Hi Wendy,
 WB> Hi Lovely Lily Lady!
 WB> I was thinking of you when using my sewing machine and thought
 WB> you might get a laugh and a half out of my predicament.  So,
Seems the machine has a temperament of its' own, right?
 WB> My dear hubby came home from work the first week of December
 WB> with a request for a stocking he could hang outside his work
 WB> cube and people sneak over when you leave for a conference or
 WB> to go to the bathroom or get a soft drink, and stick some sort
 WB> of little treat or something in your stocking.  So, he didn't
 WB> have one and needed one.  I struggled with a pattern and got to
Knowing the way I operate, I would have just cut something out free
hand, sometimes those patterns are more bother than they'reworth.
 WB> my machine...and made him one.  It wasn't perfect but he loved
 WB> it because I made it.
Of course; Steve loved the vest & tie I did for him using the computer
bug fabric I found in the Keepsake catalog.  He had no idea that the
fabric I bought the day after Thanksgiving was for a Christmas project
for him. (G)
 WB> one of the guys whose wife just won't do a thing for him, and
 WB> won't even let the guy go shopping on the way home from work.
 WB> He has to report home immediately after work and if he has to
Whew! Sounds like she's extremely insecure.
 WB> or 4 yards of it stuck in there!), cleaned the bobbin case and
 WB> bobbin, and started to sew again.  Same problem...the machine
 WB> would go about half an inch then stop.  I was getting pretty
 WB> upset by this time and was just about to open the window by the
 WB> sewing table and chuck it outside in the rain, you know?  hehe,
That's about the time I walk away from the machine, clear my head for a
few hours and come back to it.  Saves getting the urge to pitch the
machine.
 WB> with something else to do...right in the heart of Christmas
 WB> crafting season!  GRRRRRR!
Of course!  I did a jacket zipper replacement the day before Christmas;
could have used the time otherwise but with the weather turning cold and
snowy, it was well worth it.
 WB> bit, and then went back to ask the Lord what the problem was.  And
 WB> I got a clear message to check the way the machine was threaded on
 WB> top.  I said "Look Lord, the problem is where the bobbin is, not on
 WB> top!"  Isn't that typical of a stubborn woman?    So He told me,
Yep, and you know, He's never wrong.
 WB> the thread had popped out of the tension control area up top, plus
 WB> out of the take-up too!  Don't know how that happened but I fixed it
 WB> and you guessed it--machine worked perfectly with no screw ups after
Of course.
 WB> And you better believe I thanked the Lord for being so patient with
 WB> me and my horrible temper, too.  But I sure got a laugh out of it,
He probably did too; you know He's got a sense of humor.
 WB> I also found, while working on that stocking, the manual to my sewing
 WB> machine, which had been misplaced since last July or August.  So I got
 WB> a huge blessing from making that stocking!
I'm glad everything worked out.  Deborah (our younger daughter) had
Christmas in Edmund; after all herfussing about needing snow clothes,
they didn't have any of the white stuff and we did.
 WB> ... Every time I go near my sewing machine, it laughs at me!
I think mine says "Again? Can't you leave me alone?" (G)
Catch you later,
Ruth
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