The winners will be posted on the 14th.
Tuesday June 4thSinta from Pink Pincushion http://pinkpincushion.blogspot.com/
Wednesday June 5th Jodi from Pleasant Home http://www.pleasant-home.com/
Thursday June 6th Judi from Green Fairy Quilts http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com/
Friday June 7thLissa of ModaLissa http://modalissa.blogspot.com/
Saturday June 8th Amanda of AmandaMurphyDesign http://amandamurphydesign.blogspot.com/
Sunday June 9thAnna of Thimbleanna http://thimbleanna.com/
Monday June 10th Amy Smart of Diary of a Quilter http://www.diaryofaquilter.com/
Tuesday June 11th Kristyne of Pretty by Hand http://prettybyhand.com/
Wednesday June 12th Sherri of A Quilting Life http://www.aquiltinglife.com
Quilting is my life, I had a dream once that I got called into the Principal’s office because my son called someone a fat quarter. I did get called in at a later date for him looking up a girl’s skirt on the playground.
When I worked and taught at a quilt store, sometimes my students would call my home asking quilting questions. My family was comfortable thinking they could answer. If they were asked, about how much yardage should they buy? The standard answer was, “I think 1/2 yard would be plenty.”
I once was blamed for our foundation issues.
Well after all my fabric stash was on that side of the house.
Do you let people use your good scissors to cut paper? What about using a rotary cutter to cut pizza? you know who you are… Quilting is my life.
If all your Christmas stocking are made from
quilts, then quilting could be your life.
Quilting is my life.
My family has yet to learn that my scissors don't get used to cut off tags or cut paper! I'd resort to the padlock on them but then I'd have to keep track of the keys as well as the scissors! Thanks for the giveaway.
When my daughter moved out I made her some Christmas decorations. Her boyfriend liked them too and said I suppose stars would be too difficult. Knowing that he also wanted a conifer swag above the fireplace, I made them a lovely decoration, with stars and the words Noel, which was hung one night whilst he was out. He loved it thankfully! Not sure if he would appreciate a quilt though.
My middle son used my rulers for his maths A-level course work! It must have worked because he got an A!!!
My daughter has used my stash material for Barbie clothes. I'm still waiting for her to catch the quilt bug. I kind of wish my grandmothers were still alive – I taught them to crochet when I was in high school. I would have loved to teach them to quilt – I know one especially would have loved it! Maybe in the next life?!
Actually, I don't think any of my supplies have been ill used by anyone but myself. There's just me and my husband and he never really comes all the way into my sewing room; just stands in the door smiling at all my mess!
When my son used my "good" scissors to cut a coathanger, I decided to lock my scissors away.
My guy has been caught using my rotary cutter and cutting mat to cut labels for his home-brewed beer.
My daughters used my fabric stash for a school project. When I visited their class on Open House, I got to see my fabric (well, former fabric) again!
My husband kept using my fabric scissors for paper. I now hide them from him.
My daughter was 9 years old when she asked for scrap fabrics and in her bedroom closet she handstitched a coaster for my Christmas present… it was the best gift ever!! I cherish her gift of love!!
my son likes emptying my fabric cupboard and using all the fabric for games, sometimes to make a cubbie, sometimes as a teddy blanket but most of all he likes getting it out and telling mummy what to make next.
No one has "mis-used" any of my supplies – they all have a healthy fear of what would happen if they did – ha ha! I did get to use my supplies to help my then 12-year-old son make a couple of items for a scrapbook for his English class. he made the flag of Norway and a handkerchief… and he had fun doing it!
That was fun to read! I just hopped over to see what you shared. Please don't include me in the giveaway:) I already have the book.
I will answer that myfamily can use my scissors for whatever they want. I am not big on rules. However, when I caught my sons using my iron to was their snowboards… I thought I should maybe start making a rule or two!
