Thursday, August 30, 2012

A Very Welcome Addition

 I have a very welcome addition to the team here at Quilt Central- I bought an industrial sewing machine. It's a re-conditioned one and runs very quietly. I have killed 2 domestic sewing machines by sewing thousands of donation quilts and QAYG quilts on them and as I was working so many shifts I decided to try to find an industrial sewing machine which just does straight stitch but with a strong motor.
 As you can see the motor is much larger than my domestic machines. I put a QAYG quilt together this afternoon once we got it all set up and it sews through the thick batting like a dream. I had been spending a lot of time trimming the batting from the seam edges of the QAYG blocks before I joined them as my machine was struggling to sew them, so it will save me lots of time which I can spend on finishing off some of my UFOs. The seller told me that I will hardly ever have to change the needles, and he was very surprised to hear that if I changed my sewing machine needles every 8 hours of sewing then I would be using one a day. It self winds bobbins while I'm sewing and does back stitching and cuts the thread.
  It's a dream to use and will be a much used machine which has meant that my neck and shoulders aren;t suffering at all tongiht, from trying to push the fabric through my other machine.
I'm a very happy quilter tonight and will have some finished quilts to show you tomorrow.
Hugs, Jan Mac

7 comments:

Lynne said...

Wow! Sounds wonderful; just what you need!

Maria said...

have fun sewing many many quilts on your new machine......

Sunna Reyr said...

Big congratulation from Iceland, Toyota machines are such a strong workhorses. I was given an old small one ( a very simple one) a few years back and wow, the thing it can do and without efforts. It's amazing, mending farming overalls and winter overalls is a piece of cake now and then it dances trough finer fabrics (silk even) without a hitch.

And the sound she makes, reminds me of the old foot pedaled sewing machine at the farm where I spent the summers when I was a kid. Totally nostalgic.

Jan Mac said...

Thanks for all the kind comments ladies. A big hi to Sunna in Iceland. I loved your beautiful country when I visited many years ago and was surprised to see your comments from the other side of the world. The net has made the world a much smaller and friendlier place. Thanks for stopping by everyone.
Hugs Jan Mac

Ulla said...

Congratulations on the new machine! I hope it will serve you for many years and ease the fantastic work you do.

Jan Mac said...

Thanks Ulla. I'm happy with how easily it sews through all the thicknesses and is great for the bindings too.

Maria said...

Sounds wonderful Jan! The amount of sewing that you do it's amazing that you only wore out 2 domestic machines! lol So now you have the right machine for the job!