{"id":158,"date":"2007-09-22T17:37:09","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/sewing-machine-blues\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:04:24","slug":"sewing-machine-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/sewing-machine-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"sewing machine blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel sad and stupid. A little over a year ago, I spent $100 and bought a proper sewing machine. It was a Singer, so I thought it would be a good investment and would last me for a decade or two.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, it went wrong. The needle jammed down inside the machine and wouldn&#8217;t come up again. When I took it to the repair centre (luckily it was under warranty) the repairman said that the timing was off and Singer didn&#8217;t bother to tune them properly in the factory before selling them! He fixed it up, and it worked perfectly after that.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/sewingmachine.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to today&#8230; I finally have a chance to start on a new sewing project, and sit down at the machine. <strong>Clunk<\/strong>. I know that noise. It&#8217;s the timing again. The needle either jams in the down position, or goes through the fabric and then hits something and gets stopped before it gets to the bottom.<\/p>\n<p> Of course, the warranty has now expired, and the repair centre tell me it&#8217;s going to cost about $40 to fix. But they also warned me that the machine is not a very good one and that whenever I try to sew anything heavy (jeans etc) it&#8217;s liable to happen again..!<\/p>\n<p>So now what do I do? Spend the $40 and hope it lasts a while longer before it breaks again? Or give up on it and have to spend even more money for yet another new machine? I think I&#8217;m going to have to bite the bullet and go for a new one, but I&#8217;m going to do a <strong>lot<\/strong> of research this time before handing any money over.<\/p>\n<p>And my project? Looks like I&#8217;ll have to put that on hold until I can find a sewing machine that works \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel sad and stupid. A little over a year ago, I spent $100 and bought a proper sewing machine. It was a Singer, so I thought it would be a good investment and would last me for a decade or two. Within days, it went wrong. The needle jammed down inside the machine and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetjune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}