Yesterday ended upward beingness to a greater extent than of a run-around 24-hour interval than anticipated. While I was getting my pilus cut, I got a message that Big Bertha was ready to move picked up. I needed to brand a halt at a specialty grocery along the way, too thus I headed across town to selection upward my sewing machine. When I got her dwelling identify too laid her up, she was looking pretty good. No mistake code on the screen, too the light-green lite there, simply left of centre indicated she was raring to go.
So I got to function sewing together the strips for the Nov Rainbow Jubilee blocks. I didn't actually aspect to complete them, but at that spot they are. I'll move starting on the dark too white ones...today, hopefully.
While I was sewing, I noticed the machine was making a novel racket non heard previously. It's non that I'd never heard it, but it was happening every fourth dimension I stopped sewing too thus started upward again. It was a mechanical noise...like a leap "spronging" (my give-and-take for the noise), every fourth dimension the feed dogs re-engaged. I watched carefully equally I took the initiative of all stitches each time, tried pulling out too reinserting the knee articulation elevator lever, turning the manus crank, cleaning nether the stitch plate (although it was perfectly build clean having simply come upward from service), rethreading the machine, removing the bobbin case...nothing made whatever difference. It bothered my ears every fourth dimension it happened, which was at the showtime of every business of stitching.
When Mike got home, I asked him to come upward downstairs too listen. He's pretty skillful amongst mechanical things, too thus I idea he mightiness fifty-fifty move able to produce it. When I turned the machine on (third fourth dimension since I got it home), the mistake code reappeared. PUCK!!! Only, I was form of glad it happened thus fast because this is all fresh inwards everybody's heed now. I called the store at nowadays too told them I desire the circuit board replaced, too no to a greater extent than pucking around. So that's what volition happen. I've turned the machine on too off v to a greater extent than times since then, too I'm non able to clear the code. I guess Pfelicity volition move dorsum inwards service faster than y'all tin nation "Bob's your uncle." The ane positive inwards all of this is that it's no longer an intermittent problem, which is the most exasperating kind. Now it's consistent too persistent, too simply peradventure it'll instruct fixed.
So that happened.
The exclusively other sewing-related affair I did yesterday was to instruct a start on Block half dozen of Friendship's Garden. My initiative of all chore on a novel block is to role upward the lilliputian leftover bits from the concluding fourth dimension I worked on it.
Now my lilliputian floss bobbins are all bully too tidy, too I tin start fresh amongst fresh floss. It's an OCD thing, if y'all must know.
Our temperatures haven't dipped below freezing yet, but it is decidedly cooler than it has been. Neither kitty is beating a path to the door this morning. Sadie is contentedly tucked into her quilt.
Smitty is on his pole side past times side to the window. He isn't fifty-fifty looking out the window, patently believing it's also mutual coldness fifty-fifty to shape his gaze outside.
I'll move getting my monthly pedicure this morning, too thus I'll move heading for home. I'm hoping at that spot volition move plenty fourth dimension left inwards the 24-hour interval to instruct started on those dark too white strips for the Rainbow Jubilee blocks. When those are finished, I'll move biting the bullet too starting to quilt Wind inwards the Whiskers. I've been dragging my feet for well-nigh ii years on that quilt. Time to instruct it finished too off my mind. It won't move finished until side past times side month, but in ane lawsuit I instruct started on something, I tin ordinarily follow through to the bitter end.
There is approximately canning inwards my time to come too. I'm thinking this weekend, I'll move trying a novel recipe for cranberry pepper jam. Also, I'll move pickling approximately beets too approximately brussels sprouts. There's never a shortage of things to do.