Saturday, August 14, 2010

Day Fourteen Giveaway Question

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Today's question is:

What was your worst crafting disaster?

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42 comments:

  1. Knitting - I am so not a good knitter looked like the moths had got to it!

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  2. Sewing clothes - just not my thing. I mentioned in an earlier question that my mum helped me do my school sewing project and I got 10/10 and then I did one myself and got 2/10. My husband won't let me buy a sewing machine because he knows how bad I am but I ask just for a cheap one for papercrafts - STILL NO :-( faux stitching for me.

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  3. Smudging all over my calligraphy project when I was up to the last letters.

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  4. knitting - my knitting project was a jumper for my son, he was six months when I started and by the time I had finished it he had outgrown it ... okay so he was a year old but honestly ... did he have to grow that fast that quick LOL, oh and a scarf that I started in 2004, its half finished and is still in the bag if anyone wants to complete it for me - I CAN'T knit ... there I've said it LOL

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  5. Burning the faux frosting on one of my 'cupcake' cards.

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  6. hmmm using non - non acid free craft glue when I first started scrap booking, haven't seen the effects yet but I'm told it's not good....

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  7. hummm, I think it was probably in high school, doing woodwork, I put the chisel through my thumb nail!!!!

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  8. mine too is sewing, at school i had to make a jumper, with a pattern, well the sleeves went just past my elbows and the base of the jumper went to my knees. I failed that class lol

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  9. My friends and I have a saying, 'There is no such thing as a crafting disaster, only and excuse to use an embellishment'!!
    Can't think of a particular disaster, but I am a tragic when it comes to sewing!

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  10. Mine was an oil painting for art @ highschool... I just couldn't get the right effect and it was still wet when I submitted it for my portfolio - oops!

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  11. Myhands seem to attract ink from stamps/pads very easily and miraculously appear where it is not wanted! TRhe worst being as I was picking up a finished, very intricate wedding card and thoroughly ruining it beyond redemption
    Anne Wakefield

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  12. Gosh too many to list really, but I guess knitting has to be my worst, as I am totally hopeless at it! Well, unless you count my inability to draw to save my life!! ;-)

    No, knitting! My Mum has had to rescue my knitting for me all my life. Thank goodness I discovered paper crafting!! lol.

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  13. I carn't sew always ends up as rags. Love knitting, but knitted a jumper for my son, do know what happened, but was to big for him, but it fitted my brother though, must have read the pattern wrong, I only have artistic misshaps with my card making and scrapbooking and only I know those Heather Sherry

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  14. I have tried many crafts- but my worst attempts involved trying to embroider with silk ribbon and "folk art" painting!! Thank goodness I discovered stamping!! Robyn Clarke

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  15. I spent the other day going through one of my first scrapbooks, which i was so proud of at the time.... looking back at it now though, its a disaster!

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  16. Nothing to do with my current craft but when i was at high school I did sewing and I wasn't the best ( was great at unpicking) so I decided to ask a friend to help so she sewed my jumper but instead of sewing the sleeve seam she sewed one half of the sleeve to the body of the jumper... So I then had to use my great unpicking skills to undo the jumper and I eventually sewed it myself... Kind of a combined craft disaster I guess but still had to do with me!!

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  17. Sewing! I'm horrible at sewing. I have 2 brothers and they both managed to pass our mandatory 1 semester of sewing in yr 7. I however have legless boxer shorts and a bag that doesn't carry anything lol!

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  18. It's probably a good thing that I can't think of anything that has been a total disaster... must mean I don't dwell on the negatives, right?
    I remember though trying to watermark some patterned paper with my versamark pen and it bled everywhere and just looked awful. I'll never do that again (without testing on a scrap bit first!)

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  19. Mine would be when I was learning to knit. My nana started for me and a day later I had holes everywhere so I thought I would pull it apart and start again - it was then that I learnt that there was a thing called casting on.

