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And then it's stuck...
Jul. 18th, 2007 11:35 pmI am *very* masochistic. We went pants shopping with my mom and I agreed to hem two pants she bought that were waaaaaaaaaay too long. Yeah, masochistic, cause we all know only curtains are more boring than hemming pants.
I thought I'd do that before starting on the skirt mock-up for her suit. I marked the hem, trimmed the excess length off, pinned it in place, pressed it, took the sewing machine out of storage and... dang ! it's stuck. It moves one millimeter in each direction, no more. That's a symptom I've never had with a sewing machien before, and a brief inspection of the nasty ivol thing showed no plausible reason for it being stuck. *sigh*
I've hemmed the first pant by hand (which was, of course, shorter than the whole putting the machine up, trying to make it work, puttign it back into torage until someone can bring it to the repairshop...), I'd have done so for the second one as well anyway (I would not have trusted the 50 years old Singer with heavy jeans), but I'm not fond of assembling the mock-up by hand...
Maybe I'll jsut use my new/old Sphynx singer. That's the good news : as far as I can tell, it's working, making pretty neat and regular stitches. Saddly, the pedal is lost, but it somehow works as a handcrank-machine-without-handle. Not perfect, but could be doable.
Ooops, I jsut noticed I left the fabric for said toile outside... Well, it can't harm if it gets a little damp overnight, it'll be easier to iron. I was pretty lucky with said fabric. The fabric shop here is pretty crappy (although it's the same brand as my favorite in Grenoble), but I was lucky to find a 2 euros/meter poly-cotton satin in a color which made my mom squee. I think we'll go back in the next few day to get more of it. No real splurging danger there anyway, as the fabrics they have are mostly yucky pucky poly prints in mismatched colors and leopard patterns, and the store is so messy a cat mom wouldn't find her kittens in there.
ETA : and hurray for LJ being back !
I thought I'd do that before starting on the skirt mock-up for her suit. I marked the hem, trimmed the excess length off, pinned it in place, pressed it, took the sewing machine out of storage and... dang ! it's stuck. It moves one millimeter in each direction, no more. That's a symptom I've never had with a sewing machien before, and a brief inspection of the nasty ivol thing showed no plausible reason for it being stuck. *sigh*
I've hemmed the first pant by hand (which was, of course, shorter than the whole putting the machine up, trying to make it work, puttign it back into torage until someone can bring it to the repairshop...), I'd have done so for the second one as well anyway (I would not have trusted the 50 years old Singer with heavy jeans), but I'm not fond of assembling the mock-up by hand...
Maybe I'll jsut use my new/old Sphynx singer. That's the good news : as far as I can tell, it's working, making pretty neat and regular stitches. Saddly, the pedal is lost, but it somehow works as a handcrank-machine-without-handle. Not perfect, but could be doable.
Ooops, I jsut noticed I left the fabric for said toile outside... Well, it can't harm if it gets a little damp overnight, it'll be easier to iron. I was pretty lucky with said fabric. The fabric shop here is pretty crappy (although it's the same brand as my favorite in Grenoble), but I was lucky to find a 2 euros/meter poly-cotton satin in a color which made my mom squee. I think we'll go back in the next few day to get more of it. No real splurging danger there anyway, as the fabrics they have are mostly yucky pucky poly prints in mismatched colors and leopard patterns, and the store is so messy a cat mom wouldn't find her kittens in there.
ETA : and hurray for LJ being back !
