Sewing Superstitions
If you are leery of Friday the 13th, always pick up a penny, avoid walking under a ladder, throw spilled salt over your shoulder or cross your fingers - you just might be a little bit superstitious.
Superstition is a term for any belief or practice that is considered irrational - a belief in fate, magic, or a fear of the unknown. Pinpointing the origin of a superstition is next to impossible. We’ve all heard them - but we don’t know where they came from. We just explain them away as folklore and continue to cross our fingers.
Sewing has it’s own unique set of superstitions. We wont know until we get to heaven if we really will have to pick out all our Sunday stitches with our nose. Who decided hearts were bad luck in a wedding quilt? And, there’s more:
Good Luck
- Always sew a pillow case on New Years Eve to hold all of your troubles.
- See a pin and pick it up, all the day you’ll have good luck.
- If you drop scissors on a Sunday expect a strange visitor.
- Stitching a spider web design into a quilt will bring good luck.
- Carry a thimble in your pocket for good luck.
- If you drop a needle or pin and it lands eye or head up, you’ll have good luck.
- Sewing in good weather is good luck.
Bad Luck
- Anything started on a Friday will never get finished.
- If your thread knots and tangles, someone is talking about you.
- If you borrow pins, never return them to avoid catastrophe.
- Dropping a needle or pin point up is bad luck.
- You will cut off your fortune if you use scissors on New Year’s Day.
- Sewing in bad weather is bad luck, and the bad weather will be sewn into the fabric
- Dropping scissors on the floor is bad luck, unless you step on them before picking them up
- Leaving a sewing machine open during a lightning storm is bad luck, and lightning will strike the house
- Never make a quilt with 13 blocks.
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