Kids are grown and out of the house. My stuff was not used to my knowledge when they were here…but one can never be too sure…scissors can always be found in the sewing room you know. I find I am collecting more and more unusual stuff that I know the grandkids are going to be wondering in there wanting something..like "Oma, why are you saving all your coffee bags, juice pouches and skittles bags?" Can I have some? ha. ONe way to get another generation going!
I came home one day and found my husband using my rotary cutter, cutting mat and ruler. He was cutting strips out of cardboard to make baskets. I had to get another cutter and mat. He is always doing something. It might be acorn cornbread (yuck), dandelion wine ( double yuck) or his latest trying to raise earthworms and feeding them our food scraps.
I've always been an assertive person, so no one has ever dared to get into my stash without permission. I've gladly given some family members, quilts, scraps, and all kind of goodies. But we all respect other people's property and never take without permission. As for a rotary cutter for pizza? Heck, there's a pizza cutter in the drawer, much safer to use. Would l♥ve to win this b♥♥k and some neat materials. Thanks for the opportunity!
Once while I was sewing a quilt top I discovered myself a few pieces short. I knew I had cut all the pieces according to the pattern so I searched high & low for the pieces only to discover then sewn on to my teenage daughter's jeans! She learned really quick to ASK MOM FIRST when it comes to my quilting stash.
They know better at this point..haha…I took over the kid's playroom when the youngest left for college. Now the room is mine!
My daughter using my sewing scissors to cut cardboard….UGH!
My daughter used my rotary cutter and mat to cut things for her scrapbook. Thanks for the chance to win!
My husband used my scissors, they were classed as paper scissors but still good, to cut a heavy tarp and the handle of the scissor broke so he wound fishing line around and around the handle and poured clear resin type glue to bind it all together and they were as good as new! this was 20 years ago and they still work fine
I don't have children, so only my husband can use my supplies. He really understands not to use my scissors, but he has used my flexible ruler for some carpentry projects. Great post!
A dear friend's 10 year old son called me up to ask if I could help him make a quilt – at my house with all my supplies – for soon to be born grandson. I like that kind of sharing. Thanks for this opportunity. Wendy
Does finding a needle on the carpet with your bare foot count?
My rotary cutter has been used to cut paper, styrofoam, foam-core, cardboard, and poster-board. Fortunately, we used one with an old blade and all worked out okay. Everyone was happy. Thank you for this great giveaway.
Have a super great sewing and stitching day!
My husband and a friend were putting in new baseboard heating covers and he said 'if we just had something that could raise this up ever so slightly and hold it while I screw it in'…enter my 6×24" ruler. They were amazed that it was the perfect tool!
Like several others who commented, my sewing scissors have been used to cut paper, or maybe various other things unknown to me. The last time my scissors had a chink in them, I asked each member, and they ALL denied using the scissors. I'm happy to share anything else I own, but my sewing scissors are sacred 😉
When my kids were little my DS (then 5) used my sewing scissors to trim his sister's bangs (then 2) because I was in the shower and they bothered her. He said, 'well I used your good scissors!' when I told him he shouldn't be cutting his sisters hair. LOL Thanks for the chance! I would love to win a copy of Sherri's book.
My daughter thought she'd help me cut up fabric on the counter with my rotary cutter and no mat! Thanks for the chance to win Sherri's book.
my youngest son used my "sewing" scissors to cut some sort of metal wire. That was not a good day. He was maybe in 2nd grade.
I am always having to chase my husband out of my quilting room. I have bought so many scissors and never have any. Now he is very sick and I went out to the garage to get something and low and behold he had about 20 pair of Friskars scissors in one cabinet along with some other supplies that I was missing. I guess I was sharing.
I hide some very fine scissors that I bought in Germany many years ago. I don't let anyone near them. They can use the everyday scissors instead.
The book looks great. Thanks for a chance to win…
Great post Lissa! I'm pretty protective when it comes to my quilting supplies so no one in my family has had an opportunity to 'borrow' anything. Of course I have only been quilting for a few years so there is always a possibility it could happen.
