I saw an interesting edge of clouds on the way home from Mom’s and finally found a place with a clear view of it. When I first saw it, it seemed to be heading to something a little more turbulent but it was cool looking no matter what.
When I got home I worked on getting my serger back up and running. I’d been searching for the power cable/foot pedal and found it last night hiding with the other room TV wires… don’t ask. I don’t use this very often and it’s a wonder that anyone at all does. The threading is such that it requires a tweezers, there are two needles to thread and a couple arms that get threaded and well… a lot can go wrong. After a couple tries I unthreaded the whole thing and tried to figure out why even the thread wouldn’t come off the cones nicely. Turns out it must have the lift arm all the way up. And it helped to thread it one cone at a time starting at the right. Then of course the tension was atrocious.
The images of bad tension weren’t too helpful in the manual and then I realized that they were telling me to turn knob 1,2,3 or 4 one way or another when in fact those knobs had no numbers. Did they number in the same order as the order of the cones in threading? Of course not! So I stuck a bit of masking tape on each, and the number, being careful not to obscure the color dot that goes with the cone threading path. Still terrible. Finally I put up the pressure foot and carefully tugged each thread until it was clearly inside the tension disks.
Yes, that did the trick and the thing worked great at last. That was a lot of work to prepare for making two chair cushions so I went off to do my haiku and painting for the day and have some dinner.
