Just This Side of Sane – 2021 Wrap Up

Happy 2022 everyone!

For the second year in a row, I think most of us were pretty happy to see the back end of the past year.  It was a challenging year here.

I do like these year in review posts – even if they don’t tend to be that popular.  They help me to see that I wasn’t idle after all.  It seems like the winter can be a hard time to change years.  It’s dark and cold (up here anyway!) and what the heck did I even accomplish anyway?

What indeed.

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Reader Mail – January 2022 edition – Slant-o-matic spring gone rogue

Probably every couple of years, I get this question.  It goes something like this:

“I opened up the top of my machine, and I found a spring laying in the bottom.  Where does it go? ”

The machines in question are usually the Singer 401/403/500/503/411/421/431 and some of the related machines.

This is what the spring looks like.

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