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I've just done such a stupid thing!

129 replies

ReallyJustBloodyDidThat · 03/11/2017 10:58

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...

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pickleypockley · 03/11/2017 23:41

Another time I came out of tesco express jump in my car, throw my shopping on the passenger seat went to get my glasses and realise I was in the wrong car!!! Being tight and not paying for a bag I had to quickly gather my shopping and get out quick Blush

LentilWeavingBsc · 04/11/2017 09:33

SpottedGingham I'm with LyingWitch - how did you knit yourself into a deckchair?! We need a diagram!

SDTG 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.

You weren't! Grin

DailyMailReadersAreThick · 04/11/2017 10:49

HaplessHousewife Thank you!

Zaphodsotherhead, you reminded me of the first time I read a paper book after using a Kindle for months. I was confused at why the page wasn't turning, then realised I was jabbing it with a finger instead of, you know, turning it...

SilverySurfer · 04/11/2017 12:39

I wonder if any of you cross stitchers have ever tried tapestries? You can buy in kit form and some are really beautiful. However, if you ever win the lottery, buy your canvasses and wool from this shop in London: www.tapisserie.co.uk/designs/cushions.html the canvasses are hand painted and the prices are seriously eye watering - I treated myself to a cushion cover canvass when I retired, couldn't afford one now Sad

midgetgem2211 · 04/11/2017 13:27

**SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius I was telling at the tv as well, my husband just looked at me like I was mad.

scaryteacher · 04/11/2017 14:53

I use Ehrman for my tapestry kits, and am going to have a bash at doing counted, as I have some books with lovely charts in.

Gingernaut · 04/11/2017 15:22

,,,,am going to have a bash at doing counted, as I have some books with lovely charts in.

That's how it starts @scaryteacher. Don't say you weren't warned....

MipMipMip · 04/11/2017 15:35

Is that new one a john Clayton one? He does amazing light.

I'm not admitting to my mistakes. It would fill the thread. But darning on the sewing machine does tend to end up with a lot of unpicking.

Original poster
ReallyJustBloodyDidThat · 04/11/2017 17:29

No MipMip - it's a pattern I bought off Etsy. Unless the woman didn't really design it like she claims lol.

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keenoonvino · 04/11/2017 17:50

I once made a pair of curtains (with help), trying to be a domestic goddess, when really I can’t even sew a name tag on. I was so pleased with myself, couldn’t wait to hang them up, so pulled that thread thing at the top to make them “hangable.” Only I forgot to tie up the other end, and only realised after the whole damn thing came out in my hand. 😩 it took me 3 hours to painstakingly thread the fucking thing back through....

LaurieF · 04/11/2017 17:52

This one was my husband not me... building a bed in narrow box room for teenage DS, told DH multiple times that the way he was building base meant we wouldn't be able to turn it in narrow room... DH of course knew best. I shut up and let him get on with it. Obviously we then had to turn it very awkwardly length ways breaking the bedroom light and taking a gouge out of the ceiling! He still won't admit that I was right 😂

DagenhamRoundhouse · 04/11/2017 18:13

Presumably you don't have someone you love dying of cancer? Then if not you've nothing to complain about. You need to get things into perspective.

Gingernaut · 04/11/2017 18:18

You got the right thread there @DagenhamRoundhouse? Hmm

Who did you address that rather bitter post to? Hmm

HumpHumpWhale · 04/11/2017 19:20

I was making a dress a few years ago with a full circle skirt using a beautiful floral print cotton sateen. I had to cut the skirt sections flat instead of folded as they were so large. Cut out the back left side of the skirt. Then cut out another back left side. Swore a lot, went back to the shop, bought more fabric, took it home... And cut out another fucking back left hand side. I think I had bought enough that I didn't have to go back for more but I was so annoyed! I had so much fabric in those panels that I've since made a pencil dress out of them.

fluffiny31 · 04/11/2017 19:32

Op I feel your pain. I've been doing an angel baby cross stitch (for my lost baby) it's got something like 40 thousand stitches obviously doubled and I kept miss counting where to stitch from so had to take loads out. It actually made me cry. Sad it was on the face and feathers to so couldn't even bodge it.

