furoshiki update
Dec. 8th, 2019 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Well, my serger just unthreaded itself so I’ve stopped, but. I haven’t taken any photos either, but I might later.
I did make a pieced all-pink one, a pieced navy and gray one, a solid blue one, and most of a solid gray one. (The serger quit halfway through hemming it.) I also discovered that my sewing machine is basically unusable– it somehow in the midst of sewing will thread the needle with a loop and then break off the thread, approximately every six inches of seam. Long enough that I can get a project done, short enough that I have to constantly rethread the whole time.
That machine was purchased for me by my sisters for my birthday one year and it was delightful of them but it spent most of its first year under warranty repair servicing, and now that the warranty’s done it’s severely underperforming. (If you zig-zag with it, none of the left stitches happen, for an example.) So I need to have it overhauled, again, but it’s more or less not worth doing; it was a $400 machine when it was new but it was never worth a penny. I should’ve listened; experts said Do Not buy a Singer, but I was sucked in by the programmable buttonholes.
I need to commission my mother-not-in-law to find me a solid 70s all-metal Kenmore at a garage sale this summer. She owns like seven of them, herself. I hate threading my own needles and I love drop-in bobbins and I am unreasonably enchanted by having 99 electronic programmable stitches, but I also want a machine that really actually sews, so.
(And yeah, I still have that embroidery machine, which I could set up to just sew with, but I can tell you from here that it’s of equivalent quality to the shitty Singer and will undoubtedly break immediately as well so I’d rather not.)
But the serger has been going strong since I got it fixed a couple of years ago, pending the lower looper getting rethreaded (it unthreaded itself just now and I don’t have it in me to figure out why just now), so. You can do a lot of sewing on a serger, just 0 topstitching, so any topstitching on these projects will be By Hand.
Well, my serger just unthreaded itself so I’ve stopped, but. I haven’t taken any photos either, but I might later.
I did make a pieced all-pink one, a pieced navy and gray one, a solid blue one, and most of a solid gray one. (The serger quit halfway through hemming it.) I also discovered that my sewing machine is basically unusable– it somehow in the midst of sewing will thread the needle with a loop and then break off the thread, approximately every six inches of seam. Long enough that I can get a project done, short enough that I have to constantly rethread the whole time.
That machine was purchased for me by my sisters for my birthday one year and it was delightful of them but it spent most of its first year under warranty repair servicing, and now that the warranty’s done it’s severely underperforming. (If you zig-zag with it, none of the left stitches happen, for an example.) So I need to have it overhauled, again, but it’s more or less not worth doing; it was a $400 machine when it was new but it was never worth a penny. I should’ve listened; experts said Do Not buy a Singer, but I was sucked in by the programmable buttonholes.
I need to commission my mother-not-in-law to find me a solid 70s all-metal Kenmore at a garage sale this summer. She owns like seven of them, herself. I hate threading my own needles and I love drop-in bobbins and I am unreasonably enchanted by having 99 electronic programmable stitches, but I also want a machine that really actually sews, so.
(And yeah, I still have that embroidery machine, which I could set up to just sew with, but I can tell you from here that it’s of equivalent quality to the shitty Singer and will undoubtedly break immediately as well so I’d rather not.)
But the serger has been going strong since I got it fixed a couple of years ago, pending the lower looper getting rethreaded (it unthreaded itself just now and I don’t have it in me to figure out why just now), so. You can do a lot of sewing on a serger, just 0 topstitching, so any topstitching on these projects will be By Hand.
