October 26, 2002
Memo to self
Memo to self: When sewing, never ever forget to lower the foot of the sewing machine. Even if the fabric being sewn is very thick so that it pretty much meets the foot when it's raised. And, y'know, makes it easy to forget to lower the foot....
What happens is that the bobbin part of the sewing machine action gets very confused, and while the top of the sewing looks fine, the underside is a mess of big loops of thread, and the thread gets wrapped around the bobbin spindle, and the bobbin actually pops out of its holder, and your fabric manages to get connected to the sewing machine by about ten or twenty tangled threads, which you have to cut and extract. And then you have to pull out all the seams you just sewed, so you can do them right. Ugh.
"Still, the most detailed reports of the battle [of the Alamo] come from
Mexican soldiers. It turns out that the stirring stories of heroic deeds
so cherished by Texans were arrived at mostly by that creative process
we call "making it up," the basis of much American history."
--Cecil Adams
Posted
by blahedo
at 11:38pm
on 26 Oct 2002
