somehow without ever experiencing homestuck my brain has been homestuck poisoned enough that my followup thought was "is this kismesis"
ukpol
(to clarify - no elections in my constituency, and i'm only eligible to vote in the one place)
sewing machine, rambling
a couple things that i hadn't realized before trying to get it to work are that the retractable spool pin and the accessory box are both missing. These are easy enough to work around - i can keep accessories elsewhere, and the machine came with a pin that fits in the extra pin hole, so i'm just using that
sewing machine, rambling
one thing i'm really liking is that i can open the front up, which means i can see what's going on inside. not only is that just neat from a right to repair standpoint, it's also really useful for me to see which parts are moving when so i can figure out what the machine is actually _doing_
sewing machine, rambling
so far i've just done the basics: winding some bobbins, threading it, and sewing the non-buttonhole stitches
aside from the threading, it's all reasonably intuitive and there are some really cool bits: my favorite so far is how when you're winding the bobbin, the latch needs to be pushed in - so when the bobbin is full, that pushes it out just enough that it stops winding (this is described on page 9 of the manual)
sewing machine, rambling
so i've been playing around with my sewing machine - it's a Fritser + Rossman Hub 7, the manual for which can be found here: https://documents.pub/document/frister-cub-7.html
mostly human, ontological anarchist, anatomically disorganised catboy, doing a phd in reservoir computing