I am working on my painted lace cuff bracelets. I need to finish the edges with a satin stitch. My sewing machine is not cooperating and I am ready to resort to violence. Which leads me to this: Why are sewing machines still made like they were 100 years ago? Yeah, I know, you can spend $9,000 on a Bernina embroidery machine and it will do all sorts of fancy stuff. But the basic machinery is the same on all sewing machines. Clunky threading process, dangerous banging up and down needle, hard-to-get-to-and-impossible-to-adjust bobbin, all arranged to make us go blind and/or suffer permanent nerve damage in hands and neck.
For now, the bracelets are on hold until I can get someone to help me figure out how to adjust the bobbin tension, which the manufacturer has deliberately made almost impossible to adjust. It's completely trial and error. Like we have nothing to do but sit around and fiddle with this stuff for hours.
I bet if men sewed these machines would be made much differently.
Here, here!! And if men used them, they'd have a built-in beer holder, too. ;-) Hugs, Cathy
ReplyDeleteHahahahaha! And they would have remote controls which the men could never find.
ReplyDeleteAre you trying to sew on the machine in the picture? Is this a Janome 6600? If so, I have that machine. Email me and maybe I can help you with some settings.
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