New Love of my life! 5 Thread Overlock

Meet the newest love of my life! my dream come true! 5 thread overlock machine, which will set me free and let me experiment with variety of fabrics from velvet to knit and give a professional finish that i'have yearned for over the years!

Hubby dearest gifted me this a week before my b'day and must say this is the best gift i have ever received!

Still learning the ropes of threading it, as much as i love it, i am pretty scared of it too, given the complexity of its mechanism and its sheer size and dimensions! 

Today, i sat and made a diagram for threading, i hope this will help me out when i end up with cut up threads or exhausted threads and have to re-thread. 

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Attachable Sewing Machine Pin Cushion

After seeing this post on grossgrain, i wanted to make an attachable pin cushion to help me keep the pins easily accessible!

I measured the area beneath my stitch length dial and up to the base and drafted a mini pattern which has 2 retangles and 2 semi-ovals (In case anyone interested, shall do a mini-tute on how to make it)

Here is my  favourite 'new sewing accessory' !

after decking up my machine with new pin cushion and machine cover, i thought it surely needs a clean up and cleaned up the sewing machine table as well. So my darling sewing machine is clean and ready to work hard for me as ever!

Sewing Machine Revived ..... ****HAPPY*****

I am elated...ask  <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

My Sewing machine has been repaired and is back in action.... it was an eventful day as i approached a new service mechanic and he landed up at my house under half-an-hour of contacting him..(SURPRISE).... but joy was short lived as he knew only about industrial machines and slogged it out in my machine for more than hour and told me to take it to Singer Service Center......OMG... back to square one....

So i had consoled myself to go the center 2moro morning, as i have Navarathri festivities in evening...

Then out of the blue, the regular service guy called ( HE had been cooking stories of not being in town for past 4 days!).... and said he is on his way and will reach me at the earliest..... my joy knew no bounds... though it was 5:00 PM already and i was expecting guests to pour in from 6 PM (Remember Navarathri Day 5 today.....), i said YES.... my machine had to be revived, with it my sagging spirits....

He CAME, He SAW, He RESOLVED !!! !YAHOOOOOOOO.... I am on cloud nine and almost tipped and fell in my excitement as sprinted across the hallway to reach for a test fabric to test the fitness my darling sewing machine....

It worked.... oh the sweet sound of my machine.... how i missed it for the past 6 days including today....i did small test stitch session on it, when the first bunch of guests arrived.... oh i had to part with my Darling SM...for a while now.... i packed it off to my sewing room, paid the service guy's charge and guess what the problem was, the 'Carbon to my motor eroded' That is the Jargon that was told to me so i repeat...

When you have a look at the actual piece which was replaced, you will be outraged, atleast i did, just look at the size of it, it managed to stall my 5 days of sewing.... oh my...

Here is the Cuprit!

My heart skipped many a beat as my Darling was opened up and the 'surgery' was on.....