Oh NOES!

May 20, 2008 in Quilts and Quilting | 4 comments

WAAAAAH! Just when I thought my overlocker and I were going to be friends:

Lat night I got the coverstitch set up and stitching beautifully. Tonight? ARRRRRRRRRRGH!!!! NOTHING would work! Needles coming unthreaded, tensions that would not reset - I unthreaded and rethreaded the whole shebang. Read through all the instructions ticking them off as I went. Adjusted each tension a lot of times. Tried the ultimate computer nerd trick: “Have you tried turning it off and turning it on again?” all the way down to the power point.

THEN - one of the little grub screws that holds the needles in place CAME ALL THE WAY OUT and I can’t get in back in again and I’m terrified I might have stripped the start of the thread in the hole it goes into. At least I have the teeny weeny thang, but - ARRGGGH!

Poor Mr Beloved has just spent the past half hour rubbing my back as I sobbed, full on SOBBED - with only being able to *sob* get*sob* a *sob* single *sob* word*sob* out* sob*each*sob* breath *sob*!!

I’ve packed the machine up ready to see if Dale the (wonderful) Sewing Machine man can see me as an EMERGENCY tomorrow…. meantime, I think I’d better go to bed, don’t you?

  1. Marcie’s avatar

    Marcie on May 21, 2008 at 11:42 am

    So sorry for your overlocker woes, I hope the Sewing Machine Man can turn your tears to laughter again.
    Just to cheer you up in the meantime, you might enjoy this site:
    http://sewing.patternreview.com/news
    they do a really good newsletter too.

  2. v3.0’s avatar

    v3.0 on May 21, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    I had a look at the poor wee machine today. I got it mended without needing to go to mister professional-but-costly.

    Some of the Puter Geek stuff translates to Uberlockers, when it’s just Small Moving Parts in Inaccessible Places.

    Of course the Law Of Help Desk means I can’t look at it till after the owner has stopped being upset, so last night it was better to just be The Guy Who Rubs the Shoulders.

  3. Sue’s avatar

    Sue on May 21, 2008 at 6:29 pm

    Mr Beloved your a good man for looking after Caity so well… i still hate overlockers!

  4. Dianne Cahill’s avatar

    Dianne Cahill on May 22, 2008 at 7:30 am

    This is precisely why my overlocker sits a-rustin in the cupboard.