Walk around and shake out your muscles. Drink a BIG glass of water. Then go back to your poor tired sewing machine and give it a drink of oil. Clean out the lint in the bobbin area. Change your needle. Give it a chance to cool off! LOL
Then give your furbabies some loving and a few treats.
This public service message brought to you by The Poor Pathetic Neglected HairyButt Gang in MO.
This is a FAKE!!!
No gang of furbabies would tell quilters to walk around etc. *before* giving treats!!!
but I agree with the post! relax in-between sewing , have a hot shower or bath before sitting down for the night or your muscles could really, really get nasty...
I'm cheering all the quilters on from here! I'm sewing too but that is for a magazine deadline.
wooo hooo WTG girls & guys!!!
Good words! Before I do any marathon sessions (cutting, sewing, pressing..) I take a few moments to read the gems of advice in Rx for Quilters (shameless plug for book I did not write). It has good ideas for simple stretches to do, the right way to sit, and so on. If you have a trapped nerve like me, you must be careful, but it's good advice for every body!
-- Jo in Scotland
LOL.....just came in to sit down at the computer for a second and actually find permission and instuctions. Cat needs a treat and a scratch, husband needs a hello and a scratch. After a big glass of water and a stop in the potty.....back to it.............lol
Mary
Thanks for the reminder, Leslie. However, I got it after the EuroPro decided it had enough for the time being. Mother was using it last night and somehow broke a needle. I got part of it, but neither of us knows where the other bit is (probably in the machine). I took apart the bobbin area and defuzzed everything and it worked fairly well, but then DH came in and said he could here a clicking that he hadn't heard with it before. I'm going to get the telescoping magnet tomorrow as well as some canned air and sewing machine oil and see if I can ferret out the little bugger.
I *do* still have my Kenmore 12-stitch, which is perfect for long term sewing, but my back is hurting from sitting for so long, and I'm really ticked off about the Euro, so I'm taking a break for the night. WIll get the 5 that I stitched together turned and ready for the last step, and that's it as far as sewing for today goes. I have 6 more ready to be sewn, but I will wait and do them after I paint the hallway tomorrow....or maybe the next day. I have to find a box to ship these out in....the only decent box (not counting the ones that still have things we haven't unpacked yet) that I have has clothes and things to send off to Tricia - she said clothes for 5-11 yo, and i just happen to have a 5yo who has some clothes he's outgrown . Ah well, we all need to take breaks every now and then.
Larisa, still fum> Walk around and shake out your muscles. Drink a BIG glass of water.
That book is required reading for all my newbies!!
But I agree - furbies come first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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