The date of our next Oh Sew Social is being moved out to April 2nd (yes, we’re technically skipping March). As always, join us and bring your textile and textile-adjacent projects, a desire to learn something new, or just strong opinions about the greatest sci-fi franchise and why it’s Star Trek.
I wanted to get the rescheduling info out ASAP but worry not – a terrible pun in the post title will return.
I plan to bring my leather stamps for tooling, so if you’d like to use them, just bring your own leather. Hope to see you there!
I have been fighting my schedule to make it to one of these for months, looks like I’ll have to miss yet again.
I sew one-off custom designs for things like specialized bike panniers. I’m always trying to attach straps or hardware, and include extra pockets in the design for padding or rigid sheets of stabilizer material. Would anyone in this group have advice about that kind of design work?
Hi Alan – it would be great to have you stop by when you get the chance!
Whether someone with the kind of experience you described will be in attendance is very much luck of the draw – sometimes the people who show up are mostly leatherworkers, other times we have those who work on garments, sometimes a bit of both. I suggest first posting in one of the Maker Talk sections and asking for advice there, and then making plans to meet up, either at the Social or on your own.
Also resurfacing this post as a reminder for everyone – see you on Thursday!
The finished cushions look great! Re: the yellow tag, it looks like a thread tension issue, I can’t tell if it’s the bobbin or upper thread in the photo. See page 30 of the manual for adjustment.
Thanks! It’s the top thread, we did take a look at it together with Branislav and Nick and tried different tensions and I tried rethreading several times to no avail. Then we switched to se600 and it worked great with the same settings. The needles were the same on both machines
Thanks for the info—I know @sarahmartin was just in textiles yesterday with a repairperson, she might have more info on the current state of each machine!
One of the embroidery machines has a self threading option. On the other embroidery machine the self threading piece is broken off. The repairman said it is a flimsy piece that someone will likely break off of the other machine. It is a $40 part, so it isn’t wildly expensive, however it is a finicky part, so there isn’t a reason to replace it. That machine works fine but will need to be threaded by hand. He repaired timing on one of the embroidery machines and both were in excellent working order on Thursday afternoon - However, these are machines that are easy to mess up and are finicky. His recommendation is to replace most of our sewing machines with higher quality machines that are easier to service and to learn on. If its not working correctly, my advice would be to discontinue using it. The more we mess with the settings on the machines, the more likely something is to become damaged.
