Anyway, the machine which had refused to work for me in August 2011 refused to work for him the other day. Ha! It's not just me! He did however suggest that the problem was probably that it was full of fluff and needed cleaning out. Ah, I never thought of that. So today I googled 'cleaning fluff out of sewing machine' and found some useful advice. Armed with a screwdriver, a teaspoon, a vacuum cleaner and several kids paintbrushes I tackled the infernal machine and cleaned a quite astonishing amount of fluff out of it. And then I threaded it up with different colours of thread so I could see which thread was going wrong if it went wrong.
And then I tried it out.
And it works! Huzzah!
Incidentally My Beloved was gobsmacked that I had cleaned the fluff out of the machine.
'Did you find the instructions then?'
'No, I googled it.'
'...'
Awestruck seems the right word. I don't know why he was so surprised.
2 comments:
Wait ... a MAN thought you ought to look at the instructions? Most guys I know refuse to acknowledge the existence of instructions.
Congratulations on all counts! :)
Nah, he didn't think I *should*, more that he assumed that I would, if you see what I mean. If he really knew nothing about something his first port of call would be Google, it just didn't occur to him it'd be mine too :-). I don't think he realised how much I use Google/YouTube for things like knitting techniques and other such technical matters!
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