Today I posted something on my blog, but then I noticed that the time stamps were wrong. Ooohhh, you just have to go to the settings tab and change your time zone. MLIA
Sewing Maniac - Episode One
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Yesterday I was soooo excited to use my shiny, vintage, imported from Iloilo, sewing machine. Everybody! Meet my Singer! *woot woot* She's pwetty, isn't she? Just like an excited little girl laying out Barbie in her dollhouse, I was giddy in setting up my room for my first run. I turned the lights on, turned the AC on, turned the radio on, laid out all my materials, threaded the machine and then sat on my pink-cushioned chair with my hands holding the cloth underneath the needle. I gave the wheel a spin, stepped on the pedal and shrieked in delight at the whirring sound....then...wait for it....
nothing happened.
Oh crap. I kept trying to run the cloth through but it wouldn't move! Then I saw that the needle wasn't moving so no way was the cloth going to go through. But the pedal was moving so what gives???? Hmmm, after breathing fire through my nostrils, ahem, i mean after closer investigation, turns out that the machine belt linking the big wheel to the little wheel wasn't working. You see, the pedal is linked to the big wheel, the big wheel turns the little wheel, the little wheel moves the needle. That's my idiot guide to self on how my Singer works. I tried in vain to get it to run but nahhhh, I'm in over my head on this one. So what else could my sew-itching hands do? Calmly, put the cloth down, then turn around and change my status message on Facebook. Episode one of sewing maniac - epic fail.
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