Bringing the Pfaffs home

Dec 01, 2007 5 Replies

Tonight a Pfaff Cover Style serger and a Pfaff 7570 sewing machine are sitting on my kitchen table. Also the computerized embroidery setup for the 7570. I am one confused woman.



I pulled the serger out of the box, looked at its five spools of thread and pushed it right back in teh box. Apparently she never got a chance to use it more than once or twice. I have a DVD to watch that is supposed to teach me how to thread the machine. I hope I can find a real human to teach me this. Otherwise I am lost, lost, lost.



The 7570 is another matter. Before I go to bed tonight I will hook it up and sew a few nice, straight seams. I already like the machine. It's just beautiful. Only problem and maybe one of you Pfaff users can help me: how do I open the bobbin compartment? I'm used to a top loading bobbin and this may drive me a bit nutty, not being able to see when I'm running out of thread on the bobbin. Do any of you ahve little tricks?



Anyhow, I feel blessed to have something that meant a great deal to my friend. I told her today I was taking her baby home with me and she managed a bit of a smile from somewhere in deeply medicated fog.



For the most part, I don't really care about my possessions. But my sewing machine.... that 's different. That's my b aby and I want it always to be loved and used.



Anyway, it is likely to be a few weeks before I get back to anything like a regular sewing time. My energy is needed by people and that takes precedence for now.



Love to you all and go hug your babies and hubbies and fuzzbutts and friends and sewing machines, Sunny


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Sunny--As best I can tell from the pictures I found on the web, you would swing away the white free arm thingy and then pull down the bobbin door. Most Pfaffs have an electronic indicator to let you know when the bobbin is running low so no need to worry that you can't see the bobbin. My experience is that once the light appears, I can then tell by listening when the bobbin has actually run out. A quick look on the web also found a manual or two, just in case you didn't get one. Also, you can engage the IDF (Pfaff's version of a walking foot) for almost every type of sewing. I tend to use mine unless I am free motion quilting. Have fun!

Mary

I hope you figure them out! I'm also sitting here with a new machine. I took the plunge and went for the Brother Innov-is QC 1000. After saying last week I wouldn't take the offer of a free serger, I find that Brother are offering a serger free with some of their machines, you have to send off for it and it takes 6 weeks. DH has done his research and checked they are reliable over it and found they have an online tracking system, we'll take copies of everything, obviously. The store also said to come to them if we have any issues with them actually producing it! I tried to not let this influence me, I'm not going to say no, but I made myself consider the machine for what it was, after all, I'm spending the money serger or not! Luckily the shop offers unlimited teaching, and will do that for the serger as well. The manual for the sewing machine is understandable to me, though I wonder how much that is due to for something that I know the basics of or not.

I'm both excited and nervous, I feel that I have to make a commitment to really learn this machine and use it's full capabilities, I don't work (my visa doesn't allow it), so this is DH's hard earned money, he's one of those men who never sees it as his money, he also obviously takes great pleasure in seeing me happy and enjoying something, which is wonderful, but a responsibility too! I wish I could suggest something that he could get - he did get a new racing bike recently, which even though it's his commuting transport, he seems to get great pleasure from it. We also bought a vacuum cleaner, been as it's the same shop, but it hardly seems the same league, he gets to figure that out and then do the cleaning, whilst I get to create!

Sunny, I'm so glad you could make your friend smile, I hope they can find a balance of managing her pain versus being very groggy, or at least that the groggy side effect goes away faster than any increase in pain.

Anne

Sunny: Congratulations!! Pfilomina Pfaff, a proud member of the 7570 Pfamily, just helped me finish the quilting on the Pink Ribbon Quilt. After lunch, she will be helping me apply the binding. She and I make a good team, and enjoy piecing, quilting, and even other sewing together.

Mary has already described how to open the bobbin door. Be sure to close the door after loading the bobbin, so the bobbin indicator will work. The red light (and the screen message) will not engage if the door is open.

Enjoy your new power tools! Pat and Pfilom> Tonight a Pfaff Cover Style serger and a Pfaff 7570 sewing machine are

Should be a little flap on the front of the free arm, and there should be a low bobbin icon appearing on the screen. On mine (a 2042) this means there's about a yard of thread left, depending on the thickness of the thread. Roberta in D

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