OutToGetYou · 04/11/2017 19:34

"so pulled that thread thing at the top to make them “hangable.” Only I forgot to tie up the other end, and only realised after the whole damn thing came out in my hand."

It is my mission in life to get curtain manufacturers to put bloody instructions on them. Course, you only do this once, but (after making that mistake once) last time I hung curtains, a few weeks ago, I did the knot, gathered, knotted, put the hooks on, hung them - had gathered too tightly for the width. Could I undo the bloody knot? Well, no.

I did in the end but had to leave it two days until my patience had returned and then pick at it very carefully. Now I know to tie in a bow until you're sure of the gather.

On the feedback form to Dunelm about the purchase I was very clear that they need to put some instructions, everything else has pages and pages of instructions but curtains? Oh no, we're just supposed to know or something!

Pearlsaringer · 04/11/2017 19:40

Just think of the value you are getting out of this kit in terms of hours worked! I tried knitting a complicated Aran pattern whilst in labour. Had to unpick the bloody lot.

Elledouble · 04/11/2017 19:42

Mine are mostly flat pack furniture related! I put the bottom of my son’s chest of drawers on backwards so there’s a rough edge with no beading on it.

When I was putting together our Pax wardrobes I dropped a shelf as I tried to put it in, and the corner of it went through the base and left a big hole. Those wardrobes were my birthday present and I sat on the floor and cried.

You can’t see it with the drawers in, but I know it’s there.

laura6032 · 04/11/2017 19:54

I made an apple pie once with salt instead of sugar, have never been allowed to forget x

Housemum · 04/11/2017 20:04

My mum made macaroni cheese not realising you have to cook the macaroni first.
I have pulled curtain strings out
I cross stitched my binca canvas mat to my woolly dress at junior school

manicmij · 04/11/2017 20:16

Not on cross stitch but had material to make a Roman blind. Really liked it. Also had material that I wasn't quite so keen on for another room. Cut the loved material to fit the smaller window. Just wasted. So you are not alone. I have however survived to tell the tale.

Gingernaut · 04/11/2017 20:18

I put together an IKEA chest of drawers downstairs.

Brought the carcass and the 5 drawers up the stairs, painfully, one by one.

Installed it in the bedroom where it looked a treat.

Until I noticed that the trim used for the front edges of the carcass and the sides of the drawers was different to the fronts of the drawers and the top and sides of the carcass.

I arranged for IKEA to refund me and collect it but that meant bringing it all downstairs again.

Slowly, painfully and trying not to damage the surfaces in order to get the ful refund.

I had each piece in my hands downstairs. I had the whole thing assembled downstairs. Why did I not notice until I had shifted almost twice my own bodyweight in veneered chipboard?? Why? Confused Shock

Tazmum01 · 04/11/2017 20:19

I bought my parents a record player last Christmas as they've got loads of old LPs hanging out in the spare bedroom. My mum was excited to hear her favorite song on a Queen album and couldn't understand why it didn't play, despite her playing it from start to finish a few times. Silly bugger forgot you have to turn them over to hear the whole thing. Too used to cds lol

Beachmummy23 · 04/11/2017 20:21

One year I decided to handmade all my Christmas gifts. Bloody stupid idea. I was up til 1am in Christmas Eve finishing my SIL beautiful gloves. When I tied the thread and snipped it at the end I somehow snipped the glove and put a massive hole in it.

morningconstitutional2017 · 04/11/2017 20:24

Many of us have spent a wonderful time making something and then gasped in horror at some monumental cock-up we didn't notice earlier.

IIWY I'd go and make a nice cup of tea Brew or something stronger. Wine Then try and think clearly. The idea of getting more Aida (or cutting what you've got to fit) and overlapping it for a few rows sounds pretty good to me. It probably won't show except to you.

I'm assuming you've already shouted 'bollocks' out loud and thrown the damn thing on the floor. Resist the temptation to scrunch it up into a ball and jump up and down on it - it really doesn't help.