It was a good and busy day for our family. Here's a quick update before I head off to dream-land...
My dad was able to haul two loads of hay home and loaded grain for a farmer down by Strasburg besides.
This afternoon, Mother had a booth for her business at the Napoleon benefit get-together (the money went to the nursing home) and came home with an angel food cake that a friend had given her. :)
The boys helped me get the house back in some kind of order and we played a few of the new games we got from Grandma yesterday. Andrew also tried to get Mom's sewing machine working so I could try it to see if it sews 4 layers of fabric and 2 layers of Velcro together any better than my machine does, but it didn't... Thankfully, I have all the long pieces of Velcro sewn on and just have the ends to finish now. ........And I've only broken one needle!
4 comments:
Do you have a bigger needle that you could use in the sewing machine? And does your machine allow you to run it by hand (with a side wheel)? Sometimes taking it a little slower helps the machine punch through thick fabric.
Have a blessed day!
Cora
P.S. I saw a comment you left on Anna's (Damsel in Distress) blog and decided to come meet this other Cora. :)
Hello Cora!
Glad to meet you (even if your real name isn't Cora, I'm glad to know you like the name so much that you choose it as your pen-name. :) )
My mom did bring home some large-holed needles last Wednesday, but it was one of those that I broke! My machine does have a side wheel and I've tried using that... It works for a while, and then one of the plys of the thread would break and I'd have to rethread again. I'm using very heavy thread--designed for apholstery and such, so I'm surprised actually that it's giving me such troubles... I've adjusted the thread tension way down too. Have any other suggestions? :)
Cora is my middle name, but I've used it as a pen name/screen name/username so many times that it might as well be my first name. I'd answer to it just as quick as my first name! ;-)
Hurm... That would be when I'd break out a hand needle and do it that way. I'm assuming you were using a new needle, so the tearing of thread has to be the material's fault. Usually I would blame an old needle with a snag in the eye.
If you hand sew it (I just realized I don't know what you're making!), you might run bees wax down the thread to make it stronger and slip through the fabric better. I don't know if you should put wax on thread for a machine. Sounds like it'd turn into an icky mess.
I hope somethin' works for ya! :-)
Cora
awww, you have a bassett hound too???? Or am I mistaken???
:-)
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