Murphy's Laws of Sewing

[Adriana Rose]

Yea I had it happen with like 3 differnt peices! I dont get to get fabric that often so I always get enough to cover the projects that I have in my head.

[TiaLD77]

You have the perfect Idea for Garb! & when you dig in your stash, you realize nothing you already have will do!

[ADraeger]

If it's expensive, and it's silk, it will slip and muck up everything.   My mother has had this misfortune many a time. silk+sewing machines = her nightmare

[DonaCatalina]

As yee sew, so shall ye rip

so you have to go back and try to refinish that button hole that got waaaay too big.

[Taffy Saltwater]

If the fabric has a directional pattern, you will cut the biggest part of your garment upside down.

The fabric will go on sale next week.

Your last needle will break w/one seam left to go - at midnight.

[Lady Rosalind]

If the fabric has a directional pattern, you will cut the biggest part of your garment upside down.

The fabric will go on sale next week.

Your last needle will break w/one seam left to go - at midnight.

Groan...

I hear you on all of those, especially the last...

You will break, not ONE, but FOUR needles while sewing piping, as when the bobbin runs out, the needle jerks just a tad to the right, and since you are using a piping foot that did NOT come with your machine (as the one that did doesn't make tight enough piping), the needle rams into the piping foot before you can stop. Yes, a whole package of needles for 20 yards of piping (and I used all by about a foot of it!).

[DonaCatalina]

You will run out of silver seed beads halfway through the sleeve and when you try to buy some more, the color number is the same but the color is obviously different when seen up close.

[RumbaRue]

Finding out you are three buttons short and you can't find any more.

Using old grandma's spools of threads and finding they break really easy due to their age.

Not being able to match up your material with the right thread color.

Finding out you're short on material and when you go to buy more, it's all gone.

Not having any more bobbins for thread.

When you make the first few stitches on your machine and it comes out all in a gloppy mess of thread on the underside.

[Hoowil]

If you put a project off till the last moment, the cord to the sewing machine will be missing.

[Adriana Rose]

You lay the baby down for a nap and just as you get started the little stinker wakes up and wants to help!

[DonaCatalina]

Anything you think will be a simple fix will be long and hard because:
A) The loops on the gimp trim will catch in the foot,
B) Bind up the thread
C) Break the machine needle off inside the machine
D) You have to practically cut away the nest of thread around the needle
E) Your husband will have carried off your thinnest needle nose tweezers
F) And you left your pickup magnet at work.

[Artemisia]

When you pull out the linen for your current project you realize what you have on hand is not exactly the color you want. Additionally, there is no time to hunt down and purchase the perfect color.

(Orange florentine is now a red-orange florentine) 

[Manwariel]

- The one time you burn the fabric with the iron, the garment is for someone else.

- Pattern pieces will always be folded in the most complicated way possible (except for some McCall's patterns, which are simply stuffed into the envelope.

- The patterns never fit back in the envelope after they've been cut out.

- The one time you prick yourself with a pin hard enough to draw blood, then bleed on the fabric, the garment is for someone else.

[tigerlilly]

You will come up one bone short, necessitating another trip to the hardware store.

One particular commercial pattern company will always have way too much ease (yes, I'm looking at you, Simplicity) and somehow you will always forget this.

You will find a nice pattern but no fabric, or fantastic fabric but no idea what to make from it (can you say "stash"?).  I'm going to start carrying my pattern box around in my car.

You can buy fabric and plan projects much faster than you can actually complete them.  The uncompleted projects and stashed fabric will fill your sewing room until you have to sew elsewhere.

[dragongirl]

In a theraflu fog you accidentally hem the top of your garment and run the drawstring through the bottom.

And though it's not sewing, in the same theraflu fog you crochet your new sash belt about 4 feet too long and you cannot get that exact dye lot again to correct your mistake.

If you are making something for a special occasion or for someone else you spill(insert fizzy beverage of choice here) on the fabric, causing a discoloration.