Re: sewing machine woes
- From: Anne Rogers <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 09:28:15 -0800
The batting might be too thick or causing the needle to stick.
it shouldn't be, it's a cotton/bamboo mix, it's 1/8 inch think, it feels very like warm and natural, but is a little softer and drapier.
Some machines like a throat plate that only accomodates the straight stitch, not the zig-zag one.
I could try that, I have the plate, but I've been inclined not to use it as I know I'm the type of person that would forget and then try and do something with a different needle position....
Try the free motion foot (also called darning foot, and you're calling it a hopping foot) in another machine to see if it works there. Feet can be fersnickety, and they make all the difference.
worth a try, it looks like my other machine has the same size shank etc and it should fit.
You've been able to do free-motion in the past? You're experienced at it? I find that my free-motion skills are excellent as long as stay with the machine I know, the adjustments I know, and the batting and thread I know. Each time I make a change, I have to learn again. I don't have to learn from the start, but there is a learning curve. Skipped stitches could be operator's error.
Well I'm not a super experienced award winning quilter, but yes, I can do it and I've used some of the more challenging threads, mettallic etc with success. The thread I'm using now is coats and clark machine quilting thread.
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One has to hold the quilt sandwich differently when doing the middle of a quilt and the border. Maybe something different about where you place your hands and how fast you're able to go?
> If there's something different about your posture and positioning, the
> variable could be the peddle.
last night I was switching between a sample, 10 or so inches square and an unattached border, 10inches by 90+, moving them around was exactly the same, I had the extension table one and was wearing machiningers. There was no quilt bunched up under the harp, and very little extra weight and it was moving freely.
One more wild thing to consider-- The worst problem I had with a machine came from the thread. It had been treated with something to make it glide through batting when hand quilting. I put it in my machine where it promptly (about an hour) gummed up my tension disks and made them immovable. After the gumming, switching back to a tried and true thread didn't work. If there's something different about the fabric in the border, it could get on the thread, which would get on the tension disks.
I prewashed the fabric, it's all standard prints, no batiks, nothing with texture like white on whites. I think I've used coats and clark machine quilting thread before, but I switched to aurifil and got the same problem.
Anne
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