I've just done such a stupid thing!

[ReallyJustBloodyDidThat]

I've name changed, as this level of stupidity cannot be connected to me 😜.

I've spent around 16 hours over the past three days on a very complicated cross stitch. I've just noticed that I had the bloody canvas turned portrait instead of landscape! Arrrrgggggghhhhh!!! I'm going to have to unpick everything I've done so far 😩😩😭😭.

Can somebody please say something to make me feel better about my fuck-up? So I can know I'm not alone? Please...

@SilverySurfer
I felt so sad for you reading that. My nan does x stitch, tapestry, crochet and lace making. Oh and more recently she's starting quilting. I know how much hard work and love goes into what you've just described

I am currently resting my feet on a box which contains my cross stitch. Why is it in a box? Because almost finished a beautiful wedding present and realised I stitched it into the dam hoop. After I’d moved the hope to do the edge. So the stitches are right in the middle. I haven’t the heart to snip it out and check the damage.
I feel your pain.

The thing that lights the gas cooker stopped working. I phoned a cooker engineer but he didn't return my call. Oh well I thought and I bought one of those lighter gun things and we used that.

A couple of years later a fuse went in one of the sockets on the kitchen wall. This drew my attention to the sockets on the wall, which I had never paid attention to before really. One was marked "hob" and it was off. I turned it on, pressed the button . . . tick tick tick. HOW many of those lighter guns had I bought for £2.99 each since my hob "broke"?

I tried to make chicken carbonara, but poured the sauce onto raw chicken breasts and stuck it in the oven. It didn't have any instructions on the jar, so I drove to the supermarket and scoured numerous packets and other jars and it said I should have cooked the chicken first. It took about two hours longer to cook than it should have. I should have just thrown it away and started from scratch, but I battled on. Really surprised we didn't get bad tummies from it, but we didn't.
Don't feel bad, we all do daft things, especially when we don't pay attention to the instructions.
Hope you can salvage this in some way.

Why don't you just overlay with a second piece of canvas?

I spent weeks trying to fix the sound on my laptop because I couldn't get YouTube videos working. Googling every solution possible, must have uninstalled and reinstalled about a dozen different things. Only to then realise I had bloody YouTube on mute.

Have just ordered two Dimensions kits after reading this thread.

Called out a plumber because there was almost no pressure in the water. Took him all of about 30 seconds to find the stopcock and announce that it wasn't switched on properly. .

My ex & I were building a big IKEA Expedit - the bookcases with the cubes. Finished slotting all the bits together at about 1am.

As we started to stand it up... it slowly fell apart into a pile of slats.

Not fun.

I once started a thread asking if people thought that I was a total pillock, for trying to jimmy the lid from a (pressurised) can of gold paint with a craft knife. It didn't end well, and I'm still finding spatters of gold paint in various parts of the flat.

I even included pictures of me looking like a crap version of King Midas.

Oh - and the general consensus was that I am most definitely a grade A gold-platedpillock 😅

Agerbilatemycardigan At least you looked fabulous

I sympathise, my latest one will be my last big, complicated one think after a mix up with half stitches and x stitches with all different numbers of threads. I wanted it for my baby's 2nd Christmas, he's nearly 7!

My DH will agree the large amount of swearing that has accompanied this pastime...

This is my next project - at the end of the decade when I finish the snow scene one, at the rate I'm going and unpicking!

@ReallyJustBloodyDidThat I feel your pain.

I've completed cross stitches to discover I don't have enough margin to frame them before now. My most recent idiocy though was when I personalised a baby grow for someone with a big colourful cross stitched initial stitched onto the front using waste canvas. Finished it, looked good, started to unpick the waste canvas. Got fed up unpicking the strands so decided to use scissors on the unstitched area to speed things up - and cut through the feckin baby gro. Had to go in the bin. I was so gutted I just went out and bought something different rather than starting again,

I nearly started a thread yesterday about having a funny patch in the left side of my vision (so in my left eye) one day, then the next day it was in the right side of my vision (so in my right eye) but when I closed my right eye it was STILL THERE when I was only using my left eye so it can't be either of my eyes IT MUST BE MY BRAAAAAAAIN! I got almost all of this typed into a "start a new thread" box, then I suddenly remembered about binocular vision and quietly deleted the thread and slunk away from my computer in some shame.

slunk away from my computer in some shame - I think we've all done that 😂😂😂

ReallyJust start with the bum on that new one! And then if it all goes horribly wrong, you can make that into a card for someone!

I once rang Sky and arranged an engineer to look at it and spent six days without television because it had stopped working. He came out, took a look at it, pressed the "source" button on my remote and it flickered into life. I have never been so embarrassed in all my life. I KNOW I have to do that so why I couldn't realise that for six days is beyond me blush

Haha, I had something like this too - spent a week without Internet only to realise I'd plugged the cable into the wrong phone socket.

I’ve got a large piece which I put loads of work into but think the instructions to use three threads rather than two were wrong - the stitches look messy as they are so thick (it’s on 12 count I think). So it’s been sitting in my work basket for a year or so because I can’t carry on but can’t bear to unpick and start again.

A few years ago I made my son a costume and cut arms the same thickness all the way down so he couldn’t move his shoulders. I’ve no idea why as I sew quite regularly.

whatkatydidnext1
@SilverySurfer I felt so sad for you reading that. My nan does x stitch, tapestry, crochet and lace making. Oh and more recently she's starting quilting. I know how much hard work and love goes into what you've just described flowers

Oh how kind, thank you and your name was my favourite book as a child, along with 'What Katy Did'

I made my friend a sampler for her 21st birthday. Finished it, got it framed then realised in the quote I'd stitched I'd used j's for lower case L's. No idea how I'd managed that! Too late to do anything about it as well.

@SilverySurfer
You never know, your beautiful work may have ended up in the hands of someone who really appreciated it.

I don’t know if anyone on here watches The Big Bang Theory, but last night Raj was attempting to personalise a baby vest. He placed the motif on the vest and put the whole thing under the needle of the machine -so he was seeing both sides of the vest together. I can’t have been the only crafter yelling at the TV.

And he is supposed to be clever, with his PhD in Astrophysics.

SpottedGingham
Knitting in the garden chatting away I inadvertently knitted myself into the deckchair. My DD was wheezing with laughter.

How? Just how did you do that?

ReallyJust start with the bum on that new one! And then if it all goes horribly wrong, you can make that into a card for someone! Now there's an idea .

I finished unpicking it! Actually, I just used a stitch ripper - I don't have the time or energy to unpick it stitch by stitch, and the thread is never the same afterwards anyway. Now I just hope I don't run out of thread lol.

And... here we go again!

I was wondering that too LyingWitch.