Breaking the sewing machine.
Well it finally happened, our old sewing machine died. I was sewing along making a new foredeck bag from sailrite . When it went chunk bending the needle side ways. I was rather surprised. I was just about to sew on the zipper. So I changed the needle out and went to give it a try again. Chunk. One layer of sunbrella and a zipper did it in. After all the other abuses I've laid on the machine I couldn't believe it. With some fiddling I figured out that the bobbin was not turning. Off to the sewing machine repair shop. Turns out I had stripped a gear up in the machine head. It was not worth repairing. So we searched for a replacement machine. After watching e bay, and a checking out a few other places we decided to go with a new Singer Stylus. It does not seem quite as heavy as the old machine but it has lots of buttons and does lots of cool stitches. It even makes a cute beeping noise at you when you try to sew through to many layers at once. But it should do