This afternoon during the boys’ nap time I sat myself down with my new carving set and a pack of rubbers to carve my first ever stamps following Two Cheese Please’s stamp tutorial… a heart, it came out so so, a mushroom, pretty good if I do say so myself, so I was feeling bold enough to try and do my name… and that’s when it all went downhill!
I’ve had my fair share of crafting brainfarts, switching between metric and imperial and wondering why my quilt came out wrong, forgetting about polymer clay and pulling it out of the oven an hour later to find my beautiful beads are now brown blobs, and don’t even get me started on the amount of frogging I’ve had to do on various crochet projects!
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I did the same exact thing trying to make a handcarved stamp with my shop logo on it. How hard can it be? I thought. I carefully inked the letters onto the block, every so carefully carved each tiny curve and then went to stamp it. Completely backwards.
Donna - I’m so glad it’s not just me who had this brain spasm!
Oh no! But on the plus side, that is a VERY cute mushroom!
My latest brainfart was just recently when I was making binding for my quilt.. I sewed all the strips together to form one giant long strip but I didn’t know there was a certain way to do it, so they alternated right side showing, wrong side showing, right side showing, etc!
I didn’t notice until I’d started to sew the binding on so I had to unpick and start all over again!
~Holly
Two Cheese Please
Your heart and mushroom are really cute! And I don’t even attempt carving word stamps.. I know it wouldn’t even look right
My latest mishap was cutting out two left legs for pants I was making for my 3 year old. Lovely, especially since I didn’t have enough fabric to make the right leg. Oh well, you learn from mistakes, right?
where do i begin…i have these at least once a week and it is definitely not restricted to craft! I have been giggling about your use of the word ‘brainfart’ - nothing like a fart joke to get you going…tee, he! I can see that catching on in this house lol!
Cheers,
Lisa
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I think my biggest (read: most expensive!) mishap was the time I had virtually finished sewing a velvet skirt and left a big iron mark, centre back, while pressing a seam open!
lol the same thing happened to me with a lino cut! Alas I didn’t realize until I’d been carve for good on an hour.
hmmm seems like an easy mistake to make. you could try stamping on the wrong side of velum, would be limited usage, but at least some good would come from it