New Singer Quantum 9600 and a List of Sewing Projects

Finally, I bought a new sewing machine!

My old one was my mother's. It was a great sewing machine and I had it since my mother passed away. I used it for quite a lot of projects including a few quilts, blankets, dresses for my daughter and even an occasional hem mending :)

About a year ago, a plastic strip that was responsible for changing the machine between the different stitches, broke. I took it to a technician that said that he has no spare parts for this type of strip so he improvised. Since you can setup a zigzag stitch to have no width at all, which means that it's basically a straight line stitch, he got the machine to the position of the zigzag stitch and secured it in place. This means that I could only use the straight line and the zigzag stitches instead of the 25 different stitches on the machine. I didn't mind much because these are truly the most important and frequently used stitches, and from a sentimental point of view I was also happy to keep working on my mother's machine.

On the first sewing attempt after the visit to the technician, I found out that I have a bigger problem on my hands. The machine would only go backwards. I tried fixing it by myself using a few tips I read online but with no success. Since I had to fix a hem on some new trousers, I ended up doing the hem backwords.

After some thought, and careful consideration I decided not to fix the old machine but to buy a new one. The fixing cost verses the price of a new one just left me without any doubts. I decided to buy the Singer Quantum 9600 and so far I'm very pleased. I haven't had much chance to really work on it yet, but I have played with it and it's gazillion stitches as soon as it arrived about two weeks ago. 

And now that I have my new machine ready, I must go on with my sewing projects, one by one:

1. Finishing off the binding of the baby quilt I started a while back.

2. Making much more of my fabric covered notebooks.

3. Making some skirts for my daughter.

4. Reupholstering our piano stool.

Not to mention hamming a pair of pants, finally making curtains in the kids' bedrooms, and trying other projects that I set aside for this day to come.

How about you? What type of sewing machine do you use? What are you working on now?

I'd love to hear about it.

Thanks for stopping by,

Shimrit