Keeping it clean - brushing out the bits of fibre will help keep the machine going, and going well for a long time.

I knew a woman who used to earn her living sewing and she was almost proud of the number of machines she went through - having seen inside one once I was not at all surprised, it was just stuffed with fibre and old oil.

Only today my husband managed to turn a non working electronic knitting machine into a working one by giving a clean and polish to the pattern reader.

I have to confess that the 'repair' done to most machines which come to me is just a damn good clean and 60 percent of the time that fixes it and the rest of the time it shows up what is going wrong and I can sort it out in jig time.

With sewing machines it really helps to read the manual. They are usually useful even if written in pigeon English

Anne the Pleater :ootd: