The other night I serged a really loooong seam (about 5 or 6 feet) together backwards. And I was so tired that for some reason I sat in near-darkness trying to unpick the stitches (black thread on black fabric) for nearly a half-hour before I thought to turn the lights up. No explanation for that one.
i was making my first pair of jeans the other day and sewed the waistband on with the fabric going in the wrong direction. i had to unpick the topstitching and the waistband…gah!
Yep – sewing while tired is banned at my house, that is always when I make huge errors. Like cutting two shirt fronts and no back. The other day, I was serging the crotch of new shorts and somehow managed to serge 6 inches of the short leg while I was trying to tail off. What?! I was so glad it only caught the edge and they didn’t get chopped, too!
I did something like that once… and I just threw the whole thing in the trash. I didn’t have the energy to deal with it. I’m pretty sure that the next day I picked it back out and fixed it, but in that moment, I just needed it to be gone.
Do you want a tip for removing serger thread easily ? Don’t cut it, pull on the 2 paralels threads (the two threads of the needles) with something like this tool : http://www.artdufil.fr/artdufil/992-large/poincon-a-bout-rond-clover-.jpg
Slide the “point” under the the 2 threads at the same time, 1 inch from the begining of the seam, and pull them completely. Then, slide the “point” 1 or 2 inches farther, pull the 2 threads completely and go on until the end of the seam.
When it’s done, pull on the 2 left threads, they are not fixed anymore and will come with no difficulty :-)
(sorry if my message is difficult to understand, english is not my language, but try this tip next time you have to remove serger thread, it worth it ! :-) )
Hi there but there again were would we be without out bestest friend in the world of sewing lol lol
Jan uk
Oooops lol I mean our seam rippers lol lol
Jan uk
Oh poop! When those kind of oops start happening (and I’m seeing things in my project) I need to wall away. Otherwise I’m likely to repeat the same damn mistake again.
Oh yes walked away many a time (do what me and my best friend do Just say very slowly slowly ) And Breathhhhh belive me it does work honest it does