My friend Dino

I received a phone call out of the blue the other day that I was happy to receive. It wan Montavilla calling to let me know that my machine wqas ready to be picked up- the service repair was complete. I was taken aback. I had thought that I traded it in, and had regretted doing so. When I called to get it back, the owner had told me that he had already repaired it and sold it. I was pretty bummed. But! The good news is that he was mistaken. It had not yet been sold, and I still had the ticket for repair. I now have 4 sewing machines! Crazy! Here is a picture of the lovely Dino, my old dinosaur (he gets his name from the rurrawruh noise when he sews).



Not the prettiest machine- a little blocky, but works great, overall. I'm keeping the Janome because that's fun, too. It is just a different animal. More like a rabbit. I have not decided on a name for it yet.

New Machine

In January, my straight-stitch machine had some problems as the timing was off. The timing refers to the relationship between the upper needle(s) and the lower looper. This caused skipped stitching. That's not good.

So, I brought my ten year old Pfaff 6091 Varimatic into the local sewing machine supply store for repair. They said that it would take about 2 weeks to repair, and I can remember there was a line around the building of sewing machines waiting to get in like it was the hippest night club in town. The fact is, as my friend Jessie put it, "I think Montavilla is running a racket..."

It's not that there is only ONE Sewing machine shop in town, but this particular one has many locations & pretty decent prices. Plus, they have been in the business of selling & servicing sewing machines for years. Needless to say, I had a two and a half week setback.

Funny thing is though, two weeks after I brought my sewing machine home, the timing fell off again. Sadly, it seems that setting the machine to button hole mode activated the disruption in service. I began wondering if it was worth it to have these re-occurring set bAcks. At least Monatvilla gauruantees their service for a year. They were more than happy to take a second look at it & do any further repairs for free. Ultimately, I felt that going forward, any future setbacks would not be worth-while, so I traded up.

Buying a new machine was tough. I was so attached to my Pfaff 6091 Varimatic. I knew there were added features installed on newer sewing machines, though, even on the cheapies that fell into my budget range. I figure that I can always trade again in the next year or two depending on how well business is running. At this point, I just had to pick and choose.

My final Choice: Janome Decor model DC3050



For more info, go to http://www.janome.com/index.cfm

Goodbye DINO! Thanks for all of the goodtimes, my dinosaur!

Hello! Janome! Looking forward to all of the fun & new projects we will have together.... Must find you a name, though!


Readers, any suggestions? It's relatively quiet, and sort of sounds like a tape cassette rewinding!


Signing off now,

CARTER SAFARI