Defeated by a diagram
My relaunch of Making Fridays started off so well. I headed off some appointments, and got to work on some much-needed sorting and tidying – usually something I have to accomplish before I can sit down and really work. With tidying done, and second cup of coffee dispatched, I sat down at the overlocker to thread it so I could start work on a mad patchy thing with tea towel offcuts. Of course, anyone who has threaded an overlocker knows that it was designed by an evil person with tweezers for fingers and eyeballs made of lightbulbs.
The thread snapped, so I threaded it again. And again. And again. And again. And… I swear I followed the diagram the way I always do, but eventually, my good humour wore through and it was back to tidying for me.
So despite all the kind encouragement from all of you following my post on Wednesday, this Making Friday has been a bit of a washout. Let’s hope, however, that the studio will remain sufficiently tidy all week so I can dive right in next friday. I may even have a new overlocker by then.
Happy weekend everyone.
louise @thirtyfive flowers
I watch with dread as the spools run down on my overlocker, knowing that I will have to rethread, truly the work of an evil soul….
Michelle | Cicada Studio
I’m serious. I’ve got tears in my eyes just reading this.
Thanks for the laugh! At least something good came from your experience.
skinnylaminx
🙂 Liked the idea of you also doing a Making Friday. Make it a date for next week?
Michelle | Cicada Studio
You’re on.
Athol
It may be hell but at least the threading diagram looks pretty. I thought that was a new design you had made when I first saw it.
arounna
sometimes it’s the effort that counts – looking forward to what you make next friday xx.
Paula
I know I shouldn’t laugh but…. :):):):):)
Vicki
Yikes, this looks like Std 6 geometry tests to me! Enough to reduce one to tears (or rage)…
helene magnusson
My overlocker acts just the sameway! Weird!
cecile
Damn. i missed the shop. i was in the area on friday, but had my baby in the car so didnt want to risk getting stuck in friday traffic. Will you be selling the fabric online? XC
Suzanne
I can totally sympathise with your overlocker frustrations having spent a very frustrating Sunday afternoon re-threading my overlocker…..great when they work, v v frustrating when you need to change threads!
skinnylaminx
He he. The overlocker frustrations reverberate around the globe!
Emma
te he, I agree with Athol – I thought it was a photo of groovy graphics too! My overlocker scares the h£ll out of me – not used it since it was serviced and repaired over 2 years ago – and once it is running the quantity of thread it eats is frightening!
skinnylaminx
Oy, talk about thread chomping. I finally managed to get it up and running, and have been overlocking away, but now it’s nearly time to rethread. I could weep!
suzanne
it wouldn’t by any chance be a Janome Finesse 234D??
I have acquired one, but no manual 🙁
Kind of like getting a space ship without anyone to show you how it works!? Cripes
skinnylaminx
Hi Suzanne It’s not a Janome Finesse – it’s something else (can’t remember), but came with a problematic “manual”, as it’s on video, and nobody has a video player any more! Impossible!
el
Hi,
I relate to your woes. Try tieing the old cotton to the new and make the knot as small as possible .It sometimes works