Smoking is bad

So I was supposed to get a lot done today, but every time I sat down to work on something I got sent on another errand.  I got the serger last night and spent two hours figuring out how to thread it only to be severely disappointed.  The pedal doesn’t really work.  It goes just fast enough to not be considered stationary.  After I had the pedal pushed down at full speed for five minutes it sewed about one centimeter and smoke actually started coming out of the machine.  Yes, smoke.

I don’t know what I’m going to do with it.  It might just need oiled.  It is over thirty years old and hasn’t been touched for at least fifteen.  But maybe it’s just broken.  I’m gonna try to take it to a repair shop.  If I can’t get it fixed right away I’ll probably ditch the plan to use it and move on.  I hope that doesn’t happen, though.  

I did buy the fabric for the obi of Kamikirimusi’s costume.  I would work on that, but I was in a rush buying it between my errands and forgot to buy fusible heavy interfacing.  And I need that to make it.  *sigh*