A minor complaint

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So... I totally love my new sewing machine EXCEPT for one small detail.

The simulated serging modes just burn through thread (as serging does) and the machine won't tension correctly to take a serger spindle. I tried it but it's just too heavy (unless there's some add-on for the machine to take serger cones. I should look that up.

Anyhow... Serger thread in 3000 or 6000 meter spindles is FAR cheaper than buying 200M spools for sewing machines so... I got clever. Fortunately, I had some old thread from the 70s on styrofoam spools (I actually have some that's on wood spools and is pre-WWI for that matter) But anyhow... I cut the end of a styrofoam spool so it'd fit inside the serger spindle. Then stuck it on my 16MM film splicer and put an empty spool on the other side. With a bobbin as a guide to move the thread back and forth, I then wound serger thread off the spindle onto the empty spool. Woot! Success! (After a couple hours of frustration playing with tension and other ideas to use the spindle directly)

$5 for 3000M of thread beats the pants off of $4 for 200M of thread. :)

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The wistfulness of an old man with only a quarter of the waiting time!

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My sister is in college with the current art major of "fibers" Which means she sews a lot of stuff, and I'm sure she'd love these posts of yours, if only there was a way to show them to her without revealing my social network of freaks to her. Oh, I already told her I kissed a beautiful girl who was once a boy, and who I'm crestfallen I may just never see again, on my trip to SF. It seemed to cheer her up, it was a moment. She'd just been dumped by another boyfriend, and rather than taking the bitter rout of telling her that I'd never had a boyfriend or a girlfriend to be dumped by in the first place I tried to dazzle her with a tale of something slightly exotic and mildly tragic to make her problems seem petty by comparison. She's wonderful, I don't know why I never mention her in my livejournal. I'm fairly proud of having comforted her in that moment, and my prediction to her then that she will have the pick of the boys in her University is in fact coming quite predictably true because she's pretty and brainy and assertive.