<p>Well, the overlock needle snapped off while I was using it yesterday. But everything else still works. </p>
<p><blockquote type="cite">On May 31, 2010 10:39 AM, "Rachel Lyra Hospodar" <<a href="mailto:rachel@fernworks.net">rachel@fernworks.net</a>> wrote:<br><br>He was using denim scraps from the trash and spent a minute talking to<br>
me about the seams in the denim and how to feed them through (sometimes<br>
the seams are too much for it, go VERY slowly and maybe pull from behind<br>
a tiny bit). I told him about the eyelet and he laughed. The timing<br>
gets knocked off whenever the machine goes through something crazy like<br>
that. if it wasn't that eyelet, it was lots of aggressive sewing of<br>
bulky seams or something. Basically the timing was totally screwed up.<br>
That just means that all the little moving bits aren't meeting each<br>
other at the right points in the cycle - so they can't engage and create<br>
the stitch. Some of this may have been caused by attempts to fix it -<br>
it is really tempting to fiddle with knobs and stuff when the machine's<br>
not working right.<br>
<p><font color="#500050"><br>Rachel McConnell wrote:<br>> Awesome, thanks so much! I'll totally give you some $$ for it. Did the<br>...</font></p></blockquote></p>