Re: sewing machine woes
- From: Julia in MN <jaccola-AT-chartermi-DOT-net@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:50:11 -0600
Is your sample exactly the same fabric and batting as your quilt border?
I had that kind of trouble when I was attempting to quilt a water-color quilt that was made with a gridded fusible interfacing and pin-basted, using a poly batting.. I finally gave up and put it away for a while (months, maybe years, I don't really remember). I finally got it out again and frog-stitched the quilting that I had done, un-sandwiched it, and washed the top in an attempt to soften it up a bit. Then I spray-basted it to a cotton batting and tried again. This time I also made sure I used a jeans needle; I'm not sure what I used the first time -- probably a universal needle. This time it worked just fine -- same machine, same thread. However, I can't say what made the difference. Was it the washing? Or the batting? Or the spray basting? Or the needle? I changed a lot of variables there, but maybe there is something there that will suggest something else you might try.
Julia in MN
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Anne Rogers wrote:
So, I've been having this problem that when quilting, my sewing machine skips stitches, then eventually the upper thread snaps. So it went in for a check/repair. Apparently they adjusted some things, but there was nothing specifically wrong..
Today was my first chance to try quilting with it again, it had worked fine for piecing, as it had before I took it in. It was skipping within inches, it's driving me nuts, as I can't reliably replicate it, sometimes I can do 12 inches or so on a sample sandwich and stop because I've just run out room, other times it literally won't take the first stitch, I've sat there with it turning the hand wheel to pull the bobbin thread up and it just doesn't come up (not all that uncommon in the past if I forgot to put the foot down, so I would always check that).
I tried working through from a point a knew it worked, just changing one thing at a time, I started with my regular piecing thread etc and sewed a couple of squares together, fine, as you would expect. Next, I switched threads, still fine, so onto sewing on a quilt sandwich, sew a straight line, needs a slight tension adjustment, which is to be expected, still fine. Now, switch to the hopping foot and drop the feed dogs, try on a sample, fine. Next pick up the border I was planning to quilt, skip skip skip! Reverse, what can the difference be between my sample sandwich and my border, clearly nothing much as this time it's skipping straight away on the sample.
Seems like this machine just really does not like free motion, but that what it doesn't like isn't straight forward. I'm going to have to take it back, but I'm mad, I really want to get the quilt I'm working on done, I have other things I want to do. It will be next Friday at the earliest to get the machine back, but I don't have all that much hope it will work.
Grrrrr
Anne
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