Manual...
Seat cover with duct tape!
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Before All Else Fails
I found this beautiful vintage sewing machine at the dump and lugged it home. An internet search and a few days later, I had the manual. It's a tank and it does work. Thing is I HAVE NO FRIGGIN IDEA what I'm doing - manual or not. I need to take it to a sewing shop (? do those exist? I don't know!) and get a few of the accessories that it no longer has and some needles and thread and stuff. Until then, things are getting done my way. I believe they call this style "by hook or by crook":)
Manual...
Seat cover with duct tape!
Manual...
Seat cover with duct tape!
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6 comments:
you are a funny person.
Duct tape/high speed tape/ remedy for all things. Have used it as bandage, rope, hose patch, glue. Only diff is mine is OD green.
Matt
I inherited a beautiful Singer sewing machine about 7 years ago. It was all together and I used it until the thread on the bobbin ran out. I couldn't figure out how to rethread the thing and after finding online instructions, being unable to decipher the threading process and feeling frustrated and slightly simple, I just decided that the machine would be a very lovely, somewhat romantic symbol of what I'd like to someday take the reins of...
Whenever anyone comes by who knows how to work a sewing machine, I open it up and ask for visual instruction. Somehow, even the experts (who all say it's very easy), have never managed to re-thread my bobbin!
That being said, feel no shame if the years go by and you find you have a great ornament in your home shaped like a sewing machine.
And if you do figure it out, send me the duct tape. I'll still be patching things together willy-nilly!!!
Thanks Caline - great story, made me feel better:) I tried to comment on your blog and could NOT not matter how hard I tried...
here is my comment to the post with the Prayer...
I don't live in Colorado anymore partly because I can NOT take that cold (and dryness - everybody looks like a shrunken apple head to me:) but I did not make the correct move to escape the cold. Northeast! However, I now own gortex! Great prayer, always so hard to remember - so it makes the perfect mantra. I love your blog and look forward to meeting you someday too!
camalama...
I started your blog from the beginning today. Yes, I went back to that first awesome post with you at the first sonogram.
What a great great journey.
I love the "To:us From: god"...and your christmas card that year...thats only 2 years ago and your humongous pregnant viking self...
When I go back and look at all that I am just blown away. Finley is....well, you know.
...all love all good...
annie
awww, i just love you annie. i love that whole year, my whole pregnancy, and I LOVE that the blog remembers - we have to make it a priority to find out how to save the whole thing to disk or something??
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