Jottings from a Sewing Shop

WHEN I HAD TO PUT RIGHT A MACHINE ANOTHER REPAIRER HAD WORKED ON

I had touched the needle bar before I started and my fingers got very oily and when I looked at the mechanism my worse fear was realised as it was covered with far too much oil. The thread guide at the top of the needle had actually filled up with oil which had run down the needle bar.

The stitching was attrocious

I have been having a bit of a spring clean in the last few weeks. The store was getting a bit cluttered and I thought that I should sort it out (Actually what happened was that my wife Sue said, “That store is a tip, you can hardly get in there anymore, isn’t it time you sorted it out?”). To be honest, I hadn’t realised what we actually had in the way of accessories and parts for machines. In a sewing machine shop you tend to acquire various machines which are turn out not to be repairable  or are uneconomical to...

Whilst cleaning out some of the old file in my faithful old Macbook (9 years old now!) I camee accross some old blog post which I wrote a few years ago. I thought  I would post a few of them on our new website. This is one I wrote in 2014. At Last! I can get to writing a new post. I wonder, sometimes, if it may be a mistake to go away on holiday. We went away for a few days in September and it has taken me this long to get on top of things again. Mind you,...

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I often get asked about those annoying little lumps that occur on your embroidery thread, which we call ‘Caterpillar. This is not a technical term but we think it describes what these little lumps of shredded thread look like, a little fuzzy caterpillar clinging to the thread.