I got a new sewing machine for my birthday.
It is a Heavy Duty Singer that can sew thick and fast.
My new Bernina 780 is not up to sewing thick layers of fabric, something I have had to accept after giving away my 40-year-old Bernina 830 Record which could handle everything I gave it.
The Bernina 830 Record is known as a workhorse. I did 4 years of City and Guilds courses on this simple, non-computerised machine.
Ron has been getting a hard time from his buddies about giving me a machine so I can once again do canvas repairs on his boat, something I couldn't do after I got the Bernina 780. This Singer can sew 3 thicknesses of canvas but I haven't tested it to its needle breaking limits yet.
It comes with a needle threader, a thread cutter, 18 built-in stitches, 2 different buttonholes, can be threaded for a twin needle and the feed dogs can be dropped for free motion work.
All this for $149!
I won't tell you how much this baby cost. It was a graduation present after I completed a BA (Hons) Embroidered Textiles.
The Bernina 780 is an amazing machine but it does have some problems the company has not fixed and they have stopped making this model. It is so highly computerised it self-corrects the tension even when I want a loopy stitch. I can't work cable stitch using thick threads in the bobbin because it self-corrects.
My new birthday Singer can make loopy stitches and it sews fast.
40 meters of lightweight fabric just washed.
I bought this Indian, handwoven cotton cloth from a favourite shop, Knotty by Nature Fibres, here in Victoria.
It is a jacquard woven, light-weight, narrow cloth that I think would qualify as Indian khadi cloth.
I ironed the 40 metres while still damp and while binge-watching Vikings.
At this stage, I have no idea what I will do with 40 meters of fine white cloth. It is all washed, ironed, folded and put away in the Green Shed to wait out the 'Percolation' stage.
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