Up and Running

It's amazing what some oil will do.  The 99 had been running along, but I'm sure the gears were as dry as bones (no oil in 15 years).  I picked up some oil over the weekend.  It's a quiet machine and now it runs even quieter.

I was perhaps a bit too enthusiastic at applying the oil?  I must have gotten some on the bobbin winder's contact wheel, so it kept slipping.  Took a few minutes to figure out what I'd done wrong.  The bobbin had wound perfectly just the other day.  I can't believe I've already run through a full bobbin of thread on this machine.

My regular sewing machine is due back tomorrow.  Yay!  The Key West quilt is on hold until it returns.  In the meantime I worked on some of the selvage triangles and sewed together some crumbs.  I found out the 99 and my 714 both take the same bobbin.  That's cool - all of my wound bobbins can go in either machine.  So I loaded up the colored thread and finished off some hexies as well.

Sunday night I was rushing to finish my sewing so Rob and I could watch TV together.  He commented:  since the new machine was portable, I could haul it into the living room.  Ooh.  TV and sewing.  That could be a dangerous combination.  I usually just listen to whatever he has on as I sew.

My pile of string triangles is quite impressive - just under 100 blocks.  I figure 20-40 more would give me enough for a lap-sized quilt.  I have no ideal what I'll do with it - but that's when I'll stitch them together.  I have 75 hexies.  I need to decide what I'm making with them, so I can start sewing them together.

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