OK, maybe not evil, but definitely making incorrect assumptions.
Stepping back for a moment so you get it from the start, DD3 is terrified of "breaking" one of my SMs. I think it goes back to when she was trying to sew a Halloween costume and decided to leave the bobbin be and use some cheap poly thread she had on top, instead of asking me for thread. Popped the whole bobbin case right out of the machine, and she completely freaked out. She thought for sure she had somehow destroyed it and that I was going to kill her. I confess to severe disgruntlement, but I didn't howl at the moon, grow teeth and claws, and go for her throat!
So she has avoided asking to use one of my machines pretty much since then. I have encouraged her to give them a go when she needs to sew something, but she always says, "But I'll break it, and then you'll have to kill me."
So DH got her her very own sewing machine for Christmas. Before you go "Awww, how sweet!", it was a Singer Pixie. I do have to say that it is better than the Tiny series in that it dies faster and thus ends your agony before you _completely_ lose your mind.
I asked DH why on earth he bought the thing without asking me about it first. He said the exact same thing he told me when he bought me the Tiny Serger (after I said no! don't do it! a LOT). His mom's sewing machines were Singers, and one of my sewing machines is a Singer, so he thought it would be pretty good. For reference, his mom's first machine was a treadle, and her second was a second hand Rocket. My Singer is an
83 year old 99.First problem with the Pixie, the only manual in the box was in spanish. This is probably a packing error, so I don't blame them too much, if I call them they will probably send one in english. It did drive DD bonkers though. If it had been in french, japanese, or mandarin chinese, she could have probably at least parsed it out. However her multi-lingual capabilities do not extend to spanish.
After we sorted it out with help from the illustrations, it sewed fine. For about a day. Then it quit catching the bobbin thread and that was the end of that. I fussed with it, DH fussed with it, we figured a few things in the manual out with the help of a little latin, and musician's italian. So we know things like the bobbin is held in with a magnet. If we take the top plate off, it sews fine. Just the way the thing goes together though, even leaving the screws loosened when you put the plate back on doesn't help to make it work when it is all together.
I'll call for a manual tomorrow. I set DD up on my Imperial to get the bit of applique she needed done for her costume for the animae convention done. She survived, the machine survived, it's all good.
NightMist Never trust a mechanical device that is 95% plastic