tension slide

So frustrating! I spent my class time last Wednesday sewing 8 circles onto the squares, and came home to finish the other 40 at home. Well, I finally got myself all organized

kitchen table aka sewing station

and stitched my first piece. I couldn’t work it out at first, but it was all wrong! Can you see the puckering? It’s all kinda wavy!

pulled thread causes waves (of dissention!)

I finally worked out (in consultation with the tech support a.k.a. daughter #1, Devorah) that what was required was a tension adjustment. It was rather bizarre actually having to call her for advice on sewing, something I’ve done all my life. Thing is, I haven’t needed to mess with the tension on my machine for decades I reckon. So long that I’d forgotten how to adjust the bobbin tension. Good thing Devorah’s a sewer too, so she could point me in the right direction. Thanks Devorah. So I messed around with the tension, starting from the “normal” position of 6, and had to go all the way down to 1!

tension slide - 6 down to 1

And what’s the very next thing I did? Yep, that’s right. I called the service man to come pick up my poor old wonderful ’73 machine to give her an oil change. In the meantime, I’m not sure if I should perservere and see if I can get it sewing nicely, or call it a day and wait patiently till next Wednesday’s class when I can use their old Husqvarna. I’ll see. Maybe I’ll give it one more run. Tomorrow.

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