Saturday, March 21, 2015

how to break your sewing machine

My streak of creativity got cut short, chopped down in it's prime so to speak.

I was on Pinterest a few, whenevers, ago and I saw some pillows and instantly thought, hmmm, I can do that. So I did and I made some for me and sewed them by hand which was exactly the look I was going for. Then I decided to add to the creativity and step it up a notch or two and it involved sewing with my machine.

Everything went fabulously and I made these.






Flowers are cute and all but I am a heart girl. I just love hearts. So I nipped off to the shop and came back with hearts galore. I planned on buying felt squares but Hobby Lobby had a bag of pre -cut hearts. SCORE.

Sounds perfect doesn't it and it would have been had they not been sticky hearts. They were peel and stick. Hmpf.  But I peeled, stuck and started sewing. andbrokemymachine.




I realised right off the bat that it was hard going but I am not one to quit to I thought my machine shouldn't either. It clanged and at one point banged then it's foot fell off.

Right off, like snap and it's foot was just laying there.

All a bit nasty and tragic really.  As I tried to pull the fabric out it was stuck, seriously stuck. There were about 30 threads coming up from the bottom and it took me 10-ish minutes to free my sewing from it's jaws. The bobbin casing thing was tied in to the machine with a plethora of little pink threads. And everything was sticky and gummed up from the adhesive on the hearts. Sigh. The adhesive was everywhere and everything was sticky and not just a little bit but thick and claggy sticky.

As I unwound all the threads I had to unlatch the housing and as I pulled a thread the whole doohickey fell out and landed on the table and I had no idea how to put it back together. NONE.

So there it was. RIP little Brother.
Cause of Death: dead from thread.

I was furious.

I was sad.

I jumped into fix it mode and gawd knows how but I fixed it.

So I am still happily sewing cushion covers.

I"ll be back with more soon.


3 comments:

  1. I knew halfway down that you would find a way to fix the sewing machine! Nice pillows!

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  2. Love, love, love the heart pillows. Never, never, never sew sticky stuff with sewing machine!! Been there!! Done that!! Not fun trying to clean up mess:(

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