My trusty Pfaff has been leading me up the garden path for the last few weeks. It sometimes takes off on its own with only the lightest touch of the foot peddle and has to be forcibly restrained; it won’t wind the spools for the lower thread in a tidy fashion anymore and I wouldn’t like to tell you about the escapades it got up to when I tried to gather fabric to set in a sleeve or even worse, its antics with the double needle.

It needs a good sorting…as we Geordies say…

Here it is, waiting meekly to be taken off to the lovely Pfaff repair man. Better behaved than its been for ages, if the truth be told.

This course of action has rather thrown a spanner in the ‘finishing the UFOs’ campaign’. Machine quilting is now on hold for at least a couple of weeks. Even basting my Lumiere de Noel top is out as the back needs to be pieced.

At least I won’t be able to weaken and jump into any new quilting projects for a while though.

So now all I can do is hand-quilt the Winter White Schnibble that has been queueing sulkily in a corner for ages….or I can knit Christmas socks…

Being without my sewing machine feels a bit like having lost my handbag. The temporary cessation of life as I know it.

Aaaaaaargh!

Helen

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