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Old 07-13-2009, 02:23 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Thanks for the response, alicat!
I decided to give up on using it for my curtain-making project. It kept tearing the fabric: in-out-in-out quickly right in a row, ripping a nice little bunch of holes that eventually ran together. I'm quick enough with hand stitching that I didn't bother to hunt down a real sewing machine. I took the thing apart completely after struggling with it for a couple of hours. It doesn't have an internal bobbin. Sure, it comes with bobbins, but those are only so you don't have to travel with a whole spool of thread. The stitch it's supposed to make is a loopy thing and it will ravel if you don't tie off both ends immediately. It doesn't do any back-stitching.

They still sell these junky things. Mine was a gift, but I saw them for sale last week at the local CVS pharmacy.
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