The safety device has been activated :(

I have completed so many more 

special baby items for the twins 

as I continued to obsessively nest

 since my last posting. 

BUT... with the obsessive sewing, 

and current use of fleece 

and flannel- my machine 

has been fighting back- 

even more than it had been. 

Honestly, I am beginning to fear she is terminal.

Her current status:

!!!The safety device has been activated. Is 

the thread tangled? Is the needle bent? !!!

Alas, No and No... 

I have replaced everything multiple times. 

I have disassembled and cleaned every accessible inch of my machine repeated times.

I got her in 2011. I'm not quite sure what the life span is on a modern machine? But she was in repair shop in December for 3 weeks and had a total tuneup.

Perhaps I should be surprised that I’ve managed to make a modern, overly-plastic domestic sewing machine last for almost 12 years! I’ve had to sew things I knew would abuse my poor little machine many times. And the past 2 years I have been on it for hours daily. (Not like covid allowed one much else to do!)

Still, I have had it serviced regularly, and been real good to it compared to machines of my past! So, I expected it to hold on, at least a bit longer...

But then came yesterday...the 6 hour bib day. 

In and out of the hoop with layers of flannel between the sticky stabilizer. And after bib 9... she just refused to go on :( 

I took her apart again 4 times today without any recovery... something I have always eventually been rewarded with in the past.

Finally, I had no choice but give up.

She is locked in place... On her screen of refusal :(

I no longer have a shop in town... so it will be a 1 hour drive to attempt repair. (& of course, there is the added frustration... I can't drive anymore).

I suppose my machine picked the most convenient time give up – I did get to finish both baptismal gowns... all their accompaniments. And then moved on to burp cloths and bibs.

Alas... one granddaughter shall have 3 less bibs... and thus will begin the start of one sibling getting more than the other.

... to be continued...

The bibs that did the final demise

And here is all I actually created with the embroidery!

And here are the Baptism gowns: