Looks wonderful, can't waait to see more!

I have owned a sewing machine for 9 years but have done more sewing on it in the past 4 months than in all the previous years put together!

I am *always* leaving the foot up and having to rip out a birds nest! I also had huge tension issues for years and years and thought it might be either my lack of knowledge about how to set up the tension wheels or that it was just an old basic machine. I finally asked a friend to come over and look at it for me and she said "I can't find anything wrong with it. However, I don't want to offend you or teach grandmother to suck eggs but you *are* using the thread guide aren't you?".

The thread what...?

Tension issues solved!

It's been such a learning curve and I'm still learning but that is 90% of the fun of making things to me!