If you’ve ever been caught sewing while your bobbin’s running on empty, you’ll know exactly how annoying it is. All that hard work and nothing to show for it. It’s one of the most common mistakes, too, and a slip-up that the Good Fabric team has made about a million times.

Why are sleeves so tricky to get the right way up? We think they must flip themselves over when no one’s looking. Keep your unpicker close by to turn back time on back-to-front sleeves and right your wrongs before it’s too late.

Whether your fabric’s super fragile or you’ve forgotten to turn down the temperature of your iron, it’s easy to scorch your materials. Once that burn marks in, it’s not coming out, either. When will we learn to just turn the temperature down a notch?

Honey, I shrunk my fabric! If only you could turn back time and do that all-important pre-wash, right? But when you’ve got a gorgeous roll of fabric and a pattern that you’re dying to try, it’s all too easy to run ahead without washing first.

You’ve just got your dream fabric and it’s everything you imagined it would be. Your scissors are in your hand and… you can’t cut it! This is new fabric anxiety and all of us have been there. Our advice would be to take a deep breath, calm your shaking hands, and go for it.

Sewists are asked to hem trousers left, right, and centre. If you’ve been cornered at a party to shorten your pal’s new pair of trousers, tick this one off your list. This also counts for re-sewing buttons, adjusting straps, and fixing loose stitching.

Just shove the sofa back a little and move the table into the next room - it’ll be fine! If you’ve started rearranging your entire home just to make space for your sewing projects, you know that you’ve become a certified sewist.

Whether it’s a centimetre, an inch, or a whole metre, it’s always annoying when you don’t have enough fabric for your pattern pieces. No matter how much you rearrange, it just won’t fit. *Sigh*. The only upside of this is it gives you a good excuse to order more fabric.

Oh no, you’ve pinned and cut out your entire pattern, only to realise that the direction of the print on the fabric is upside down! It’s back to the drawing board with this one, folks, as there isn’t much you can do about an upside-down pattern.