I have been quilting for 25 + years and I don't have a problem with my family members using my quilting supplies. Just the opposite. My fishermen have given me many "tools" that I find very useful in my quilting life (my favorite is a hook and leaders tender…I thread my needles all stored and ready to go).
My only problem with the family is the same as many others. Scissors. They always know where to find a pair. My husband has often been found using my embroidery scissors to cut fishing line. Seeing he pays for my fabric I just smile and walk away.
I loved reading your post. My sewing room is OFF LIMITS to everyone. The only thing my husband might go in there for is a pin and he always asks first. Thanks for the giveaway. I would love to win Sherri's book.
My kids were all grown when I started quilting, so I haven't had that problem. My granddaughter who I taught to sew has used the Ginghers for paper a time or two, but knows better now. 😉
My children love to use my sewing scissors to cut paper with. They use to disappear into their rooms with them. Kind of miss those days now that the kids are leaving the nest.
Everyone in my house has been taught about fabric-only scissors, so there are no more problems!
My rulers are always disappearing as are my good scissors and pins. Thanks for sharing.
When we were first married and in our new home…my husband used my sewing scissors to wall paper the kitchen. That pretty much ruined them. He did buy me a really nice pair of scissors to replace them. Much better than what I had to begin with. Definitely a win for me!
My husband was guilty of using my good scissors for cutting paper but knows better now. I found some half way decent every day scissors at a dollar store and purchased several to put in key areas of the house so he can find a pair when he needs them and leave mine alone. Worked like a charm!
A friend of my daughter's once used my applique scissors to cut wire! Needless to say, I was not happy! Had to forgive her, though, I think they were 8. My other daughter has used my scraps, always asking first if it's okay, to make dog toys. Thanks for the opportunity to win Sherri's book; it looks great!
When my daughter was in college, the local Society for the Preservation of Creative Anachronisms held a Renaissance Fair on her campus. While she was home on spring break, she helped herself to my good scissors, needles, and thread. She neglected to mention it to me. She bought muslin at a shop near her school and made herself a tunic to wear. Unfortunately, I was without my favorite scissors until she returned home at the end of the semester.
Have shared my quilting tools with all three of my daughters. If you teach them correctly, they learn to use them the right way.
Well…….one of my boys went through my fabric stash and helped himself to a red check to line the door of his truck. When I asked him what he was thinking, he said 'its the only one that matched!'
My husband thought he could use my rotary cutter to cut his mat board for a painting. He found out very quickly what a crime that was.
My daughter loves ot go into my sewing room. She loves to make stuff anbd create. I have given he ra table ane easle and lots of paints and drawing supplies too. So when she get s the mood she goes ina dn surrounds herself with all my sewing things and uses them. And she has been painting and drawing too. She is a natural. And is full of crativity. My sister comes over now too. We recently moved from several hours away to the same town my sisters live in. Everyone wats to hang out in my sewign room > I have taught my sister to sew and she comes and feels my fabric often. I have to watch ehr like a hawk around my lil stash… I see her eyes takeing it all in and I know she is now hooked for life on creating with fabric and now my other sister has decided to come stroke the fabric too and ask what I am doing and touch and see each new project..Slowly reeling her in to learn to sew she just doesn't know it yet. And I have already taught one of my neice's to sew for her daughter and given her an old machine I acquired. What a great quilting and sewing life it is indeed.
My kids are in college now, but for many years I would hide my good scissors! Once when my daughter was about 10, I came home from work to discover that she had pulled out some pink fabric she liked, cut out 2 little pieces, sewed them together–on my sewing machine! and stuffed it to make a doll pillow!
No stories about family using my quilting supplies, but I've tried several times to teach my DH to sew, telling him I would get many more quilts done if he helped! At that point, he quickly exits my sewing room. He'd much rather be outdoors running. Enjoyed your family stories. Thanks for the chance to win!