Murphy's Laws of Sewing

[LadyStitch]

The trim you bought at Joann's shop A, with style #xyz,  because shop Joann's shop B was X yards short will not be a perfect color match.

If you want to special order the trim it would take 3 weeks and the garment has to be ready in 2.

[Kate XXXXXX]

The customer projects are stacking in a holding pattern, and the machine you want to use for the buttonholes is making ominous clicking noises, so needs to be serviced!  Gah!

[Dance_Dance]

The first time I ever tried making a male's shirt was for my future brother-in-law.  Thought I had messured out the fabric and had it all matched up to the patern like they were twins.  When it comes time to make the sleeves, guess who messured wrong!  Yay!  I had to spend two days and fourty dollars in gas running around from fabric store to fabric store because no one seemed to have the precise white cotton fabric I needed.  >_<;

[Manwariel]

You have a new sewing machine and order parts that didn't come with it, and everything but the power cord comes in the same box, so you can't start using it yet.

[DonaCatalina]

You have the button hole foot set at a certain length, but for some
unknown reason every third one comes out too long.

[Taffy Saltwater]

You have the button hole foot set at a certain length, but for some
unknown reason every third one comes out too long.

Or it'll whip up five beautiful button holes in a row & completely kerfluey the sixth.

[Lady Rosalind]

You have the button hole foot set at a certain length, but for some
unknown reason every third one comes out too long.

Or it'll whip up five beautiful button holes in a row & completely kerfluey the sixth.

LOL, I gave up doing button holes on my machine, and learned to sew them by hand.

[Hoowil]

You have the button hole foot set at a certain length, but for some
unknown reason every third one comes out too long.

Or it'll whip up five beautiful button holes in a row & completely kerfluey the sixth.

Or find the lining shifted on every other hole, making it bunch and hang weird.

[GirlChris]

Having struggled with godets for years, you will finally sew a perfect one on your first try- only to try the garment on and find you sewed it inside out

[Manwariel]

The bodice you make several days before the faire is way too big (or way too small).

[I'm sooooo disappointed  ]

[Genievea Brookstone]

The one time you forgot you used pins with plastic heads you will be instantly reminded when you smell plastic buring as you press your seam.

[Adriana Rose]

Or you finally pull a project out of the box that it was thinking about what it did wrong to finish it, you have some fabbo trim that has been hanging around forever that you deside to use on it and then you realise that you are like a yard short of the trim!

[tigrlily64]

The bodice pattern you just bought doesn't have your size on the pattern-even though that size is on the pattern envelope.

[DragonWing]

    your making a white shirt/blouse and finish it only to find out that a wayward red thread is caught between the fabric and the fusible interfacing.

[Syrilla]

Months ago, and a few states away, you save up and buy expensive fabric, half off, for a project.  And find that you are a foot short!  *hitting head on desk, over and over again*  Nooooooo!!!!!   Oh, plus, it has to be worn in 4 days.