To honor Earth Hour last night, we turned off all the lights at home from 8:30-9:30 p.m. (OK, we cheated and left one on so the clumsy pregnant woman wouldn't trip and fall), and that's during dinner when we had Tube Dog and his human over.
We were so proud of our moment of tribute to the environment, but were immediately disappointed when we looked out the window (where we can see a good part of the city we live in) and saw that we're pretty much the only one (except for the Pixar campus) who turned their lights off... Boo...
But we did have a pseudo-romantic 3-people/2-dog candlelit dinner, and I have to say the peacefulness of it was quite nice.
On a completely separate note, an update on my sewing endeavors. After much spring cleaning, I've finally cleaned up my craft area and was able to bring out my machine again to see if it's still functioning (or jamming like it was on my last project).
Well, surprise surprise, with some adjustments to thread tension, it seemed to be sewing just fine with just an occasional loose stitch (see arrows). Oh and the notation is just the machine settings I've changed so I can keep track of whatadjustments I've made:
But of course when I thought everything's fine, trouble started rearing its ugly head...
All of a sudden, there were more and more loose and kinked up stitches, so with the help of Picasso's mommy (another sewing maven), we adjusted the tension and the stitch settings, re-threaded everything, checked the bobbin, cleaned off all the lint and dust, lubricated the moving parts, even changed the needle, and it only got worse... Just look at those super loosy-goosy stitches near the bottom in the photo above (and below, showing the reverse, bobbin thread in red):
At some point the machine completely jammed and stopped moving all together. Arrggghh.....
I can't think of anything else to do except to bring it back to the Viking/Huskvarna center when I got it from. It's still under warranty, hope they can fix it so I can start sewing soon! And any other suggestions are most welcome!
Oh, and by the way, speaking of Picasso's mommy's sewing talent, she totally surprised me today with this super cute knotted front top that she sewed:
And you know what's even more impressive? She didn't even measure me, and it fits like a glove! Which is especially hard these days when I seem to be growing by the minute...
Cheers to all the sewing mavens of the world!
