patimint

There is a machine just like that. Its called the National two spool. Remember the little wooden spools of thread?
That's what it uses for a bobbin. I don't know why they stopped making them. I think it was a wonderful idea!!
Here's a link to learn all about it.

http://www.mckennalinn.com/TwoSpool.html[/quote]

Love this site. Love the machine. Why can't some sewing machine company make one like that now?

bearisgray

or when I had a quilt - almost complete - hanging over the ironing board - and one of the cats decided to climb up on it - and toreit in a couple of places

tjradj

:oops:
don't you just hate it when you spend hours cutting out the exact number of blocks you need and then sew them together and find you are one block short so you spend hours searching everywhere because you know you cut out enough and then discover you actually sewed two together as one


Will you stop looking over my shoulder already!!! :lol:
I just did that this week!

mrs. fitz

A few replies back "tjradj" wrote about when you KNOW you cut the right number of blocks but are one short. I just had that happen to me 15 minutes ago. The missing one will turn up later tonight after I've cut another one.

purplefiend

I machine quilted a block from another quilt to the center of the backing of a twin size quilt....that block's still there. :oops: :lol: :roll:

Linda B

WilliP: When I was ironing a bunch of Grandmother's Flower Garden blocks my mother hand-pieced back in 1930, I came across a couple that had one of the hexagons which had been pieced -- in otherwords, she didn't have a large enough piece for the hexagon, so she used scraps of the same fabric and pieced them together to have a large enough piece! It was done so well that from 2 feet away you could hardly see the seam.

skydiver70

Or you drop a needle that is threaded and you still can't find it. You go to church on Sunday morning and when you come back the thread is hanging out your cat's mouth. This happened to our cat several years ago and fortunately the vet was able to get it back out without surgery. Lucky the string was hanging out of his mouth or we would not have known about it.

tjradj

Or when you come to the end of a seam and the machine won't stop - because the foot control slipped under the foot of the table and it's holding it down - at full speed!

sandpat

:lol::lol:...the visual in my head is too funny of that one tjradj!

purplefiend

Before I got my Pfaff fixed it used to do that all on its own with no assistance. EEEEKK!!!!!!!!! I'd be stipple quilting and all of a sudden it would start sewing at top speed and the only way to shut it off was to turn it off.
Sewing/quilting shouldn't be quite that exciting! :shock:
I found out that the machine wasn't equipped with the correct pedal. My Pfaff dealer who sold me the machine wasn't being very helpful, they kept telling me I was doing something wrong. :x I am the 2nd owner.