GRRR - Sewing Machine From Hell (Warning: Venting)

[Kiza]

So. I'm stage managing this show that opens this weekend. One actor can't find a single thing in the costume closet that will work for her costume and the director knows I sew. We get together, plan something fabulous and go buy fabric. She's jazzed, I'm jazzed.

I've been sewing quite a bit the past couple of weeks, my sewing machines have been tuned up and are working beautifully, everything I've put together has worked out better than I expected. Except for this dress.

How is it that the machines know when you're working on a deadline? Everything else I've made has been just because I felt like it. But when I get to putting together something with a deadline that other people are actually going to see - my serger explodes. Right in the middle of a seam. About two hours before I have to leave the house the night of our publicity shots and before I've attached the sleeves.

There is a happy ending here. The pictures were pushed back, I skipped rehearsal to play with the machine - which I still haven't entirely fixed - and I got the dress put together. The actor loves it, the director loves it and several people from our preview audience stopped me to compliment the dress. But my question here is HOW DOES THE SEWING MACHINE KNOW?!?

Grrr.

Kiza

[jmthane]

But my question here is HOW DOES THE SEWING MACHINE KNOW?!?

<voice="Rod Serling">We present a lady with a question - a question that can only be answered in....

THE TWILIGHT ZONE."</voice>

[Nevada]

Gremlins

[Kiza]

Gremlins

:D I like to think that's what the cat hunted down under the table . . .

[Tempest_Gypsy]

They know because there is a secret psychic network of machines out there. They hear you talking somewhere else and porject it to all of the other machines you might possibly encounter so they can make your life harder. It's evidince that we really are heading towards the situation in "The Matrix!"
Oh, and Kiza, I had a thought for your sig line. Everything you post about garb, sewing and the like is hysterical...because its so true. How about 'It's funny because it's true."?

[moira]

its gonna happen to me tonight... i have to go make skirts now and my machines gonna freak...

moira

[Isabelle Warwicke]

NONONONONONO!!! the machines cannot revolt! I am ::this:: close to finishing a whole set of garb for a friend of mine. I have been working on it for two staright days. Her first ever ( and my first shot at this style of garb.) Bodice made out of an amazing hunter green brocade, cotton chemise, satin blend underskirt and same green brocade split over-skirt with an absolutly gorgeous waistband. All I have to do is hem the two skirts and pound in the frelling grommets. If my machine goes kaputie...I will totally blame this thread. I hope my computer and sewing machine don't talk...I keep them in separate rooms.

It's hard to sew with crossed fingers.

[Kiza]

Oh, and Kiza, I had a thought for your sig line. Everything you post about garb, sewing and the like is hysterical...because its so true. How about 'It's funny because it's true."?

Oh my gosh - I say that ALL THE TIME (to the point of annoyance, probably) and it never even occured to me to put it in the sig line. (What was I thinking?) Great idea - I'm gonna do it!

Oh, and Isabelle - I am SO SORRY that your sewing machine is going to die on you now. (Hmm. My computer and sewing machine are in the same room. Maybe that's my problem.) I take responsibility - although I'd like to blame everything crappy that's happened this week on the "Scottish play incident" that happened at the theatre last weekend. Bad, bad, bad.

Kiza

[Jeannie Fitzgerald]

Come now, lasses, sure an everyone knows 'tis the wee leprechauns raisin' a ruction with thy machines!

I'm worried. My machine and my computer share a desk. Hmmm...they weren't that close together yesterday... ACK!

Lady Fitzgerald
#758
The Wicked Wench of the West

[Isabella]

Trick the machine, buy another one and taunt it. I went to the Goodwill and got a great 1980's model White Machine with all the bells and whistles for 10.00, with the manual. I was dang stoaked! Came with mucho feet!

I had an old Dressmaker sewing machine late 70's model that I was using, and as soon as I brought home the new machine, the old one started working right as rain.

So maybe, JUST maybe, you get a dud, and leave it in plain site of the old one, and it'll smarten up a bit, and stop drivin' you nuts on a deadline. ;)

Pinay