Good morning everyone! Friday has come again and we’re busy as ever here at Sew News HQ. It’s amazing how much we learn every day about cutting edge sewing techniques. Have you checked out our online exclusive for the current issue?
Love Light details the ins and outs of using eTextiles and adding lights to a fun heart bedecked pillow. Why not give it a whirl? A little something glowing might delight someone special in your life.
Speaking of delights, enter to win a fabulous and mysterious grab bag today! The contents were gathered from the Sew News stash and will surely delight you. Enter by answering the following question in the comments section below: 
What is your sewing pet peeve?
For me, it’s all the ironing! Stopping to iron often takes the wind out of my sails on a project. Yet, it’s so very necessary.
From all the responses we’ll randomly choose one as our winner and announce the winner on Monday. Thanks for reading and good luck!
I hate it when you you have a fabric without an obvious right side and notice after the project is almost finished it has a piece with the wrong side out.
My pet peeve is not having enough room to leave my projects out until finished. I have a huge table at my disposal, it also serves for dinner so I have to clean up even if I’m not finished.
My biggest pet peeve is when someone uses my sissors without asking.
arm holes and neck holes are the bane of my sewing existence. I would hire someone just to do them if I could.
My sewing room and cutting table is too small, and it gets cluttered in a hurry during a project.
Having to prepare meals and stop to eat gets in the way of my momentum. I’ve discovered that weekends are for prepared meals…roasted chicken works beautifully.
My pet peeve in sewing is not having the skills YET to do all I want to do.
My pet peeve is never having enough time and not being able to find the fabrics and notions I want. There are no shops closer than 2 hours away. The internet does not let me feel the fabric for its hand and the colors are never a perfect match!
I have to cover my cutting table, machine, every thing so the cat does not get
into it and mess it up. I stopped once for a few mins. and the cat was in the middle ,
of my project and some on the floar.
Sewing irritation? misplacing something in the midst of look for something else while it’s all there where I left it while answering the phone. DISTRACTION
My pet peeve is when the fabric is unevenly cut at the fabric store and one ends up with an amount less than paid for when straightened.
My sewing pet peeved is not having enough ‘alone’ time so I can
sew! Having to stop sewing and cook/look at/ talk to- and do. MOM. things
really distracts me so I usually put off sewing until everyone either goes to bed or
goes to work and school!
I agree with most of the posts. Having to stop to cook has to be the most irritating.
I hate it when my cats decide to help with the cutting as I use a rotary cutter and I’m always afraid I will give one of them a good cut. Not only that but they manage to distort the fabric when they land on it
My biggest pet peeve is not having enough fabric – in my stash, in the store, or for a pattern. I am always looking for my stash to increase. I have to travel 30 for decent fabric or drive 2 hours one way to a Joann’s. I by fabric I like and if I don’t have enough for the pattern I have to color piece it together.