Showing posts with label sewing machine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sewing machine. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Having Your Stupid Moment in the Morning.......

eye photo: eye eye_pyramid.jpg...leaves the afternoon open for another one!

I had an appointment with my eye specialist this morning at 9:15.  I have a growth in my right eye he watches and measures yearly now.  It has not grown at all and we are comfortable with that.  It is different from scar tissue, which I will get to in a minute.  It is actually epithelium cells, but they have no changed in size or shape in the year and a half he has been following it.  So we are cool with that.

I also have a lazy eye, that nothing can be done with.  I originally had lasik in when they could no longer correct it with lenses.  It worked beautifully.  Then it got a cataract and a new fancy lens.

Now it is cloudy making it difficult to see anything now as it is getting worse.  I have scar tissue behind the new lens.  I say new, it has been 4 or 5 years now since the surgery.  And it necessitates a procedure called YAG.  I like the name, YAG.

They use a laser to burn the scar tissue.  And they go through the outside of the eye, and it doesn't get burned.......go figure.

So here's the stupid thing.

When my eyes were CLEAR, not dilated even, I wanted to take my machine to get cleaned and oiled by Alex who is near the eye doctor's office.  And I didn't want him to think I was a total slob so I opened up the bobbin area of the machine to clean it out before putting it in the car.  The walking foot was on, so......here is the stupid thing.......while the bobbin case was open, I took the walking foot off. 

screw photo: Screw 100_3804_500x410_1.jpgI drop the stupid little screw that holds the stupid foot on the stupid shaft.......yes.........down into the stupid bobbin area.  Whereupon it immediately finds one of those stupid little holes and fits its stupid self right down into the dark, scary, evil depths of the stupid machine.  (Everywhere you see the word stupid please insert the four letter word of your choice, I did.)

He said, in his thick Russian accent, not problem, lady.  I find it when I open machine.

the afternoon is still ahead of me........let's see what other stupid things I can do!





Monday, January 28, 2013

Design Wall Monday and My New Baby

You would think it would be a new pup, but no.  It is my new baby!

http://www.singerco.com/products/2127/9960-quantum-stylist

They had to special order her for me.  And I will get it in one week, with any luck, before I go to Retreat in Clinton, LA.  I am happy.

Square_125-f2d8c41eea26aafd18e2d217e557c003e4b8517fIt has 600 stitches, several alphabets, numbers and lots of decorative things.  It does have that curvy stitch I was lusting after.  And she was nearly half price, I fell into a deal.......it pays to know people!

It has a table and like 12 feet, and has arms and sews itself!  It is self threading, self bobbin-ing and self cleaning.

And it cooks dinner for you while you are sewing!

Charlene, my fabulous quilter
So while I wait for it to come in, I am working on Taking Names- the Shades of Grey Quilt, binding my Elephants, doing the quilting on Maylee's Baby Clothes Quilt and beginning to put stuff together for the Retreat in February.