Of course, our Sewing Machine Repair as a Home Business, the Serger Repair for the Home Sewer and the Complete Guide to Treadle Sewing Machines are available at SewMachineRepair.com.  You can check out all of our books, and be able to keep your machines in tip top shape and ready for use!!

Here’s what you do:

Visit our SewMachineRepair website to see what we have available, then when you purchase any one of the repair books, you get the second book, of equal or lesser value free – just pay the shipping on the second book.

For example, you could purchase the Sewing Machine Repair for the Home Sewer at regular price then get the Serger Repair For The Home Sewer FREE (just pay the shipping).

After visiting the SewMachineRepair website and deciding which books you want, just give me a call at 850-944-7570 to place your order.  Ask for Sarah when you call and we’ll get your Buy One Get One FREE book order taken and out to you.

This March Madness sale will go through March 31, 2012.  What a perfect opportunity to add to your sewing books or get books to give as gifts!

There are other small things the machines will do that you have to keep an eye on.  For example, my machine appears to have a real dislike for sewing velcro – the rough part.  The thread keeps popping out of the little hook that directs the thread down to the needle.  I have no earthly idea why it does this, but does  it only when sewing velcro.  After the first couple of times of getting the thread knotted up, I’ve learned to keep one eye on the fabric/velcro and the other eye on the little hook to see if the thread has popped out so I can get it back in line and continue sewing.

The “Sewing Machine Repair for the Home Sewer” is a perfect book to get you through the many problems that can occur, and keep your machine out of the repair shop.  This book goes through many problem/solution scenerios such as thread knotting in the bobbon area or on the fabric under the presser foot, in addition to teaching you how to “time” your machine and even shows you how to take apart the tension and put it back together again.   If you’re like me, I just can’t do without my machine, and anything I can do to keep it out of the repair shop (and those super high repair prices!), the happier I am!

Check out the Sewing Machine Repair for the Home Sewer book and the do-it-yourself information it contains!

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The real kicker is when you’re right in the middle of a major project (and usually one that I’m behind on), when the sewing machine decides to intervene and stop you in your tracks!  This happened to me last week — I was going to town on my stack of sewing when all of a sudden the machine stopped dead.  No, the power hadn’t gone out and no, the needle hadn’t broken on me — the needle had jammed with a mountain of loose floppy thread in the bobbin/shuttle area.

I’m very fortunate that my husband, author of Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer was in the other room reading the newspaper.  He came in and fixed it for me, and hinted that I check out the Sewing Machine Repair book, so if it might happen while he was on the golf course I could fix it myself and not have to wait until he got home (if it had happened an hour later, he WOULD have been on the golf course!).

A few days ago we received a call from a gentleman who was inquiring about our Sewing Machine Repair as a Home Business manual –  he said his wife worked for a quilting shop and was affiliated with two other quilting businesses, and that they get inquiries all the time about getting repair work done on machines.  He said he was retired, but not ready to be a couch potato, so wanted to order the repair manual so HE could do the repairs on the machines. 

Do YOU have extra time in your business that you could add sewing machine repair as a part of your business?  Or is your husband handy like mine, or retired, or simply been laid off his job lately and would like to help incorporate this business into what you already have going? 

Check out the SewMachineRepair.com site and see how you could benefit from the books that are available there.  You could easily SAVE yourself dollars by not having to take your machine to the repair shop (and be unable to work on those projects for a week or two while the machine sets at the repair shop), OR perhaps you’d like to MAKE some extra dollars by doing sewing machine repair.

SEWnFit.com is having a huge sale on all of their bestselling repair ebooks

This is a great time to get your copy of a complete home business manual that will help you to start your own sewing machine repair business, or add some additional income to your current business, for only $41.97 (regularly $59.95).

