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.

Comments

[lyriendel.livejournal.com]

Ha! In my family, when my mom's sewing machine breaks (or really, just about anything else), I get to come home and fix it. :P

I had major sewing machine trouble myself a few months ago, the thread kept getting caught in the shuttle, which was mysteriously getting scratched up by the needle every time this happened. Finally figured out the needle was too blunt and needed to be changed. Somehow I thought those things would last longer than that. But I guess that's why they give you so many refills.

[jethrien.livejournal.com]

A lot of the frustration here was that I haven't used this machine all that heavily. Most of the suggestions were along the lines of "blunted needle" and "scratched sewing surface", but I could look at it and see that everything was still sharp and shiny.