When I look at this machine, my palms become a little sweaty and my hands start to shake a little....another words I'm terrified of this little machine! A grown woman afraid of a sewing machine, who would have thought! It's kind of silly, I know! I should be afraid of lions, tigers, and bears! Oh, my!
Once I started my own blog and had the chance to look at others, I saw TONS of others making their own pillows, totes, carrying cases, and the list could go on and on! All of those blogs, inspired me to try sewing a pillow for my bed. I thought how simple would that be, right?!?!?
First, I needed to borrow my mama's sewing machine, and she dropped it off this past weekend. I didn't waste any time because on Monday I made my very 1st pillow....YAY:)
To begin, that's all my mom did was drop it off and said, "Here it is!' No instruction on how to thread the thread through or what of thread I even needed...yikes!!!! I don't think my mom knew that I needed a "For Dummies: How to Book" about a sewing machine. So, it totally wasn't her fault. Plus, my mama is a very buys woman:)
Anyways, I thought to myself, this will be cake trying to thread the thread through! I had absolutely NO clue how to even start. I have to tell you my background with a sewing machine and really, there isn't any background....double yikes!!!! I decided well I'll just give my mom a ring and ask her how I do this. Now, I don't know any vocabulary about a sewing machine at all! So, my mom was explaining, "Take the bobbit thread and feed it through...." I was lost at bobbit!!! What!?!? HuH?!?!
I was bound and determined, I could figure this small machine out! After all, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out! I looked online for the manual and luckily I found one...YAY...one step in the right direction! I was reading the manual and it said not only did I need one spool of thread, but 2...HUH?!?! You get the picture of how difficult it was for me to get the sewing machine ready such as: where do I put the thread, where was the gas pedal, how do I go backwards, and all that jazz! It serisoulsy took me about 1 hour and a half to figure this bad boy out, but I did, and all by myself:):) I was beeming from ear to ear when I did get it working. My advice, if this is your first time working with a sewing machine: a. ask someone to show you how to work it and b. after you figure out how to run it use a piece of scrap fabric to test it out:)