Hi Lovely Lily Lady!
I was thinking of you when using my sewing machine and thought
you might get a laugh and a half out of my predicament.  So,
just for you...
My dear hubby came home from work the first week of December
with a request for a stocking he could hang outside his work
cubicle.  Seems the group he works in, hangs one outside their
cube and people sneak over when you leave for a conference or
to go to the bathroom or get a soft drink, and stick some sort
of little treat or something in your stocking.  So, he didn't
have one and needed one.  I struggled with a pattern and got to
my machine...and made him one.  It wasn't perfect but he loved
it because I made it.
A day or two later he called with the request to make one for
one of the guys whose wife just won't do a thing for him, and
won't even let the guy go shopping on the way home from work.
He has to report home immediately after work and if he has to
work late she has a fit.  This man didn't have a stocking and
Tom said, "Will you make one for him, too?"  So I said OK, and
started to make the stocking...but the sewing machine, true to
form, kept breaking the thread or bunching it up underneath.  I
looked under there, cut the snagged thread (there were about 3
or 4 yards of it stuck in there!), cleaned the bobbin case and
bobbin, and started to sew again.  Same problem...the machine
would go about half an inch then stop.  I was getting pretty
upset by this time and was just about to open the window by the
sewing table and chuck it outside in the rain, you know?  hehe,
not in a good mood that day to begin with and I just got saddled
with something else to do...right in the heart of Christmas 
crafting season!  GRRRRRR!
Well I tossed a couple spools of thread on the floor, hollered a
bit, and then went back to ask the Lord what the problem was.  And
I got a clear message to check the way the machine was threaded on
top.  I said "Look Lord, the problem is where the bobbin is, not on
top!"  Isn't that typical of a stubborn woman?    So He told me,
"Check it out or quit asking me what the cause is!"  I looked, and
the thread had popped out of the tension control area up top, plus
out of the take-up too!  Don't know how that happened but I fixed it
and you guessed it--machine worked perfectly with no screw ups after
that!  
And you better believe I thanked the Lord for being so patient with 
me and my horrible temper, too.  But I sure got a laugh out of it,
after it was all over and the man had his stocking.
BTW he still hasn't figured out who made and gave him the stocking,
but he put a sign outside his cubicle thanking whoever "Mrs. Santa
Claus" was!  (I'd put a card in it signed with her name instead of
my own so he wouldn't know who did it).  hehe
I also found, while working on that stocking, the manual to my sewing
machine, which had been misplaced since last July or August.  So I got
a huge blessing from making that stocking!  
LadyBear Hugs,
Wendy
... Every time I go near my sewing machine, it laughs at me!
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