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My worst sewing week ever started with a broken bobbin winder
Last Tuesday I was on a roll making a linen summer dress, had all the pattern pieces cut perfect, when my 15 year old Singer just snapped the bobbin winder gear clean off. I spent the next 4 days trying to hand-wind every bobbin for the floral panels on this dress, and the tension was so messed up I had to rip out 3 hours of stitching on the bodice. Has anyone else had a machine fail right in the middle of a big project and how did you get through it without losing your mind?
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thomas_roberts1d ago
Oh man, that's BRUTAL. Having a machine die right in the middle of a project like that is the worst feeling, especially when you've already put all that prep work in. I had my old Janome lock up completely about three years ago when I was sewing a Halloween costume for my kid, and I ended up finishing the whole thing by hand because I just couldn't afford a new machine right then. Hand winding bobbins for floral panels sounds like a special kind of torture, I don't know how you lasted four days without throwing the whole machine out a window. Machines always seem to choose the absolute WORST time to break down, don't they?
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the_mia22h ago
The worst possible time" nails it, @thomas_roberts. I read somewhere that sewing machines have a mean streak, and I honestly believe it. I was just telling a buddy how my brother's truck's alternator gave out on the way to pick up lumber for a fence job, and it's the same kind of bad luck. Four days of hand winding bobbins is basically a test of your soul, I think I would have lost it way before that.
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