You can also save hundreds of dollars on repairs for your serger, treadle and sewing machines, protect your investment and keep them running for years while taking advantage of the steep discounts on these books:

• “Sewing Machine Repair for the Home Sewer” only $17.45, regularly $24.95
• “Complete Guide to Treadle Sewing Machines” only $17.45, regularly $24.95
• “Serger Repair for the Home Sewer” only $17.45, regularly $24.95

Download yours today and start saving on repairs right away!  Learn the tips and tricks you need to repair your own machines and never worry about breakdowns again.

The correct way of bringing the bobbin thread up after changing the bobbin is as follows:

A.  While holding the top thread with the left hand, turn the handwheel with the right hand until the needle is all the way down into the bobbin area.

B.  Keep holding the thread and rotating the handwheel, bring the needle up to the highest point.  As the needle comes up, a loop of bobbin thread will come up with it.  Pull on the top thread to draw up more of the bobbin thread.

C.  Turn loose of the top thread, and pull on the loop of the bobbin thread to bring up the free end of the bobbin thread.

D.  Pass both the top and bobbin threads under the presser foot and take them back toward the right.  Both thread ends should be at least 4″ long to prevent them from being pulled into the bobbin and jamming as you begin sewing.

Before beginning the sewing process, lay both threads under and toward the back of the presser foot – hold them gently as you begin to sew.  This will prevent the threads from being pulled into the bobbin area and jamming.

This may be “old hat” information to many of you; however if you are teaching children or adults how to sew, this would be excellent information to print out and give them for a reference.

**The above information is an excerpt from the Sewing Machine Repair for the Home Sewer book.

I’d like to make a suggestion to those of you who are desperately looking for a part time job.  Would you consider doing something from home?  Begin a part time home business.  A part time home business can be cheaper and more flexible than a second or third part time job.

Before you say “OK, let’s do it”, there are some very crucial things to consider.  As we all know, there are no home businesses that will make you rich overnight (at least I’ve never run across any).  Therefore there are some things to think about before jumping into the first thing you think sounds good.

** Choose a type of business that you already know something about.  Do you know how to sew?  Perhaps doing some alterations could bring in extra money.  Perhaps teaching others how to sew would be money for you and very helpful for those you’re teaching.

** Do you have a houseful of “things” that you’ve been wanting to go through and get rid of (outgrown kids clothes, shoes, knick knacks, etc).    Check into eBay  or Craig’s List and see how quickly you can get some of those things listed and sold.  You’ll feel really good about the housecleaning, not to mention the extra dollars you can make.

** Are you mechanically minded?  Think about putting out the word that you can do sewing machine repair — you’ll be surprised at the number of calls you’ll probably be getting as more and more people are digging out the dusty sewing machines so they can start sewing again.

** And speaking of sewing machine repair, I know someone who makes a business of hitting the yard sales, good will shops and flea markets and buys up the old sewing machines for just a few bucks, then repairs them and sells them for a great profit.

While starting your part time home business, choose low-cost marketing tactics, such as flyers hung at the local post offices, fabric shops, get some business cards printed that you can hand out.  Put a small advertising flyer or business card into your local bills when you pay them (power bill, water bill, etc); you never know when the people opening those payments at the utility companies might just need your services.

A part time home business may just be exactly what you need to create the extra money you need, and hopefully enough that you can stick a little away for emergencies.

Our best selling book “Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer” has helped literally thousands and thousands of people keep their machines at home and out of the repair shops.  Carol B. in Memphis recently wrote “I can’t believe it — 3 of my 6 machines were out of commission, so I thought I’d give your Sewing Machine Repair book a try before taking them to the repair shop.  I got your book in the mail, read through the problem / solution areas, then got busy on my machines.  By the end of the day all 3 machines were HUMMING again!  Your book saved me at least $150 the day I got it.  Thank you, thank you, thank you!”

Now for the good part — the Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer is now in downloadable eBook form — AND, for three more days (until Sept 30), the eBook is on sale for only $18.70 (regularly $24.95).  Do yourself a  favor and click here to get the newly updated and revised Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer book and keep YOUR machine humming!