Sewing Machine Blues

I know exactly how you feel. Sewing machines hate me too and as soon as I touch one something goes wrong. I am also making a quilt. At first everything was great. I embroidered the squares to make a history quilt for my little granddaughter. The squares were done in red work and each square depicted a Canadian theme. The log cabin, the Canada Goose, a polar bear, a groundhog, an elk and historical figures, Queen Victoria, the gold miner, the railroad worker etc. Well the trouble started when I sewed the square together, they did not match exactly and it looked awful. So a neighbor who is a seamstress fitted them together for me and now the top was done. It looked great. Now I bought the batten and backing and basted them together. I went to a creative festival and some ladies from the Quilting Guild were there and showed me how to hand quilt the three pieces together. Trouble was I had no quilting frame and it did not work out. So I undid what I had done and took out the evil sewing machine who gave me the evil eye. I could sew a straight line but no matter how much I basted and pinned the materiel it kept bunching and the underside of the quilt got all bubbly instead of flat. Then I undid it all and wanted to start again but all of a sudden the machine did not thread properly anymore. I got so frustrated and just rolled the whole thing up and put it away. Then a friend from out of town came to visit and demanded to see the quilt since she had given me the ideas and a booklet to trace Canadian images. She looked at it and told me I had to buy a quilting foot to stop the bunching. I said no way I am not going to do this anymore. She then said since it was straight lines she would do it. So I sat until 2 a.m. to undo all the seams again. She took it away the next day.She said she would get to it at the end of January. Hope you have better luck. Thank you listening to my tale of woe.

im like that also i dont know how to use the sewing machine i prefer hand sewing!!if only somebody could teach me do the sewing lol!!since i dont know how to use it i use crocheting as means of making window curtains now at present i have two sets of it! so tiring but at the same time enjoyable after seeing the finished product..