jennb

Ahh I love the nights where I wake up and can't go back to sleep! Well, today I have to take hubby to get labwork done before he has surgery next week. Who knows how much I will get accomplished during his recovery. He's having surgery on one foot and both Achilles tendons and will be confined to bed/wheelchair for at least 8 weeks. I can't say I'm jumping for joy on this one but I'm happy he won't be in pain everyday like he is now. I'm desperately trying to get this bedding knocked out beforehand. Got the pillow done now all that remains is the crib quilt and bumper pads...
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BoJangles

That is so funny! I guess you sew from the floor - how interesting!

Nancy

BoJangles

Hummmmmm, I remember Cathy, Mizkaki, telling me that you will get skipped stitches if the eye of the needle doesn't rotate across the hook at the right time. Now I will have to remember how to re-time my 319w as my 4 years old grandson did a number on that machine again! It is all messed up with the needle hitting the hook - AGAIN! So frustrating as that is my at home piecing machine these days - it is always set up ready to go! Now, I will have to remove it from the treadle and re-time it for the second time!

Nancy

BoJangles

The bobbin winder is high, which would make the machine a 127 - unless it was converted because it is not in a treadle? I know people use to move the bobbin winder up when they took the machines out of a treadle, but the machines made orginially with the bobbin winder high up next to the hand wheel were 127's.

Nancy

BoJangles

Joe, that Kenmore looks like it could be run over by a tank and still survive!

Jenn, love the pillow - nice job! Also, your 28 is really nice. I didn't know the pheasant decals were used on the 28. I have a 27 with the pheasant decals. Those decals were only used for a short time, and only very early on!

Nancy

jennb

Well i said it was a 28 because the ismacs site says so based on the serial number but upon further review i think it might be a 27.


Oh and thanks on the pillow. On to the rest of the bedding. She is due Saturday so im.working furiously to beat the babys arrival!

J Miller

Nancy,

That 4 year old needs to be punished at this point. Once might be an accident, twice is deliberate. And were he my grand son, he'd be banned from the house until he learned or was taught to keep his hands off things.
For some reason that machine attracts his attention and if you can't stop him he will ruin it one of these times. If he hasn't all ready.

Personally I can't figure out how he's knocking it out of time. Hook timing is very hard to change just by accident. As is needle bar timing. We have a 319 and I've studied it some, so I'm pretty sure if he did really knock it out of time he had to work at it.

You've got to keep that kid away from your machines! Sorry, I get frustrated by grubby little hands going where they don't belong and can only be nice once.

Joe

J Miller

Nancy if it's the 120-49 it's just a shell with skeleton inside it. I've posted pics of it naked here before.

Joe

BoJangles

Jenn, just measure the machine. A 28 is just a 3/4 size 27. The 27/127 has a base that measures 16.5 X 7. If your machine measures that big - it would not be a 28! Yes, Singer's site does list your machine as a 28 of 1902. That would be the right time frame for those pheasant decals! It is extremely hard to find a machine with the pheasant decals in as nice a condition as yours.

Nancy

BoJangles

Hehehehehe - I agree, but I did not see him messing with the machine. He sleeps in what he calls my "up down bed" (a murphy bed) in the sewing room when he is here. The machine has been sewing beautifully since the last timming issue. I went in to use it last night and it was jammed pretty good - which makes me suspect the 4 year old! Anyway, it is out of timming again. I hate having to take it apart for the second time to time it, can't help thinking the first time I did it - it was just pure luck that I got it right with no skipped stitches issues! I am going to have to start putting it away when Marcus spends the night! Yes, my machines do attract his attention, but I can't discipline him if I don't see him doing it! Now, I just have to take the time and try again to fix the machine. I really like that treadle!

Nancy