I have heard of “guilt by association.” After today, I believe attitude by association is also possible. Since the time my babies were crawling on the floor of our farm home, the Sears Roebuck sewing machine took whatever thread I fed it. I think since it has sat next to the Bernina it has gotten uppity. I had two perfectly good polyester spools of thread. One to use in the bobbin and one for the top thread. The sewing machine bucked from the first stitch. I made sure both top and bottom were threaded correctly. I turned off the light on the Sears and decided that maybe I would just see what the weather was doing.
I did shovel a path for Dennis to get from the back door to the garage so he could check on his livestock . . . a tank of Koi and his four cats. It was like shoveling wet cement. The scooper had to be knocked on a cleared area to get the snow to fall off of it. When Dennis went out he took the scooper with him to be able to get back into the house without getting his slippers and the bottoms of his PJs full of snow. Yes, I did say slippers and PJs. All the media have labeled our area as being in the bull’s eye of the most snowfall during today and over the evening. The wind is doing quite the number out there. We will see if the 16″ forecast is going to be correct.
I came in from getting some fresh air and decided again to crank up the Sears sewing machine. The Bernina was in the middle of an embroidery task and the Sears was to be my backup today. Thinking about it, I got out a new spool of polyester thread and filled the bobbin first with it and then threaded the top part from the same spool. The early 1960s machine sewed like a top. I had gotten out a spool of top notch quality thread as I couldn’t afford any mishaps once the stitching started. It was a spool of Guterman, a German brand. Fancy schmancy . . . I think my Sears Roebuck has coped an attitude while sharing space with the Bernina. No more feeding it the leftover thread from decades ago. It was worth it to have smooth sailing.