Here is a friendly reminder to clean behind the plate of your sewing machine. Go, now, it will only take a minute or two! Unless of course you are like me and have to make a trip to the fabric store to get a screwdriver small enough and get distracted by the fabric...
How often do you maintenance your machine? What do you do? If you have a self oiling machine (like me) do you still oil it? Why doesn't my owners manual tell me all these things?!
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You're right, I need to do that - it's been a while! I use compressed air and pipe cleaners, sometimes tweezers when needed. And at least once a year, it goes to the shop for a tune-up! Just out of curiosity, do you ever find that you need to clean out your walking foot for it to make even stitches?
ReplyDeleteI've never cleaned out my walking foot but I have only ever used it a few times. Makes sense that it would need a cleaning too though.
ReplyDeletei try to clean out the lint at least every couple of weeks. I'm amazed at all the lint!!
ReplyDeleteI have no idea what I am even suppose to do with it, but I use it so little....my manual says nothing about upkeep
ReplyDeleteI should do better ~ thanks for the reminder. Oh and the book ~ maybe I should read that too (lol)
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