Cover stitch...

Once again we are starting to teach new students to use the cover stitch machines and once again one particular person keeps breaking them. I came in one morning and saw 3 of these signs under the presser feet of 3 cover stitch machines:

Well just so you know a cover stitch does not have a bobbin it in fact has a looper. And once I slid back the cover of the machines I found thread wadded up and wrapped around the inner workings like so:

A good 2 hours spent taking a razor to all that thread. After all the machines were rethreaded and sewing properly, I went to class and came back to see the graduate student on the machine with a tool box next to her. She managed to put it out of working order within 55 minutes. After explaining to her what exactly she needs to do when sewing with it she once again put a different machine out of working order. I have hit the tipping point, I have been tried my hardest to tolerate her and teach her but if she doesn't wish to learn I wont waste my time. There may be a few pictures of her crying in the near future. 

Though I'm younger than you...

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know 

I can see through your masks.

Little Bob Dylan reference for you all. This goes back to the higher up people who work in their office and desk and think they know how to fix machines and end up doing more harm than good like so:

I have seen this too much, and it doesn't have to get this bad until someone says "Hey, this isn't stitching right." This was a chain reaction to this lovely 406 bottom cover stitch, one of the needles broke and was replaced. When someone tried to sew with it the looper skipped stitches due to the fact that the needle wasn't positioned perfectly straight and that it wasn't in the most up right position. So the brilliant mind who put the needle in incorrectly decided there was a tension issue and instead of changing the tension she decided to wrap the thread around a tension disk 3 times...Which led her to thing that you could sew with out any fabric under the needles like a chain stitch and we see the product of her destruction above. And that is why I started this post with the song "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan, and I quickly corrected her mistake and that machine is running better than ever.