Free Giveaways At Da Godmuvvas
This month Da Godmuvva is celebrating the opening of her "Godmuvva's Attic" blog with two free giveaways. Please tell Godmuvva your worst crafting disaster, and you will automatically go in the draw for a prize. Godmuvva is giving away two seperate prizes..........There are three lovely fat quarters or three balls of mohair for the best stories. Please say, when you share your story, whether you would like to win the fat quarters or the mohair. It's that simple. So please drop in and pull up a seat and Godmuvva will make you a cuppa & donut ...........
while we sit and enjoy your story. Last day for sharing stories will be August 15, so let's have some fun!!!
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Hi I'm new to blogging too so I thought I'd pop over and say hello. I love crafting but I have many disasters because I can't/won't follow a pattern.I'm so impatient I rush ahead,things are not perfect but you know I'm still overjoyed that I have produced something I think that's what crafting is all about. If I win I would love the fat quarters please.
ReplyDeleteOh and pop over and say hello.
Karen
Hi Jennie! My quilting disaster- was when I decided, after seeing a "Storm at Sea" quilt in an old "QUILT" magazine, that I would make one- all handpieced as I normally do. Spent one afternoon with my teensy cardbord triangle template drawing and cutting 100's of the little pieces, only to discover I had cut the wrong colour.:) Waste of hours, waste of fabric, a very aching back, and a verrrrry cranky me!!!!
ReplyDeleteYour blog is fun...I came from Judith's blog. Colour runs from needleturned red fabric on a cream background certainly taught me to wash before stitching! Have fun!
ReplyDeleteHi Jennie and welcome to the blogging community.I know just how you feel as I felt like you did when I started my blog a little while ago now.
ReplyDeleteMy worst craft disaster was when I did a quilt for my neice ( my 1st ) and I was proudly showing it off to my sister and as you do you flick it out onto the floor to display said quilt,take a step and then hear this horrible ripping noise.In the process I'd stepped onto a corner of the quilt and when I flicked it I'd ripped a seam.It was my first quilt and as you do....you don't read the instructions properly and I hadn't sewn any of my seams a 1/4" hence the rip.
My heart just sank when I heard it.But after a few heart palpitations my sister calmed me down and we managed to fix it together after searching frantically for the right seam for ages and that's why I alaways read and re-read my instructions before I start on a project.A lesson well and painfully learnt :) barb.
Hi Jeannie, I have been sent over from Judith's blog...you have a beautiful blog...My worst crafting experience was when I was doing a free standing lace on my embroidery machine and decided to go into the other room while it was sewing, well....the next thing I heard was a loud noise and my design jammed up all in my machine and literally lifted out the bobbin base of the machine...my design was a total disaster and my machine now needs repairs....maybe the mohair will be better for me..then I'm not useing a machine!!
ReplyDeleteHi Jennie,
ReplyDeleteWelcome to blogland! I'm sure you will find it worth the effort and lot's of fun. I'm a fabric girl myself, and the most memorable disaster I can recall was when I was learning to sew. I was making a dress with Mum's help, was lengthening it, and snip, off it came along the bottom of the pattern instead of where it was marked for extension. Consequently I ended up with an attractive line of piping there to join in the extra length. A lesson in itself and the start of creativity?? It was only the beginning...
Have fun!
Oh I am first:D Sweet.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the new blog. My worst disaster was sewing a baby jacket and finding the sleeves sown on the wrong way. That was 25 years ago and I now pin then on with safety pins and check they are the right way....lol
Love to have the fat 1/4's if I am picked.......
Good luck blogging its fun.
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ReplyDeleteI'm glad that I'm not blonde any more! Since I had brain surgery I'm now sliver grey - yahoo! Craft disasters - made my first quilt but I didn't know how do square the blocks without losing the block design. Finally, I found someone from Coopooroo Quilters Guild display to show me what to do but now I have to find the bag where I put the blocks to finish the quilt! Oh dear. Just as well I have made other quilts. If I win I would like to have the FQs, Jennie. I enjoyed your new blog - keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteWelcome to the blogging world! Sure you'll have lots of fun! My biggest craft disaster is in the process right now, a shaggy cot quilt backed in polar fleece which unfortuantly is stretching as I sew causing great distress!!!! I'd love the fat quarters.
ReplyDeleteHi Jennie and one of my worse events with crafting would be making a dress for a friend and the dress got coffee spilled on it and then when I was ironing it the iron was too hot and scorched it!! Disasterous attempt at making a dress for my friend. Forget dressmaking!! I would love to win the fat quarters please:)
ReplyDeleteHi Jennie...congratulations on getting your blog up and running. I had a disaster recently when I was making up my design of a dog's quilted mat for the Handmade magazine. I used the thick polyester wadding and I was starting to iron the top of the quilt when my "dear one" appeared in the doorway with some story to tell and distracted me. As I was gazing into his eyes (lol), I held the hot iron on the top of the quilt and without knowing it I melted the wadding in one spot down to nothing.....had to burn the midnight oil and make the whole thing again, so I could meet the deadline. The quilt is still sitting in the "got to be fixed basket".
ReplyDeleteHugs..Judith
p.s. fat quarter draw for me please.
Well of course I'd love to win new fabric but I may need to start a whole new blog just to tell of my disasters . I took the doors off a cupboard and painted a lovely scene on them and when I went to put them back on , yep , painted upside down !!!!
ReplyDeleteI have a disaster every time I start a new project! hehe Not one of my quilts has had its seams sewn once, I always have to unpick something because I just go bull at a gate, and mess up! But thats not going to stop me! Fabric is my life! I can't go a single day without stitching at least 1 stitch!
ReplyDeleteIf you want a laugh, check out this site, Its one of my favourites when I need a giggle. http://craftfail.com/
Hugs Paula
I have the same problem as Sew little fabric!!! every piece i sew has had to have its seams unpicked and redone at some stage.
ReplyDeleteTks for your generosity. Would love the fat quarters!
In my mid-teens along time ago, I made myself a cabled jumper, knitting on the train to and from school. That turned out well so mum bought wool for me to make one for my sister, six years younger. It had a Norwegian snow flake design on the yoke. (I did say a LONG time ago!) I knitted it up and followed the chart for what looked like Fair Isle knitting. I was totally inexperienced in colour work and had no idea it was really done in duplicate stitch later. I also did not know to carry the floats loosely over the back of the knitting.
ReplyDeleteWhen I finished the first piece, I held up for inspection a totally misshapen, tightly knitted bit of fabric. The supposed Fair Isle was so pulled in that the snowflake design could not be recognised. I refused to do any more of it, even after an experienced knitter helped me with it. Funny that, Mum never bought me more wool and I had to wait till I was at uni to buy more for myself. I'm sure mohair would help exorcise that awful memory, LOL.
i cant think of just one- i sew and crotchet without patterns all the time, so i have many disasters.
ReplyDeleteLast year i actually used a pattern and tried to crotchet a ball for my kids. The first half came out perfect and round...then for some reason as i followed the pattern for the 2nd half of the ball it didnt round out. It just kept getting longer and longer in the wrong direction. So my ball pretty much looks like a giant turd (or as my daughter calls it a hershey's kiss). It worked out ok in the end though because my girls still love to play with it :)
I would love to win the fat quarters.
Thanks
Congrats on a wonderful blog
ReplyDeleteI would love to enter your giveaway for the fat quarters
I have had many crafting disasters as I tend to rush to get things finished My latest disaster was a quilt I was making for my daughter and some how pulled every border to tight and the end result was a totally warped quilt (a bit like me really) and I just couldnt get the thing to sit flat to put together I had to take off 4 borders It turned out ok in the end