Hammock DIY: Annoyances and Gripes

[scrope]

Sewing while frustrated.

I was working on a down filled top quilt and had just spent about 2-3 hours wranging down in my bathroom. I was hot and tired (and looked a bit like a plucked goose) but I got all the down in the baffles and everything was clipped and ready to go. I started to sew the edges shut and I really should have just walked away from the sewing machine but I was so close to having it finished that i thought I'd just power through. Nope, that was a bad idea.

I was sewing the seam and got part way done and noticed that I was sewing extra material from the bottom and it was all going to have to be seam ripped and re-done. I just stopped in mid-seam and shut off my machine with the quilt still under the needle and walked away. It's been in the machine for the last 2 weeks. Partly because I've had a cold but partly because I'm not going to touch that quilt until I'm calm and centered and ready to face the additional work with a positive attitude.

I've had similar experiences while doing woodworking and I know better. If you aren't in-the-moment and feeling good about what you are doing, you are just inviting disaster. It's better to just walk away until you are really ready to proceed instead of forcing it.

[jellyfish]

When you are cutting out out bridge hammock ends using a template - cut one with rotary knife - good - setup to cut second and cut it along with cutting into the first - doh!!!



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Ouch. That one stings.

[jellyfish]

Keep calm and grab your seam ripper.

Official motto of DIY.

[jellyfish]

Sewing while frustrated.

If there is a cardinal rule to sewing, it would be about this.

[Danimal9]

I'll be cleaning goose down in my basement for years to come. It get everywhere.

Work with your hands, use your brain, drink good beer.

[nocturne]

What is annoying you about your diy project(s).

Finishing the project and finding a better way to do it but you can't because you did your diy slightly different.

[P-Dub]

Then you just have to make another (better) one!

[jellyfish]

Finishing the project and finding a better way to do it but you can't because you did your diy slightly different.

Then you just have to make another (better) one!

I’m with P-Dub. There is always *the next project*.

[jellyfish]

When your sewing table is covered in your spouse's tools...

[Dynamystic]

When you know you have to move soon and all you can do is stare vacantly at your sewing studio realizing just how much stuff you've accumulated over the years and wondering where some of it even came from in the first place...

Where to start? Where to start?

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