Lending out your sewing machine.
#101
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I have read recently that Singer brand needles should be used ONLY in Singer machines. Apparently they are now making needles a bit differently than in the past. I don't remember the technical reason but I do remember that it was mentioned that most of the other needles that I had ever heard of were OK to use in any other machine...just not Singer needles.
#102
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Location: Merritt Island, FL
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I have read recently that Singer brand needles should be used ONLY in Singer machines. Apparently they are now making needles a bit differently than in the past. I don't remember the technical reason but I do remember that it was mentioned that most of the other needle brands that I had ever heard of were OK to use in any other machine...just not Singer needles.
#103
I have read recently that Singer brand needles should be used ONLY in Singer machines. Apparently they are now making needles a bit differently than in the past. I don't remember the technical reason but I do remember that it was mentioned that most of the other needle brands that I had ever heard of were OK to use in any other machine...just not Singer needles.
#104
if they just wanted to sew a seam back up I'd offer to do it for them.
If they were interested in getting into sewing I'd offer to help them run down a good simple vintage machine and help them learn to use it.
If they were interested in getting into sewing I'd offer to help them run down a good simple vintage machine and help them learn to use it.
#108
No one has ever borrowed either of my machines. I might let someone sew on my older Viking 500 (in my home under my supervision) but it was my first "expensive" machine and I'm pretty attached to it, so maybe not. As for my other machine, no one touches my Bernina 730E but me! I always think of my dear neighbor, who back in the day bought a new Janome Memory Craft 8000 that her daughter begged and pleaded to borrow...then she took it home and dropped it down a flight of stairs!
#110
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Nope. No way, no how. I would let them use it at my house, but not take it home with them. If they don't have one of their own, I'd be afraid they'd start messing with settings and whatever or trying to cram too many layers through or something and I'd be having to take my machine to the doctor. Nope. I'd have to be able to supervise.
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