The Patience of Job

My husband has the patience of Job; and  when it comes to me,  I think I require a lot of patience.  Yesterday, when I went to work on my quilt, I discovered the sewing machine did not work. When I plugged in the foot pedal cord to my Bernina, it just would not move the machine.  I had some trouble with this in the past, but if I jiggled the cord, it would usually go.  I worked at for about five minutes, and then I got my husband.  He can fix anything!  He came into the room, and he tried, and nothing happened, so he said, "Let's just take it the Bernina store and get it fixed."   So, off we went with foot pedal and book about my particular Bernina machine in tow.  We live in the country and everything is at least 30 or more minutes away from us.  We arrive at the store and the gal plugs my foot pedal into one of the machines there, and it worked perfectly.  I felt pretty silly, but my husband thought that meant the machine itself had a problem. 

The gal at the store told us this particular Bernina store was going out of business, and the only closest  one was in Green Valley, Arizona  Now that's at least an hour and a half drive.  So we go home.  Hubby has stop at the gas station.  While he got the gas, I glanced at the Bernina book, and turned to the "Troubleshooting" section.  Here is what I read when my eyes fell on that page:

"In most cases you will be able to identify and remedy faults by checking the following:  Sewing computer fails to run or runs slowly (last bullet point) Bobbin winder still switched on."

Humm, I wondered.  We drove home, and Hubby followed me to the sewing room; I plug in the machine, notice that the bobbin winder is switched on.  I move it. "Now it will run," I announce, and ran it.  Hubby looks at me, rolls his eyes a bit, and says, "Well, at least we had a nice drive and found out that we have to drive to Green Valley for quilting supplies."  He turned and left me sitting at my machine feeling pretty silly.

Now there's a good man!

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