Monday’s Mish Mash
When an Old Friend Bites the Dust
Last year, my sewing machine started skipping stitches. At first, it was just one stitch, every so often. Nothing to worry about, right? Then it started skipping more frequently. A few weeks ago, I started a new project that involved a long top-stitched seam. When I finished the seam, I was horrified at how it looked. (I tried to take a photo, but with ivory thread on ivory fabric, it just wouldn’t show up clearly.)
I tried using the blunt tip of my seam ripper to gently pull the stitches taut, one at a time, but even after I tightened the entire seam, it still looked awful. There was no use denying it—my precious sewing machine was gravely ill. I knew it was overdue for a tuneup. In nine years, I’d performed no maintenance beyond my weekly cleaning and oiling routine. But the machine had gone those nine years without so much as a hiccup. Continue reading
