Maintain your machine!

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Whether you have a sewing machine, or a serger, you should regularly maintain them. This is especially important for sergers as they go through a lot of thread, causing a load of lint to build up. However, for today, I will be focusing on the sewing machine. This issue was brought to my attention out of curiousity. I had skimmed through my sewing machine manual the other day, saw the maintenance section, so I got curious as to how linty my machine was after a year (it's come up on it's birthday). Well, I looked and it was a pigpen of lint, foam, and grease!

I strongly urge you to maintain your machine regularly. If you can't spare the time right after you work on a project, then if you sew regularly, do it once a week or once a month. Make time to do it or it could end up back firing a few years down the line and your machine will need major maintenance. If you keep up with it now, your machine will thank you. ESPECIALLY if you sew crafts, quilts, or anything with batting, tissue paper, and/or foam.

So, because I am here to educate you all while I learn, I have started a photo album on flikr.com because that's just the easiest way to share photos with the public. I usually use photobucket.com, but I'm not into their new slideshow feature.

Enough with the banter, here's the link to my tutorial slideshow of de-linting my horizontal drop-in machine! (And you get to see how dirty mine was!) Slideshow of cleaning my machine.