….of my sewing machine. This is EXACTLY why I refuse to invest in nice machinery……I run things into the ground. I broke a needle today and I think it bent the entire column of my machine. At the same time the bobbin guts jumped out. At the time, I was sewing at full speed through an ungodly amount of fabric, with the wrong needle, and some black thread from the 1960s because I ran out. Now my needle seems to be off about 0.1mm and will not catch the bobbin thread anymore.
Since I couldn’t physically crawl down into the machine to see what else I destroyed in the process I used my small cybershot camera to peer down into the guts. I love machinery…..so I thought the photos were sort of cool, even though they didn’t help locate the problem.
Way too much thread lint…..
Have you seen this cool animation yet on how a sewing machine works?
Maybe my new sewing machine will get here before I have to figure out what is wrong with this one. Thanks so much to everyone that voted for my projects on Instructables! I didn’t win the serger (I think I lost to an amoeba!) but I did win a sewing machine (almost the exact machine I have!) for the beanbags….and just in time it seems.