Saturday, November 15, 2014
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Going Bye Bye
Hello everyone! This blog was an effort to keep us all in touch on a more regular basis, but that has not been as successful as many thought it would be. I will be deleting this blog on January 31st because of poor attendance.
Most of the people that contributed to blog or have any interest at all of staying in contact are on facebook. If you do not have a facebook account its really easy to set one up and you can visit it as often or as little as you like. Visit http://www.facebook.com/ and start the set up.
If you have no desire to set up a facebook account you can simply e-mail, write or call. If you choose to call, me at least, please know that after 20 years of answering the damn phone at Baer's it is NOT my preffered line of communication. So, if you should call me and don't get an answer try not to let your feelings be hurt. I will eventually call you back or who knows I might even answer.
Love to all,
Mark
Most of the people that contributed to blog or have any interest at all of staying in contact are on facebook. If you do not have a facebook account its really easy to set one up and you can visit it as often or as little as you like. Visit http://www.facebook.com/ and start the set up.
If you have no desire to set up a facebook account you can simply e-mail, write or call. If you choose to call, me at least, please know that after 20 years of answering the damn phone at Baer's it is NOT my preffered line of communication. So, if you should call me and don't get an answer try not to let your feelings be hurt. I will eventually call you back or who knows I might even answer.
Love to all,
Mark
Thursday, December 24, 2009
For the Holidays you can't beat Gnome sweet Gnome
Cross-posted from my e-mail...
N.
Good Yule and Merry Christmas!
Wes hael!
So I went down to Danville yesterday to pay a Yuletide visit to the girls at Wilderness Road Quilt Company, and, as I had missed my chance at Hallowe'en, I figured I may as well wear the gnome outfit. Not an elf outfit. I am NOT a Christmas Elf. I am a Yule Gnome.
Leslie and Tori were very happy with the bottle of Wild Turkey American Honey I had in my bag, but I think they were even happier to have a visit from the Yule Gnome, and Tori did her part to get me my fifteen minutes by posting a pic on their blog:
N.
Good Yule and Merry Christmas!
Wes hael!
So I went down to Danville yesterday to pay a Yuletide visit to the girls at Wilderness Road Quilt Company, and, as I had missed my chance at Hallowe'en, I figured I may as well wear the gnome outfit. Not an elf outfit. I am NOT a Christmas Elf. I am a Yule Gnome.
Leslie and Tori were very happy with the bottle of Wild Turkey American Honey I had in my bag, but I think they were even happier to have a visit from the Yule Gnome, and Tori did her part to get me my fifteen minutes by posting a pic on their blog:
Fig. 1: Chicks dig gnomes
That's Tori on the left and Leslie on the right, and if you're ever down Danville way, you should stop by and check out their awesome quilt shop, located in a lovely old commercial building in downtown Danville. They're fabulous chicas, and they have mad qwilting skilz. You can visit their web site here:
http://www.wrqcd.com/Welcome_to_Wilderness_Road_Quilt_Co.php
And here's a link to the blog:
http://twokygirls.blogspot.com/
Hokay, gotta get back to the Christmas Eve prep here in a few...
A Good Yule to all and sundry! Wes hael!!!
Thine,
N.
http://www.wrqcd.com/Welcome_to_Wilderness_Road_Quilt_Co.php
And here's a link to the blog:
http://twokygirls.blogspot.com/
Hokay, gotta get back to the Christmas Eve prep here in a few...
A Good Yule to all and sundry! Wes hael!!!
Thine,
N.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Waaaaa!!!!!
So I was working on this old Elna model 62 (the ElnaSuper!) this past weekend, and was just getting to the sewing-out stage when I realized that, as is often the case with this particular machine, the needle-position selector was stuck.
The mechanism consists of a circular cam that rotates on a metal shaft, and moves the needle bar mechanism from left to center to right as you rotate the cam by hand via an aperture on the front of the machine. If you don't change your needle position for twenty years, the old oil gets gummy and sticky and locks the cam in place wherever you last left it. Ideally, one should remove the pattern stitch camstack to allow access to the selector cam shaft, pull the selector cam, degrease it thoroughly, re-lubricate it, remount it, and reassemble the rest.
That would take a couple of hours and open up the possibility of having to deal with lots of fiddly adjustments that would almost certainly come back to haunt you.
