My sewing machine broke and I can't give it up!

And this is exactly why I haven't been here for several days. (A week actually). There is no good time for a sewing machine to break and right now with all the holiday quilt blocks I am making for the kiddlets quilts it couldn't be a worse time. Being the mechanical person that I am I ventured into the realm of trying to fix it myself. I have made some progress. Very slowly. At least now I have the wheel turning. The machine just plain froze up just as solid as a piece of steel. I figure I will work on it when I have time to do so. In the mean time since I have no time to spare these days I just went online on ebay and purchased the exact same model as I have. So as of today I am back in business sewing away. I haven't given up on the other machine at all and figure once I do get it going I have a plan for it. Jerry had been telling me that I have been sewing on my machine way to much as of late and he felt it was being treated like and industrial machine rather than a home machine. (I have been obsessing again so I'm told). Hopefully tomorrow, since it is already after midnight, I can do some catching up here with everyone and everything. There is a good 2000 messages posted since last week already so a lot of catching up to do. julia