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  20. mine is knitting too. I started a cardigan for my little niece and it finally got finshed for my next niece which was 3 years later.

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  21. I don't believe in craft disasters ... they are excuses to do something different ... create new techniques ... think outside the square :)
    xo

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  22. leaving my craft room door unlocked with a 3yo in the house...........

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  23. Think knitting might be mine...I always seem to pickup/drop stitches without realising and basic scarves are the only thing I've been able to achieve as the 'oopsie daisies' are usually not too noticeable! lol:)

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  24. Yes I don't do knitting either, but I have many stamping mistakes disasters etc, but like I tell all my guests at stamping parties just turn the cardstock over!!

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  25. No big disasters stand out, but I'm really good at picking up ink and spreading it on a nicely finished card right where it's not supposed to be - grrrrr.

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  26. Tried to knit a hat once as a Fathers Day gift for my husband......it ended up so huge it looked like a hoodie! So I unpicked and tried again. Ended up with a hat big enough for a new born! .... so I gave up! It was very Funny though. Chantell

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  27. No real disasters but lots of oops moments. Then I just try to salvage what I can and start again. Sometimes it can be better than the original.
    Mary

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  28. The day I put the sewing machine needle through my finger comes to mind!!!

    Glenda K

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  29. My worst craft disaster was having a sewing machine fall on my head when I was a child! It probably explains a few things.... Oh and I still have the scar to prove it! I can still remember the hospital wrapping me up very tightly so my arms were wrapped tight by my sides and a nurse saying snug as a bug in a rug.

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  30. Worst craft disaster was making stained glass angels - a friend and I spent ages trying to cut glass and solder the lead edging and all we got at the end was lots of shards of broken glass and not a Christmas angel to be seen. And the lady on Better Homes and Gardens made it look so easy!

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  31. Worst crafting disaster - attempting knitting! Just not interested, I'll leave that craft to Mum. Papercrafts are so much better.

    Lisa H

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  32. I have had no major disasters but am not good at glue and glitter.
    I now use glue with the aid of a tooth pick and glitter.........well.....I am better known as the glitter fairy.Get the idea?
    Christine

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  33. The worst disaster for me was when my son at the age of 3 decided to "look" through mummy's sorted and organised box of 2000 photos. Then he tought it woulbe be fun to stick some of the together with the tape runner. I took me months to get all those photos back into some sort of order.

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  34. My dog reaping havock on my newly opened box of stamping up paper, It was mine for about an hour..I could still use it all if I wanted confetti or shredded paper

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  35. I have issues with glue, thinking I have just enough on the embellishment but it turns out to be too much,so next issue is how do you remove it!! Just as well we have a glue rubber to remove the excess.

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  36. whilst doing embroidery I managed to sew the piece I was working on to my skirt............
    Diana

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  37. No such thing as a disaster!! It is called rustic. Lol

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  38. I'm going to have to say knitting as well.... I drop stitches and create them and then some in the next row - and to this day have no idea how!

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  39. When screen printing on a t-shirt I knocked over the paint and it went all over the t-shirt and floor. I was more frustrated that I had wasted all the paint!!

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  40. Probably would have to be sewing. Just don't have the patience for it, even sewing up hems. I have to re do them every now and then because they come apart!

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  41. sewing, my first attempt was making matching dresses for my 4 year old daughter and niece. They wore them once each and they ended up inthe rag pile...SOOOO bad!

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  42. Sewing. Did the class at school and had to sew around a square. It didn'te end up to be a square. I destroyed the needle and had a lot of fun getting the knotts out. The when I left school I had to sew on a button and that meant that you couldn't put the button whole over the button and do it up. To add to that mum couldn't get the button off without distroying the shirt. Their goes that silk shirt. As a guide leader we sew up bags and all the other leaders say if the girls can do it so can you so I tried to help a girl to sew up a square bag and there was about 5cms of knotts. Ha but I am good at getting knotts out of things.

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