First of all, as I told you before, I've been helping designer friend M get her collection ready for not one, but two important event. The second one of those was a big succes (for this very small eco-brand) and the fall-out of it has kept us busy ever since. Tomorrow, I'll take some pictures to add the new looks to her website. We hope to keep people interested and hopefully, this will allow us to actually make some money for all our hard work.
Secondly, I had a small asignment of my own, resizing two vintage dresses (one of them only needed a new, shorter hemline). Working on that led to the third, sad reason...
My sewing machine broke down. My beautiful, expensive, high-tech sewing machine which I've only own since the end of May suddendly had a problem. Whether turning automatically, or by hand, the needle wouldn't go down to it's lowest position. None of the usual causes were there. No bent needle, no tangled thread. I took it to the shop and the repair guy agreed with me that this was all very strange... That was last Wednesday. The machine had to stay there, so hopefully they would be able to find out what was wrong with it and repair that. If not, it will have to be sent back to the factory. In Taiwan.
(did I mention before how I really need my sewing machine? Not just for my peace of mind but also because right now, it's my only way of making any kind of income.)
Of course, M is happy to let me do my sewing at her place if necessary and my machine is still well with in its garanteed time, so everything should work out in the end.
For the time being, when I not working, I'm drafting patterns, doing a bit of knitting, tell myself I really should work on making a website, read (I found some great fashion history books at the library), watch DVD's (Tudors and DS 9, what does that make me? ;), and somehow buy a lot more at the thrift stalls than usual.
Check back later this week for pictures of my thrifting adventures and a lot more sewing, fashion and clothes related rambling.
I understand your despair... I had to leave my sewing machine for service a couple of weeks ago (and I bought it in my parent's home-town way up north, where there's a very skilled repair-man, so I chose to hand it to them to leave it there = long time apart) and I was SO HAPPY that the 2:nd hand value of used machines is so low that I hadn't bothered to sell my old one... it really rescued me! And I love sewing on it now. I must make use of all its pretty decoration-seams somehow, so that I will use it more (my newer one is just too much more efficient to not use when I can).
ReplyDeleteI hope your machine is back in business and working well now!