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LET’S TALK ABOUT MACHINE MAINTENANCE with KATIE
🧵🌸 LET’S TALK ABOUT MACHINE MAINTENANCE with KATIE MATTHEWS – KAREN’S QUILT CIRCLE
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Today’s guest is Katie Matthews, A BERNINA technician from the UK. She is part of a new breed of sewing machine technicians …
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Thank you,very informative 🎉. I look forward to seeing you on the London/Iceland cruise
Thanks for another wonderful interview Karen. So great to hear such a delightful conversation with someone who has found a way to help others in her community, to keep necessary knowledge alive. Makes me wonder if she had ever considered sponsoring workshops for repair technicians or budding repair technicians. Like retreats for people interested in this. I don't know how else this knowledge base is going to be passed along. Thanks for all you do! ❤
It was great to meet Katie 😃 I would just love to find someone like her here in the North East 🤔👍 and I think, if I was younger, I would have loved to be a sewing machine engineer 😃👏🇬🇧
Sadly this is so true. My machine is in the shop right now (tech is a female at my quilt shop) and they are so far behind it's 2 months minimum before she even gets to look at it. Luckily I have a backup machine. Once again a great trade school option instead of college.
Wow,spoke to my heart ❤ . As a fellow Health worker and now sewing machine shop owner loved this interview . ❤️
In the US, we have to take our machines back to the dealer and they send it back to the factory for service. We never see the service tech. And they warn us that we will void our warranty if we take it to an independent service tech. It's very frustrating to not be able to talk to the person who is working on my machine.
So fun and knowledgeable! Great interview!
Very informative. 🎶💐💖
😍😍😍
I’m blessed, the now, older gentleman that has been servicing my machines for 30 years, has brought his 3 sons to work on machines. His daughter and 3 daughter in laws work with selling machines and managing the fabric center. The place has such a wonderful family atmosphere. Last time I went in one of the sons asked my grandson who’s 7 and messed up my Janome, if he could show him what not to do. He spent 45 minutes showing him in the showroom why it’s important not to touch this and that. He also let him sew a bit. When we got back in the car, he asked if he could sew too. I was thrilled!
This was an interesting interview. However, really not telling maintenance. Kind of disappointed. I would have appreciated more on the subject.
Lovely interview, fascinating
Really enjoyed the interview. I happen to be lucky enough to have a female tech who has brought my Singer 201 back to peak performance near Detroit MI.
My LQS in Wisconsin the owner is an engineer and three out of four of her employees are female. Only one is male.
It's quite simple to make a buttonhole on the newer machines. On machines pre zigzag, it was not so easy.
Karen. This was interesting but hoping you do a more hands on type segment for machine maintenance. 😅
I found a "Woman Owned" sewing machine business not far from me. She repaired my 50 year old Elna and even pointed out to me that the previous repairMAN didn't replace my motor…yes, he charged me for it.
I learned how to manually make buttonholes in the early 70’s using the zig-zag stitch settings – before the buttonhole attachment!! For me it’s just easier to do them “manually”.
When I teach beginning sewing I ask students to bring their manuals to class – they get comfortable looking things up and I’ll know they’ll use it at home!
Sewing machine repair people are difficult to find here where i am in the US but i have a dependable, very knowledgeable one. And he is 4 wks out on fixing things. And i never mess with the tension on my sewing machine.
What a great interview. Love 💕 my older machines. 1932 Featherweight, 1972 Kenmore and 1990’s Pfaff.
👀 Looking for original Pfaff 1471 darning foot
If anyone has one they will part with 😊
Thank you
I just have to say my Featherweight makes the best button holes. Better honestly than my 3 new/computerized machines. Funny…
Great interview Karen. What a fascinating lady Katie is. Her shop looks beautiful. My mum was born in that area of England and I still use her old machine she bought with her to Australia in late 1950s.👏♥️🇦🇺
I'm a vintage Singer lover, I learned on a featherweight. I now own 2 working vintage Singers and a Sears Kenmore from the 70's. I love them all, much more than the computerized Singer I used to have. The old ones are much easier to maintain in my humble opinion.
When I'm in England I only buy English fabrics. I was in a shop and the owner was trying to sell me kona, and ihad to explain why it was important to buy "local".
❤ AWESOME PROGRAM 😊😊
What a delightful, informative and thoroughly enjoyable listen with my morning cuppa 👏🌻
I agree about the service person being able to sew. I asked one sewing mechanic/engineer (at a craft show) about a stitch. He blew me off with, "I don't sew, I repair machines". Needless to say, I haven't been to his shop. The two fellows in two different shops that I go to, both sew. And they are both honest and have helped me when there have been machine problems. Before I met the family who have the shop in the industrial estate, had one place tell me that they were having difficulty obtaining a computer part for my machine that was in for service. I picked it up the next day – it was a fully mechanical machine.
My sewing machine serviceman has a store in an industrial area too. All bland yucky industrial estate look on the outside. Then nice sewing shop inside. It is a family business of four adults now. He even offered my son a job when he was between jobs, but my son turned it down.
Amazing Awesome lady ❤
Katie is such a great guest. Thank you for sharing her. 😊
Great interview! I’m motivated to find my manuals and learn how to maintain my machines.
Always interesting thanks. I think it’s important to get some instruction when you buy a new machine, like learning to drive
🎉Thank you for this information,
Great interview
Very interesting interview. I can only speak to Bernina manuals, but I think the reason people don’t read them is because they are not organized in what I consider a logical manner, and their index is not at all helpful. I depend on YouTube videos for learning to use my machines and only go to the manual when I need a very specific piece of information.
Karen, thank you so much for this interview. Katie is so sweet. Oh, to have her knowledge. Enjoyed every minute. Thanks again.
I am one of those who does read the manual and am disappointed when they are so limited. Almost seems like the writer has left out some of the information when I'm trying to figure something out. I've been a Bernina girl since 1995 when I bought a 1630. Have a 475QE that I bought last year when the quilt show was in Duluth, Ga. I have taken classes with women who had not read the manual because they had to ask "how to" when something wasn't working correctly. They'd say it was to complicated to read. Really enjoyed the program today.
Tension is still a problem
When is your cruise?
It was an absolute delight to meet Katie! This was such a fun Karen’s Quilt Circle! Thank you!🥰