Hilarious Sewing Memes that only Real Seamstresses will get.

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The Funniest Sewing Memes That Only Sewists Will Understand.

1. How scary and exciting is it to play and win “chicken bobbin” 

We have all been there. This Sewing Meme is something we all can understand.

Just a few stitches left to finish your sewing projects, and your bobbin has only a few inches left of thread. 

Yes, I guess we could stop and change to a full bobbin. 

But where is the fun in that?

2. And of course… Losing at chicken bobbin. 

Yes, that circle skirt hem you’ve been sewing for the last 15 minutes actually hasn’t been sewn at all! 

Not precisely chicken bobbin, because we can challenge what we can see. 

But it is equally infuriating.

3. When Your Hubby Asks, ‘Why Do You Need to Go Fabric Shopping Again?’

I swear I thought I had the fabric I needed in the middle of that 100-yard pile of fabrics…

As it turns out… I do not.

So… Yes, I need to go back!

4. The fact that you can make a dress out of nothing, and then not find the seam ripper you just had…

I swear to you. It still surprises me that I can create complete outfits out of thin air and fabric.

Then I will spend 3 hours trying to find the seam ripper I just had in my hand two seconds ago.

It’s like finding a needle in a haystack! (quite literally).

5. That was nOT what I meant!

How dare he!?

I mean, I know what I said. But that’s not what I meant!

If you see me plugged to my sewing machine with a glass of wine nearby.

You leave me alone!

6. If you see me doing housework… My machine is probably broken.

Ha, ha! I am kidding, of course.

Adults have to adult…

But as I clean, you can bet that I will be thinking about my next sewing project!

7. The fact that you can find threads everywhere, and I mean everywhere.

No, they are not only spread all over your sewing room’s floor and your machines. 

The kitchen, the shower, and my poor dog are only a few places where I find my loose threads. 

One time, I swear I went to the bathroom and there was a long string INSIDE my panties!! 

I mean, what the “h”?

8. When you or someone in your family gets stabbed by one of your lost pins, and you are just like… Oh, there it was.

“It is more difficult than looking for a needle in a haystack. “

That phrase was invented for a reason! 

Can you imagine the time we would spend on trying to find every pin we drop on the floor? 

I have dark wooden floors, so pins and needles are practically invisible once they drop. 

I mean, I’ve tried, but I‘ve come to the point where if my magnetic pin holder doesn’t pick it up when I scan the area, I just quit. 

Also, the whole world is my PIN holder when I don’t have it near me. 

Funny thing when they appear on my bed, though.

9. There are some days when everything seems to be against us!

You know what I mean, right? Sad sewing meme, but truthful.

Broken needles, wrong tension, sewing the right side with the wrong side, unstitching, and more unstitching…

I know you know. As I say in my post, the most common 12 mistakes in sewing, not taking breaks, make everything worse.

So, take a step back from that machine, pour yourself some wine, and try again tomorrow.

10. Buying fabric and actually sewing it are two different hobbies.

We can stop if we want to. But we don’t. 

The unspoken (yet very spoken) reality of our hobbies. 

We all have that urge when we have to have that fabric. 

Either because it is on sale, or simply because it is too beautiful to leave alone. 

Sometimes, it is so beautiful that we actually never get ourselves to cut it.

11. We actually expect the cookie tin can to have sewing supplies.

Am I the only one? 

The only thing I can think of Christmas is when they give me a can of cookies, “Cool, another sewing supplies storage.” 

Here is an idea to drop to your loved ones. 

On Christmas, Birthdays, or whatever, buy one of those tins. 

Please take out the cookies and fill them with cool sewing gadgets instead! 

Wouldn’t that be a pleasant surprise to get??

12. Doing the math of how much money you have spent on materials… No thanks!

It is called plausible deniability, babe… Look it up.

I think I have spent more on sewing supplies and materials than on other essentials of life.

And somehow, I regret nothing.

13. Pockets.

We have lived a lifetime of pocketless clothing since the beginning of time. 

Who in the name of Dior thought of that? 

And don’t even get me started on the industry. 

Fake Jean pockets?? Common! 

That’s why, when we sew, we find a pattern with pockets for your phone and some secret snacks… 

That, my friends, is what we call happiness.

14. The hard truth about sewing is that you only get to sew 10% of the time.

Sewing involves so much more than only sewing.

You have to spend time with pattern-making books, reading patterns, cutting fabric, and seam ripping.

Oh God! Seam Ripping is the worst!

By the time you actually sit down and start sewing, you’ve lost half your day!

15. The satisfaction of matching side lines seems.

Oh, the pleasure! 

Every single person who has ever tried matching lines in seams can get this. 

It is a long and patient process, for sure. 

But it is oh so worthy when you get to see this.

16. Your husband doesn’t believe that you’re just going into the craft store for a quick trip anymore. And neither do you.

You don’t believe it either, even though you promised this time you were only buying what you went in for. 

MEH! Live and let live. 

That’s what happens when you put a craft lover inside craft land. 

