{"id":21396,"date":"2013-12-21T11:57:26","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T18:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=21396"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T00:37:39","slug":"sewing-machine-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/sewing-machine-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Machine Frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sigh.<\/p>\n

My iron died earlier in the week. I did find a spare, but it smells funny when I press. Fortunately, Amazon has the iron that I wanted, the Panasonic<\/a> Sarah recommended in her DVD\/online class<\/a>,\u00a0 and it arrived yesterday. I haven’t tried it yet, but do not anticipate any problems. Of course, one has to sew things together in order to have need of an iron to press them.<\/p>\n

Yesterday my machine refused to continue stitching the decorative stitch I was using to finish a bag that will, with any luck, be a part of a Christmas gift. I had done half the top stitching and then the machine switched to straight stitch.<\/p>\n

This is really unfair. I have two weeks ahead of me (minus the holidays) to stitch and my machine acts up? It couldn’t wait until January 5th?<\/p>\n

As luck would have it I got a brochure from my ‘local’ dealer for new machines at Holiday prices. I don’t want to buy a new machine now for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. Money doesn’t grow on trees<\/li>\n
  2. I like my machine and want it to just work<\/li>\n
  3. I don’t want to buy a machine in a rush; I’d like time to do some research<\/li>\n
  4. I don’t want to learn to use a new machine right at this moment<\/li>\n
  5. I’d rather buy my dream machine when the Young Man is out of college and we have some spare funds.<\/li>\n
  6. If I buy an interim machine now, I will feel like I have to wait longer to buy a dream machine….unless I win the lottery, of course.<\/li>\n
  7. A new machine would have to fit in my table, because I certainly don’t want to buy a new table and the machines with the larger harp space don’t fit.<\/li>\n
  8. I would have to get a new insert for my table<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The machine that caught my eye in the brochure is the Janome 6600P<\/a>. It seems like it would be a good interim machine. It has similar features to the machine I have without the embroidery module. In looking at the web page, I can’t tell what kind of decorative stitches it has.<\/p>\n

    Well, hopefully, I can get the last bit of decorative stitching done and then switch to the Jem for regular piecing.<\/p>\n

    What a pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sigh. My iron died earlier in the week. I did find a spare, but it smells funny when I press. Fortunately, Amazon has the iron that I wanted, the Panasonic Sarah recommended in her DVD\/online class,\u00a0 and it arrived yesterday. I haven’t tried it yet, but do not anticipate any problems. Of course, one has … Continue reading “Sewing Machine Frustration”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[379],"tags":[326,57],"class_list":["post-21396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-379","tag-off-topic-general","tag-special-whine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}