Originally Posted by
ThayerRags
Sometimes I can drive myself crazy. Like yesterday afternoon, for example.
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
Ugh me too! I spent yesterday moving from machine to machine trying to find one that would stitch through 6 layers of fleece. I got the bright idea the Pfaff 130 would do the job even though I have not yet tested it or adjusted the tension because it's not in the best case for accessing the bobbin area. Not only was it not going to do the job, it refused to even do a zig zag stitch. It WAS zig zagging but wasn't producing the stitch. I couldn't even tell if I has it threaded correctly and was getting very frustrated. I was a sweaty mess trying to get it working, then switched to the White and then to the Kenmore...I finally decided the project would be fine with 3 layers of fleece (and it really was).
I think I am getting the Halloween crazies.