Murphy's Sewing Laws

• Fusible interfacings always fuse to the iron.
• The serge only eats the customer's garment.
• You will find five buttons in your box if you need six.
• The seam you meant to rip out is invariably the other one.
• When you are in a hurry, the needle eye is always too small.
• The fabric you forgot to pre-shrink will always shrink the most.
• The pattern you wanted to make again will have one key piece missing.
• If you drop something out of your sewing basket, it will be your box of pins, with the cover off.
• Whenever the construction process is going well, the bobbin thread runs out.
• The magnitude of the goof is in direct proportion to the cost of the fabric.
• While walking barefoot, your lost needle will be found by your son, husband, or brother-in-law.
• Facings tend to be sewn to the wrong side.
• Corollary: Opposite sides attract.
• Collar points don't match, and you've trimmed all the seams.
• The iron never scorches the garment until its final pressing.
• The steam iron only burps rusty water on light silk fabric.
• The sewing machine light usually burns out on Sunday.
• Pinking shears get dull just by looking at them.
• Gathering threads always breaks in the middle.
• The scissors cut easiest past the buttonhole.
• Matching edges don't. Sent by Barb.
• You will spill your pin box once per garment. Sent by Barb, on behalf of his sister.
• As ye sew, so shall ye rip. Sent by EJ Mott, passed to her by her grandmother.