My Sewing Machine is Weird

I realized something today - I'm taking more classes now than I did in college!  

I was planning to finish some of them before starting something new, but I couldn't wait any longer to start my Remains of the Day journal.  So I took out my sewing machine and I've kind of forgotten how it works.  It already had a bobbin in the bottom and I managed to thread the top.  But the needle wouldn't go up and down.

Being demented, the first thing I did was take it apart because you know, maybe the belt was loose or something.  This was an educational and informative exercise.  Mostly I learned not to take your sewing machine apart because springs and things will pop out all over the place.  Once it was in pieces I remembered I had a manual for it somewhere.  Ah - apparently if the bobbin threader on the top is slid over then the needle won't go up and down.

So I put all the springs and things back ...most of them anyway.  There are still two screws left over.  I absolutely could not find a place for them.

The weirdest part is that my sewing machine still works perfectly.  Huh....

Here's some of the pages I made - it's going to be a scrapbook from a cruise I went on last winter.  I used the papers from a scrapbook kit along with the brochures and receipts and stuff that I gathered along the way.  As soon as the photos are printed I'll sew them on along with the embellishments.