[saturnV]

Haha yes, I have been around sewing machines all my life, but my boyfriend always gets so exited to see the inside of the machine and learn about the mechanisms when I need help troubleshooting.

I think that the main thing that I have learned from sewing machines when I was young is daring to open machines and trying to troubleshoot it myself. With these machines a lot ga go wrong but most of it is easy to fix.

Also, I’m not sure how to name it, great 2D to 3D intuition? After a lot of patterns you get great intuition in how you can bend, fold and connect flat shapes to make things in 3D. It is much more commonly applicable than it sounds, and helps me visualize things better.