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Confounded machines.
2007 @ 3:38 pm
Confounded machines. I always fall back to the sticks. I’ll spend an entire day (usually around all the fabric at Brooklyn Gen) desperate to sew, come home and settle in only to look at the machine, which is set up all the time, mind you, and decide I’m too tired. At, like, 8:30. Ah, I’ve been disappointed in myself many a night when I kick back with the sticks rather than setting out to sew. Silly, I know. I finally managed to sit down at the machine two nights ago only to be locked in a three day obsessive merry-go-round with my bobbin hold, case and actual bobbin. And maybe the needle, I don’t know that much about the thing. After losing six hours of precious time (I could have been re-reading HP6) Ahm takin’ her in. I can straight stitch, but nothing else.
Zig Zag only works on one side (red thread):
I blame a renegade pin.
Other notable incidents in the last 72 hrs:
Broken Needle:
Oiling.
Even Father-in-Law reinforcements. He used to own a factory full of sewing machines.
On to more helpful information–less bitching, more fixing!
Comments
My zig-zag does that too!! But only with certain types of threads - otherwise it’s good to me, I find the whole tension stuff confusing - is it me, or the machine? Good luck getting it fixed, I’d be interested to know what the cause is.
My machine has had tension issues since day one. I have to play around with the settings every single time. Your little swatch looks like something I do every time I use my machine… I just assumed that that’s the way things were, but now you have me convinced that I should get it checked out!
And then we won’t be too tired to sew, right?