Friday 13 October 2006

Good news and bad news

On the good news side, hubby has just phoned from Japan to say that he'd made it OK. Connections had gone smoothly and he'd been upgraded to First Class so the horrible long flight was way more comfortable than he'd expected. Obviously my advice to dress nicely and not look like he'd just staggered, stoned, off a beach in Jamaica paid off! It's sad he's not going to get much of a chance to have a look round while he's there. The inside of one hotel is much like any other whatever country you're in.

On the bad news side, there's something wrong with my sewing machine. The Brother one, not the new Pfaff. I had half an hour to spare and so I was sewing a couple of Mended Heart blocks while I had a cup of tea. The satin stitch just didn't seem to be feeding through properly and I was getting the stitches piling up on top instead of laying next to each other. I thought maybe the walking foot was faulty so switched to the wide one but that did exactly the same thing, then I tried with an ordinary foot and it was still doing it. I stripped the machine down but there wasn't much in the way of fluff and lint and everything looks like it's working fine. I suppose I'm going to have to take it in to be fixed. MIL is away for a week so I might 'borrow' hers while she's away.

The block I was trying to sew is a complete mess but here's a couple that I did earlier. :)

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4 comments:

  1. anne bebbington15 October 2006 at 09:46

    Clever and effective block design - like it, don't you just hate machines wen they go wrong - and of course I just realised your new machine is a straight-stitch only - tried one at Weston Quilters show, impressed, wish I had a spare few hundred quid I could squirrel away for it :o)

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  2. Joyce15 October 2006 at 14:13

    Did you check for lint or threads in the tension disks? I had that problem once and there was a thread in there that held them apart so there was not enough tension. I love your quilts and truly envy your Pfaff quilter.

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  3. Dormouse15 October 2006 at 16:51

    Anne, they were my 'learn to free-motion quilt' pieces. The squares are layered with batting and the hearts just satin stitched on and then quilted. When you've got two you just chop them in half and close zig zag them back together. They're only 8 inch squares so they're really easy to manouvre. I've got a box full, one day I'll do something with them.

    Joyce, I went back and had another check and sadly there's no sign of anything. Thanks for the tip though, I'll remember that.

    The Pfaff is wonderful, I love it to bits and don't think I could use the Gracie Frame with a smaller machine... but it WAS expensive. No birthday or Xmas presents for me for a while.

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  4. Penny15 October 2006 at 19:23

    I like the one on the bottom left, it almost looks like the mouse is peeking out.

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