Why my brother should not be allowed to touch the sewing machine...

My brother appears to have broken my sewing machine. -_-X He came up here, complaining it was too noisy and put stuff under the machine to try to muffle the sound. It should have been okay if that was all he did but he decided to step on the pedal afterwards when there wasn’t any fabric there to sew. And now, the thread from the bobbin won’t come up. I’ve opened it up to see if there’s thread tangled somewhere but only found dust and don’t see anything obvious.

I’m annoyed because if this hadn’t happened, I should have been able to finish the machine sewing on my Ayame shirt today. All I had left to do was hem the edges of the skirt part and attach it to the rest of the shirt. Bah. *goes off to post on forums instead*

Botanic Garden Plans

Well, it’s February, so I figure it’s time to set a meeting spot and time for the Lunar New Year event at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on the 10th.

Is 11AM okay for a meeting time? I figure it’s not really early but still early enough to get into the gardens for free. :-) I should be getting there by subway and going into the park at the Eastern Parkway entrance. Would people prefer to meet there or inside the visitor’s center? (map here: http://www.bbg.org/exp/maps/bbg_map_1000.html) I thought the visitor’s center might be better if everyone knows how to find their way around the park since we won’t have to wait outside if someone happens to be running late. If anyone else wants to come, let me know. Right now, I’m only expecting shinei, maybe xmemoryless (if she’s able to get the day off), and a guy who replied on cosplay.com.

I hope the weather is good for this thing. Even if all the event activities are indoors in the conservatory, it wouldn't be fun to have to go out in the rain or snow to get there. ^_^;

And to add to the subject of my previous post, the sewing machine really seems dead. My mother, who worked as a seamstress before I was born, looked at it and she couldn’t get the bobbin thread to come up either. It was a Kenmore that my mother got for $80 back in the ‘80s so we’ve gotten a good amount of use out of it; I’ve sewn all my costumes so far on it plus some other random clothes. My parents said we can go buy a new one this weekend but the delay in finishing the shirt is annoying. (Good thing this didn’t happen the week before a con!)