sewing machines

So I go out yesterday thinking I am going to spend about $100 or so on a no-nonsense sewing machine. I know I don’t “need” the bells + whistles, and as long as it can sew through about three layers of fabric, straight stitch, I’m good to go (afterall I have the industrial for when things get a little too thick, right?) Well I go out and I look at the little selection of sewing machines at Target and I think “well hmm, maybe I should just go ahead spend $300 and get this lower-end Europro slightly computerized sewing machine. “heck!” I think “I use this tool almost every single day, might as well go a little fancy, right??”

Tom of course had wandered off to the toy aisle to leave me to ponder and rationalize all alone. Don’t you know I come walking out of the aisle with the Europro sewing machine. When I first got it home I was excited to see that with a push of a button I could have it sew out words for me. Of course how often am I going to use that feature except maybe to type out phrases to tuck into toms shoes..or maybe sew into his sweatshirt when he’s not looking. Then I also noticed it has a no-pedal option! How can this be? I can’t even imagine trying to sew by pushing a start button, then using the same button to stop…weird, just really weird. My foot would be moving on its own out of habit. So my point is, the machine is fine + dandy…but I hate the reverse button, its a tiny button in the middle of a bunch of other buttons. When you push it, it sews so slowly back up no matter what you have the sewing speed set on, and no matter how hard you push the pedal. The other thing I don’t care for is the beeping everytime you do something it does not agree with (granted I could turn this off)

I am though debating about taking it back and exchanging it for a good old fashion machine where I can back stitch as fast as I can, and be able to easily push the back stitch button because it is not small + hidden among other buttons (that really bothers me) Then again—-it means no more printing out things like “i like poop”…..its a hard choice I tell ya!



In shop news this slightly larger sized tree stump is going to be added to the shop soon! There is someone that saw it at Renegade that may be buying it first, but if not it (and two others) will be added to the shop. I am also finishing up bananas, smores, and will have more donut kaychains very soon! Look for a big shop update hopefully by Friday.