to be honest I think working on a sewing machine strains my eyes as much as being on a computer does. However, I am incentivized to remain alert and focused by keeping my fingers within stabbing distance of a needle making 60 stitches per minutes.
Me: oh boy I can’t wait to have a cool jacket
The hungry and voracious sewing machine: CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CHUNK-A CH
@luxlightly I wanna meet your junki deathmetal ultrafuck, they sound capable of sewing me a tool pouch.
It’s a Juki TL-2000Qi semi-industrial sewing machine and it can probably sew through solid steel.
It does exactly two things, a forward straight stitch and a backward straight stitch, and you’ll be GODDAMN grateful it even lets you do that. You want to do zig zags? Get fucked.
Threading it takes about 10 steps and feels like trying to defuse a bomb. It’s got a side fed bobbin case that takes an additional 3 or 4 steps to thread. If it’s not sharp or strong enough, it’ll snap through a heavy duty needle and without even slowing down, no matter stopping, sending the tip flying through the air at speeds capable of sending a piece of straw through a telephone pole. It’s compatible with exactly 0 of any other parts from any other brand machine except sometimes needles and it has a palpable air of bloodlust surrounding it.
But it’ll sew through 4 layers of denim like a hot knife through butter.
sewing machine fandom has some terrifying blorbos
These machines really are the Toyota Corollas of the sewing world.
I don’t know enough about cars to know what this means. Are Corollas death machines that demand your respect and blood?
Pre-2010 or so a Toyota Corolla was generally considered a reasonably priced car where you could weld the hood shut and drive it for 300,000 miles until the whole thing dissolved around you like a favorite t-shirt.
I think it might be more accurate to call it the Toyota Hilux of sewing machines in that while a Corolla has very low incidences of failure, the Hilux is more famously indestructible (ie the Top Gear tries to destroy a Hilux and fails despite leaving it on top of a building that is subsequently demolished, among many other attempts).
my sewing machine death blorbo is a White VS III treadle machine
it uses a needle size not made anymore and a very specific shuttle bobbin
it goes a forward straight stitch only, but it will sew through anything that fits under the presser foot. anything. plastic, eight layers of heavy canvas, bone, anything
amhrancas 