{"id":6413,"date":"2013-12-21T06:56:28","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2013-12-21T06:58:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T19:58:09","slug":"a-little-bit-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2013\/12\/21\/a-little-bit-sad\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit sad"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think my sewing machine has died. My lovely mechanical Bernina bought when I was about 15 and doing Textiles and Design at school. It’s a bit sad. It has lasted me nearly 25 years, but I don’t think it’s under warranty any more. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I realised that my daughter and I were probably going to spend the day each wanting to use my sewing machine. So I borrowed my sister’s, which is exactly the same machine, so that we could each sew. We never actually needed to use a machine concurrently during the day, so my sister’s machine is still waiting to be used.<\/p>\n

We each did quite a bit of sewing on our dresses, though I held The Reader up a bit by having to finally finish off re-drafting\/altering the skirt part of hers.<\/p>\n

Last night I was sitting on the lounge thinking, “I really should sew that seam,” but I couldn’t be bothered – it was extremely hot yesterday! My husband and I were each sitting on the other side of the room from the sewing machine. It was plugged in and turned on, but not being used.<\/p>\n

Suddenly, we heard sparking, sputtering noises from the machine. There was a horrible electric-y smell and smoke started coming out of the machine. I raced over to it, and unplugged it. I hurriedly took it outside so that if it was going to catch on fire, it wouldn’t do it in the house. When it had cooled and the smoke dissipated, I brought it back inside.<\/p>\n

I’m sad. It’s my wonderful Bernina 1030 machine. Hopefully it will be able to be fixed, though I’m not particularly hopeful. I’ll ring the machine-servicing fellow this morning, and hopefully he’ll be still able to take a look at it before Christmas – something I also doubt!<\/p>\n

I have already chosen the machine I’d like to replace it with, if I need to, simply because I had already chosen the machine I’d like to buy The Reader, further down the track. It’s the Bernina 1008, which is the current mechanical model. I don’t want any of this computerised stuff. I just want a good, serviceable, workhorse machine that will last me a lifetime. Like this one was supposed to. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Public schools in Australia generally have Bernina sewing machines (maybe private schools too, but I wouldn’t know!), so moving between the machine at home and the one at school was seamless (sorry!) for me when I was at school, and has been for The Reader as well. And it says a great deal about the quality of a machine for it to be the one chosen for use in schools, which is what the Bernina 1008 model is generally used for.<\/p>\n

Hopefully I’ll have an answer on the health of my machine before the end of the year, so that I can order a new one if I have to, at this year’s prices, rather than next year’s.<\/p>\n

\"sewing-machine\"<\/a>This was me using my beloved Bernina machine a few weeks ago at the gym. I had to adjust the tensioning straps of the new sprung floor as it was being installed, because we’d made some changes and they were now too long. By sewing them rather than cutting them, they would be completely recoverable when the gym wants to upgrade to a new floor one day, and sell the old one. Because the straps were already attached to one side of the floor, I had to position a table with my machine on the sprung floor to do the adjusting. I’ve never sewn on a sprung floor before – it was very bouncy! I’m glad to have a photo of me using my machine.<\/p>\n

My husband did point out to me that I’ve had many good years of service from my machine, which is quite true, but I did hope that it would last me forever. And you never know, it may still be able to be fixed. I’m glad I have my sister’s machine to use so we can keep sewing, but I don’t want to kill it as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think my sewing machine has died. My lovely mechanical Bernina bought when I was about 15 and doing Textiles and Design at school. It’s a bit sad. It has lasted me nearly 25 years, but I don’t think it’s under warranty any more. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Yesterday morning I realised that my daughter and I were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,14,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dressmaking","category-favourite-needlework-items","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}