here is my new Viking
04-23-2010, 11:24 AM
#47
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Originally Posted by janRN
I love my Viking but I wish I had that clear extension table that you have. Did it come with it?
Enjoy and learn all the functions--2 yrs later I still don't know all of them LOL.
Enjoy and learn all the functions--2 yrs later I still don't know all of them LOL.
As for the clear extension table, I bought mine separately for about $90?? A lot of money for a piece of plastic but sometimes very handy, especially during piecing where most of a project can be laid out on the extension table within finger reach.
I have another extension table for my Baby Lock but dearest significant other tossed my tote bag, with extension table and cutting mat inside, onto a chair. Unfortunately, the arm of the chair made it land cock-eyed and the table snapped in two, length wise. Yes, he's still alive but only until I find out super glue, or some other method, won't repair the table. Then he better cough it up, honey!! :hunf:
04-23-2010, 01:57 PM
#49
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Location: western Pa
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Thank you Melinda and QBeth-I don't feel so dumb now that I'm the only one who hasn't learned all the functions and stitches. I sewed on a Montgomery Ward machine for 30 years=it had a knee lever not a foot pedal and a manual pressure foot lifter. It took me 6 months to master those 2 changes LOL. (Sometimes I still reach for the pressure foot lever.)
04-23-2010, 03:35 PM
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Location: NW Florida Panhandle
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My DH did without sodas or lunch at work for a great long while to buy me a sewing machine from a shop that was going out of business. Got me the floor model, so it did NOT come with an owners manual, or any lessons...what he brought home was all I got. He loved me so much, and had absolute faith that I could use any machine out there...Oh how this princess in the tower fell...
I had learned on an old treadle machine, side loading bobbin that looked and worked more like a shuttle, not round...you just popped it in, and went...hummed along so nice.
Imagine how fruserated I was at trying to figure out how an electric machine worked, and never did figure out that the reason it kept making knots under, was that I was not "threading the bobbin thread"...
So after about 10 years, I gave it away.
We moved to another country (Central America) shortly after I had given away my love gift...and the new neighbor had one just like it...and she knew the bobbin needed threading and had a real owners manual.
I had to sew by hand for several years, but he did buy me another machine...but this time from a shop that was staying open, and with all the lessons I wanted...
Still feel so dumb?
Personally, I feel like this is the gal who sould be wearing the dunce cap...or sign reading DUMMY.
Do I have to sign my name?
I had learned on an old treadle machine, side loading bobbin that looked and worked more like a shuttle, not round...you just popped it in, and went...hummed along so nice.
Imagine how fruserated I was at trying to figure out how an electric machine worked, and never did figure out that the reason it kept making knots under, was that I was not "threading the bobbin thread"...
So after about 10 years, I gave it away.
We moved to another country (Central America) shortly after I had given away my love gift...and the new neighbor had one just like it...and she knew the bobbin needed threading and had a real owners manual.
I had to sew by hand for several years, but he did buy me another machine...but this time from a shop that was staying open, and with all the lessons I wanted...
Still feel so dumb?
Personally, I feel like this is the gal who sould be wearing the dunce cap...or sign reading DUMMY.
Do I have to sign my name?
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