Re: sewing machine woes

Polly Esther wrote:
I searched your post looking for a clue and perhaps I see one. Could it just be that whatever you're using in that border simply defies quilting?
Our Yorkshire Terrier now has a quilt that is only half-stitched. Nothing I could do (and I tried everything anyone could think of) would work for very long on that creation. We decided the 'impossible' in that quilt was the white-on-white fabric. I will always believe that they used something unspeakable in manufacturing. It could also be that your batting + fabric combination is causing your woes.

My original sample didn't have the same backing, I'd used two scraps of some of the front fabric and the same batting. So last night I made up one with identical fabric, backing, batting, border fabric. I don't think I single stitch stayed in it, so I though aha, it's the backing (which would be very annoying, it's just regular plain coloured cotton) and went back to the other sample, but it did the same thing on there. It's as if it starts off okay when you first thread it and then after about 12 inches it stops working, it works partially, then won't work at all. Then you rethread and a similar thing, it will appear to be fine for a short time, then deteriorates.

I'm grabbing at straws with Leslie but wonder how things would go if you simply set your quilt aside and tried making something else. I wonder if you would be successful if you were stitching on another quilt; perhaps a crib quilt or preemie quilt. A set of placemats? Just one?

I probably should...

At least by moving on or moving over, you could find out if it's that quilt, the SM or the operator.

Well I have had this problem come up on another quilt, but I assumed it was the batting as it was the first time I'd tried fusible batting.

Cheers
Anne
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