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02-21-2012, 11:50 PM
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02-22-2012, 04:38 AM
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Okay, since I didn't get back here yesterday, they were supposed to be beignets. 
They were probably closer to cream puffs though. I made them with choux pastry, baked, and just put powdered sugar on them. More "eggy" than the beignets I remember (made with yeast dough), but easier. I pretty much followed the Good Eats recipe. Now I have a gazillion little puffs to use up.
My mother used to make us donuts from canned biscuits! Dusted them in sugar and cinnamon. Those were so good when we were little. I never could get the hang of frying things, and mine don't turn out as well.
They were probably closer to cream puffs though. I made them with choux pastry, baked, and just put powdered sugar on them. More "eggy" than the beignets I remember (made with yeast dough), but easier. I pretty much followed the Good Eats recipe. Now I have a gazillion little puffs to use up. My mother used to make us donuts from canned biscuits! Dusted them in sugar and cinnamon. Those were so good when we were little.
I never could get the hang of frying things, and mine don't turn out as well.
02-22-2012, 05:36 AM
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I'm with you on the 403 or the 503 - much easier beast to tame...
The lid to the machine should say how to use the disks. I'm thinking the bottom (or right hand gauge goes on S - can't remember the other but it should say) Put your selectors in the configuration for special then make sure the disk is in right. I'm sure you already did that or looked in the manual... So here is what I would look at after making sure I already read the manual or the lid.
Is the stitch selector moving all the way to the top and locking in it's spots? Those stitch selectors tend to get gummy after a couple weeks of setting around. You have to go easy on oil but you have to have oil. If the oil has dried in the posts or in any little place you have to clean it out and re-oil. While you are in there clean out the zig zag pin - it is next to the cam stack and under the rectangle thingy the readers ride on. Take off the lid - then open up the nose door and push on the needle bar you can see it the zig zag pin thiny move side to side next to the needle bar.... follow that bar with your eyes to the readers - it's under there - when you push on the needle bar you will see it go in and out - it needs cleaning and oiling once in a while - so does the 503 and the 403...
The lid to the machine should say how to use the disks. I'm thinking the bottom (or right hand gauge goes on S - can't remember the other but it should say) Put your selectors in the configuration for special then make sure the disk is in right. I'm sure you already did that or looked in the manual... So here is what I would look at after making sure I already read the manual or the lid.
Is the stitch selector moving all the way to the top and locking in it's spots? Those stitch selectors tend to get gummy after a couple weeks of setting around. You have to go easy on oil but you have to have oil. If the oil has dried in the posts or in any little place you have to clean it out and re-oil. While you are in there clean out the zig zag pin - it is next to the cam stack and under the rectangle thingy the readers ride on. Take off the lid - then open up the nose door and push on the needle bar you can see it the zig zag pin thiny move side to side next to the needle bar.... follow that bar with your eyes to the readers - it's under there - when you push on the needle bar you will see it go in and out - it needs cleaning and oiling once in a while - so does the 503 and the 403...
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02-22-2012, 05:40 AM
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02-22-2012, 05:46 AM
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Well, I dood it. And I must report back that all expectations of birds nests and other catastrophes didn't come to pass.
It worked very well.
I set up both cone stands, one with white and one with red serger thread as the top thread, and the yellow Coats machine quilting thread in the bobbin:
I grabbed a small scrap of denim and went around in circles. Worked really good.
Then tried it on pre-quilted scraps:
If you look really close you can see the yellow bobbin thread towards the top and the red and white top thread at the bottom. The tension never gave me the slightest bit of trouble.
Then I grabbed a bigger piece of denim and doubled it:
It sewed through that just as it would have with a single thread. No problems at all.
To get both threads through the needle I had to go from a size 14 to a size 16. I couldn't get both threads through the 14.
I also noticed that as the two threads entered the spring of my widget they twisted and formed a single thread. I'm wondering if it is the circles of the spring that created that effect. No matter how it happened it worked very will through the tensioners, guides and needle.
My next experiment will be three colors of variegated thread. That should be pretty.
Joe
It worked very well.
I set up both cone stands, one with white and one with red serger thread as the top thread, and the yellow Coats machine quilting thread in the bobbin:
I grabbed a small scrap of denim and went around in circles. Worked really good.
Then tried it on pre-quilted scraps:
If you look really close you can see the yellow bobbin thread towards the top and the red and white top thread at the bottom. The tension never gave me the slightest bit of trouble.
Then I grabbed a bigger piece of denim and doubled it:
It sewed through that just as it would have with a single thread. No problems at all.
To get both threads through the needle I had to go from a size 14 to a size 16. I couldn't get both threads through the 14.
I also noticed that as the two threads entered the spring of my widget they twisted and formed a single thread. I'm wondering if it is the circles of the spring that created that effect. No matter how it happened it worked very will through the tensioners, guides and needle.
My next experiment will be three colors of variegated thread. That should be pretty.
Joe
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02-22-2012, 05:59 AM
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02-22-2012, 06:14 AM
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This makes me love my 319w even more as it is so definitive on which stitch you are getting! Those typewriter keys are black and white - no gray - you get what you ask for like the 503a!
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02-22-2012, 06:33 AM
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Glenn, I would love to see your WW8, but the picture on my computer got cut off both here and in the photo shop! I don't know why that happens sometimes? I get whole photos most of the time, but once in a while I only get a partial photo come through!
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02-22-2012, 07:50 AM
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