An experiment

So yesterday I took the bull by the horns and decided to have a go at sewing with the metallic thread. it is very fine rayon coated in silver something......of course it comes off the cone in spirals. One of the problems is the spiral can twist and form a piece of thread you just do not want anywhere near your machine.......so I asked for tips, and many were forthcoming.......the main ones seemed to be use a thread stand as far away from the machine as possible, slow down the machine and use a metallic needle.....

The first one I sewed I hade to keep stopping to stop the twists going into the tension discs, so tried moving the thread stand further back, hmm slightly better, then I decided, as I had my 10 bobbin stand on the machine ro run the thread around one of the spikes.......it worked, by the time the thread got to the machine it was almost straight, I did have a couple of breaks but on the whole it worked well.

Thread behind the machine travelling up to the thread stand on the back of the machine.

You can just see it coming down from the top of the guide and round

the spool pin.

here it goes through the two thread guides and into the tension discs.

I am going to try and get the other 3 sewn today.  I did slow the speed down to half, but used the needle that was in. I need to have a hunt for the metallic needles, I know I have some.

Its very cold this morning, fleeces on, have not turned the heat up, we will manage with it as it is, just make sure the doors are kept closed. We have left over soup for lunch and smoked haddock, poached eggs and bread and butter for supper tonight. We have finished most of the chocolate we were given, so its back to normality. I have some panetonne left, will make a bread and butter pudding for tomorrow night.