So in practical terms, the best way to deal with a sticky needle position cam on your old Elna is to take your spray can of penetrating oil, lube the everliving frak out of it, and work it loose. It's usually necessary to start out with pliers, then move to fingers, periodically applying more penetrating oil, which will eventually collect in a fragrant yellow pool around the base of the machine. You work the cam left and right and left and right and back and forth and back and forth, and after anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour later, you'll have loosened it up to the point that your standard-issue Little Old Lady can shift her needle from left to right as she likes with a minimal expenditure of brute force.
So that's what I did, and I got it freed up satisfactorily.
And I'll have you know that I managed to rub two frakking enormous blisters on my thumbs while so doing, and I just wanted to take the opportunity to whine about it.
Yuh-huh, I earned my tune-up fee for that one, you betcha.
I'm recovering just fine, thanks. Band-Aids and neosporin are answering the situation nicely, and I expect to have full use of my tactile sense back in a few days. People deal with worse.
But I have to say that there's nothing like a couple of large, uncomfortable injuries on the pads of your thumbs to make you appreciate how much you really do use them.
Thumbs. They're great.
I think they're even better than these big brains we've got, and they might have even been a worthwhile trade-off for the prehensile tails.
Maybe.
Wes hael,
N.
The mechanism consists of a circular cam that rotates on a metal shaft, and moves the needle bar mechanism from left to center to right as you rotate the cam by hand via an aperture on the front of the machine. If you don't change your needle position for twenty years, the old oil gets gummy and sticky and locks the cam in place wherever you last left it. Ideally, one should remove the pattern stitch camstack to allow access to the selector cam shaft, pull the selector cam, degrease it thoroughly, re-lubricate it, remount it, and reassemble the rest.
That would take a couple of hours and open up the possibility of having to deal with lots of fiddly adjustments that would almost certainly come back to haunt you.
So in practical terms, the best way to deal with a sticky needle position cam on your old Elna is to take your spray can of penetrating oil, lube the everliving frak out of it, and work it loose. It's usually necessary to start out with pliers, then move to fingers, periodically applying more penetrating oil, which will eventually collect in a fragrant yellow pool around the base of the machine. You work the cam left and right and left and right and back and forth and back and forth, and after anywhere from thirty minutes to an hour later, you'll have loosened it up to the point that your standard-issue Little Old Lady can shift her needle from left to right as she likes with a minimal expenditure of brute force.
So that's what I did, and I got it freed up satisfactorily.
And I'll have you know that I managed to rub two frakking enormous blisters on my thumbs while so doing, and I just wanted to take the opportunity to whine about it.
Yuh-huh, I earned my tune-up fee for that one, you betcha.
I'm recovering just fine, thanks. Band-Aids and neosporin are answering the situation nicely, and I expect to have full use of my tactile sense back in a few days. People deal with worse.
But I have to say that there's nothing like a couple of large, uncomfortable injuries on the pads of your thumbs to make you appreciate how much you really do use them.
Thumbs. They're great.
I think they're even better than these big brains we've got, and they might have even been a worthwhile trade-off for the prehensile tails.
Maybe.
Wes hael,
N.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Monday, November 9, 2009
Sorry, but...
I'm afraid I won't be able to join you at the luncheon tomorrow...I was planning on going, but I picked up several machines today, and after considerable dithering and mulling things over, I've come to the conclusion that I just can't afford to burn the time or the gas right now. The real world intrudes on me now and again, I'm afraid.
Confound it all anyway, but it sucks being grown-up sometimes.
I'll miss seeing everybody, but we can catch up after New Year's, I reckon.
Have fun, and I'll seeya when I seeya...
Thine,
Nelson
Confound it all anyway, but it sucks being grown-up sometimes.
I'll miss seeing everybody, but we can catch up after New Year's, I reckon.
Have fun, and I'll seeya when I seeya...
Thine,
Nelson
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Luncheon News From Cherri
Hey Everyone,
Alas, I will not be able to go to the luncheon afterall. You will thank me later but we have had several visits from the pig this month. First myself (at least they said I had it), then Kim, then Codi and now Maddox. I thought it would be better not to go. Sorry to the Indiana people for not being able to carpool. Hope you all have a good time and will see everyone in January. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas but hope to talk to through the blog.
Cherri
Alas, I will not be able to go to the luncheon afterall. You will thank me later but we have had several visits from the pig this month. First myself (at least they said I had it), then Kim, then Codi and now Maddox. I thought it would be better not to go. Sorry to the Indiana people for not being able to carpool. Hope you all have a good time and will see everyone in January. Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas but hope to talk to through the blog.
Cherri
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