One of those days

Today was one of Those Days.  Where very little went right.  Even the things that seemed to go great went bad fast.

Yesterday, I began to work on a shirt and hat order. The simple sew the logo and names on two t-shirt should have been done in an hour.  Three hours later, I was giving up and running to Walmart for a new shirt. The customer had bought the camo shirts on clearance of course.  Which meant that there wasn't any medium shirts. I bought two XL's just in case.  The embroidery machine jammed and I had to cut the bobbin thread, to get the shirt off the machine.  Leaving behind a small hole in the shirt.

This morning I picked out the thread of the two letters, an hour worth of work, slow and steady, clip and pick the threads, clip and pick the threads.  I then ironed on a small piece of no show mesh stablizer to the back after I pinched the hole as closed as it would go. I went back to the computer and added a tree behind the Name. Once the tree stitched out over the hole, you could not even tell there had been a problem. Once I finished the name, my machine gave me an error message about the wiper sensor, which is what pulls back the thread before clipping.  I was done, so I manually trimmed the thread and un-hooped the shirt.  Quick lunch break and then I placed the shirt on the machine to begin the business logo, when I got more error messages. Thankfully the stitching only did the first lock down stitches and the jump stitch to the start of the first part of the logo.

A quick call to my dealer and I fixed the thread jam, under the needle plate.  I decided that I had better do a stitch out to make sure everything was good. 

I just grabbed some twill squares and stitched it out.  You can't see it but the bobbin thread is showing on top.  So I rethreaded the machine, changed needles, cleaned out the bobbin area again, and the second stitch out still wasn't any better.  The best part was I used the serger to finish the edges. This stitch out will go in my customer file for next time. 

I also have a small job to make some patches for the dry cleaner in town. They are sponsoring their great niece in the rodeo and want patches to sew on her shirt sleeves.  Look good, except when I went to soak off the wash a way stabilizer, it didn't wash away.  Crap, Now I have to slowly trim the extra stablizer without cutting the satin edge. Tomorrow I need to add the patch attach to the back so in a pinch they can just iron on the patches.