It’s like a kid in a candy store.

I genuinely love Mrs. Bobbins!! She makes the best sewing memes. She gets us.

17. This benefit is only for close friends and family.

I can’t tell you how tired I am that as soon as people learn that I sew, their first thought is to give me their hems to fix.

And I am not saying that I wouldn’t do it sporadically for my friends.

But if you are a stranger, there’s no way I’m hemming your pants “as a favor”.

18. When you see something you love at the mall but don’t buy it because -You can make that.

There are two sides to this one. Am I right? 

On one, why shouldn’t you pass on buying that expensive garment that you know is the perfect Sewing pattern for?

And on the other side is me. 

Always saying, “I can make that, and cheaper!”. So I don’t buy the dress, and then I don’t make it either… 

I know, shame on me! Please tell me I am not alone in this.

19. That moment when you realize you should have basted that before sewing it.

Basting is one of the most underrated skills in sewing. 

You can’t imagine how much unstitching and bad crooked seams you could avoid by just learning how to baste by hand or machine?

The answer is A LOT. 

Seriously, take it from a former non-baster. 

Once you get the hang of it, everything will look better.

20. A full bobbin ready to sew when you need it. 

Full bobbins mean happiness too. 

There is nothing worse than an empty bobbin when you are in the middle of sewing your hem. 

Now you have to stop and refill. 

Anybody got time for that! 

21. The false promise you made to start the Christmas gifts early this year. Every year. 

I mean it. 

Every. Single. Year. 

I’m not sure about you, but I consider myself a fairly organized person. 

Yet every year I procrastinate on my sewing gifts until I have no other choice to stress sew them all. 

And as close as the day is the shorter my list of friends gets.

22. How no one else gets why they shouldn’t touch our fabric scissors!?

The first time my boyfriend tried to cut paper with my fabric scissors, he got very confused. 

So I calmly explained that if he ever touched my fabric scissors again, he wouldn’t live to tell the story. 

Now, every time he needs to cut something, he double-checks with me which one he can’t touch. 

Message received.

23. Sewing + wine. 

Girl. 

Do I need to say more? 

There is nothing more relaxing (and possibly dangerous) than a good glass of wine on a Friday night with that project you have been working on.

Add a scented candle, and you have the perfect date with yourself.

17. The fact that we have more fabric and patterns that we can sew and we keep going for more! 

Be honest with me. And let’s leave aside our fabric hoarder problem. (I mean our fabric collection hobby) 

How many patterns have you bought until this day and actually sewn? 

Don’t worry, I won’t actually make you tell me. This one stays between you and me. 

A lady never discusses the size of their stash ;).

24. Do you have a party tomorrow? Maybe you should make a new outfit tonight. 

OK… I might be exaggerating a little. 

But don’t we all have this itch to make something new for that event at the very last minute? 

One time, I made an evening dress for a wedding 2 days before the event. 

I did not sleep at all, but it was totally worth it.

25. The “F-ing” horror, having to unstitch an overlock seam… 

Everybody knows there is a trick to an “easy” overlock unstitching. 

Yet it isn’t, isn’t it? 

For starters, you have not 2 but 4 interlocked threads, which will eventually become little pieces of threads all over your clothes. 

But this is a thing we can’t avoid. 

If you want the greatness of a Serger seam, you need to be willing to unstitch at some point.

26. A clean sewing room… HaHa Just Kidding. 

There is no such thing as a clean sewing room. 

I mean I grant it, that could exist but only in a short period of time, you are not sewing in there. 

Even if you are the most organized person with the most organized sewing room in the world, I bet you have at least one “shame drawer” somewhere where you throw all the miscellaneous. 

Mine is my closet. Lol.

27. You get to say, “Thank you, I made it.”

It is like a superpower isn’t it? 

You get a flat piece of fabric and some thread, and then you transform it into anything you want! 

And the best thing is all the compliments right before you humbly (Humm proudly!) say the phrase. 

“Oh, this? Thank you, I just made it yesterday.”

28. Shortest horror story: Sewing Machine Away for service.

I mean… What are we supposed to do? 

Clean? The dishes? 

Actually finishing that book that we started last year? 

I have heard of people who actually have backup sewing machines. 

I’ve never understood this until my first Serger broke in the middle of a big order.

29. When you finally get the house alone to sew in peace.

No one screaming “mooooooooom” every 5 minutes. 

No husband constantly interrupts, asking where his shirts are. 

Nothing but your favorite seamstresses Netflix shows to sew with and your sewing machine.

30. We all love to party! As long as that means staying at home to sew. 

I am sad (but not really) to say that my party times are behind me. 

Now all I need is a new, exciting sewing pattern, pretty fabric, and my own sewing room where no one is allowed. 

Who needs to stay up drunk with a cheap beer until 3 am with loud music and strangers, when you can easily be the same amount of drunk with your nice glass of wine at 3 am, finishing that new pretty dress with pockets? 

I mean, it’s basically the same if you remove the strangers and the loud music. But you know what I mean.

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