Mock safety stitch, not so safe...

It is never good when a student comes up to you and says "That serger isn't stitching, the bobbin is wound and I don't know what is wrong with it." So a machine with loopers doesn't have a bobbin but it looks like it does when thread gets wrapped around the inter workings of a machine like so:

Are you serious? People's stupidity has increased exponentially in the last few weeks due to fashion shows and what not when wannabe designers think they know how to sew but instead break machines. If you don't know how to use a machine ask someone. This was about half the thread I had to cut out, a great 40 minutes I spent taking it all out:

Shag rugs and a 516 with a walking foot...

Well I believe it was 3 years ago a student tried to finish off the edges of her shag bathroom rug with a 516 machine with a walking foot. Well ever since then it hasn't worked all that great. You would have to force the fabric towards the beginning of the stitching for it not to get bunched up and rip your fabric.

Then I found this one morning and decided I needed to take apart the walking foot and see what was going on. With a decent amount of struggle I got the presser foot and walking foot. Found out the throat plate was slightly bent upward, so I had to fix that and inside the presser foot which had a lot of nylon fibers that caused the back end of it to add too much pressure to the beginning of the stitches. Just cough up $10-$20 and buy a new rug.

March Monday Madness!

Pretty blown away today at 10:15am on a Monday morning and saw these beauties. Machines unthreaded and left unthreaded, some broken, and one threaded completely wrong. Given the age range of 19-24, their small motor skills should be up to par to simply thread a needle or take a screw driver and replace a needle.

 Yes I do realize I ask too much for someone to thread a double needle lock stitch machine. It seems like the concept of threading from the inner side of the needle to the outer side blows people's minds.

This made me smile a little bit today.

515 unthreaded and jammed with thread, I know exactly who did it too. Heads will roll.

Wadded up thread in a tension disc, love it!

Another wadded up tension disc debacle.

Broken quick release presser foot...awesome.

Broken needle, also do you really need a line of blue tape to show you where 1/2" is on the throat plate? It is engraved on there.