Pipe Cleaner for the Win!

I've had my sewing machine for over 10 years and embarrassingly have never cleaned it! While researching how to quilt on a normal sewing machine, I stumbled on a tip to clean out the bobbin area with a pipe cleaner. Dust and thread pieces latch on to the fuzz of the stick. Works like magic!

Beware, pictures included are mildly disturbing and not well suited for OCD, clean freaks.

Ewwww!! (But yet so gratifying!)

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