Originally Posted by ginnie6

messes up! Grrr! I've been fighting a yucky head cold for two days now. Today I want to finish a quilt and none of my machines will work! They worked earlier this week! My Kenmore needs to go to the shop but no money....my white (my old workhorse) is suddenly not working either. I can pick up thread by turning the wheel but when I try to sew the top thread just breaks. I've rethreaded, cleaned, oiled....and anything else I could think of. So I remember the antique white rotary I got this summer.....hmmm. Nope it won't pick up thread either. So it must be me! So here I sit wanting to sew and can't. If I felt better I'd break that credit card out of the safe and go use it to buy a new machine! I'm scared to try the treadle....it was my grandmother's and I hate to mess it up too.

Originally Posted by Quilter7x

Sounds like a nap might be in order. Walking away for a while does wonders sometimes and since you're sick, you're not quite yourself anyway. Wishing you luck!

Originally Posted by koko

Maybe a new needle and change of thread would fix the problems??

Originally Posted by lillybeck

Here are some pics of a quilt I did for a GD that lived with me from the age of 12 to 18 and I wanted it to be ready when she and her husband and baby visited on the 4th of July weekend. Well 1st the whack and stack went wackie and I had to hand cut everything then every needle I tried broke, then while meandering the thread kept breaking and on top of that I had to rip 6 times 2 of those being all of the center part. The happy part of these is that she was thrilled with it. I walked away from that thing many many times, One time I even threw it in the trash, LOL