Mommy can still fix everything

[jethrien]

I'm working on a Ren Faire costume for Chuckro. (Still a little nervous - I don't actually have a pattern, and I'm going off a costume maker's site online. I've already made one major mistake and managed to fix it. We'll see how this comes out.) My sewing machine spontaneously stopped working last night. After rereading the manual, and fiddling, and looking up stuff online, I finally gave up and called my mom. Who, of course, knew how to fix it.

Mommy can still make everything better.

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[wendywoowho.livejournal.com]

What was wrong, and what magic mojo did Mommy suggest to fix it?

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

She reminded me that this machine had pulled this trick before, and last time it turned out that the upper thread had managed to slip off the doohickey whose name I can't remember that goes up and down. It doesn't look like it's slipped off, but if you rethread completely, it starts working again. I'd remembered that I'd had a problem before, and couldn't remember what to do to fix it. A visual inspection of the upper thread looks like it's fine, and the way the fabric behaves, it looks like the problem is with the bobbin. So I took the bobbin out over and over, trying to figure out what was wrong with the shuttle, and never looked at the thingy-that-goes-up-and-down.

After talking to her, I rethreaded the upper thread, and suddenly everything was happy again.