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12-09-2012, 04:54 AM
#51
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: silsbee TX
Posts: 149
wow you all spend a lot on this machine. I got a Brother last month or may be the month before. I runs very good just done a quilt I could not handle very will it was big . But the Brother had no trouble with it at all. It was a bout $200 I love it good luck on finding the machine you wont it took me over a month to pick one out.
12-09-2012, 06:00 AM
#52
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Carlisle, PA
Posts: 1,964
it is NEVER a good idea to run over pins - my mom taught me how to sew when I was about 7 years old and instilled that rule into me very well. I still have her beautiful old Featherweight that I learned on, and I'd never run it over a pin. The same goes for my newer machines...please try to break that habit - you're only asking for trouble otherwise.
12-09-2012, 06:11 AM
#53
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tippy-top of a ridge in WV
Posts: 6,355
This is exactly why I keep my old Elna, bought new in 1964 and cost what was, in those days, a fortune. I hauled it out two years ago to sew up a pillow cover for my grandaughter that was heavy brocade and the center top was a latch-hook picture on that heavy weave. I always used pins and flew over them after buying this machine. Now, with a computerized machine, I had to re-train very seriously. I still use pins on occasion, but make sure to sew slowly and pull them before I get to them.
12-09-2012, 09:19 AM
#54
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Texas
Posts: 2,811
I used to not worry about sewing over pins until I hit one dead on. The pin was sliced in half, but the shaft that holds the needle & goes up & down bent. Repair cost was as much as a new machine! I learned to slow down a bit & pull those pins out before I get to the, I have Janomes & they stop on a dime, so you can stop even when speeding!
They've saved me a few times.
12-10-2012, 12:40 PM
#59
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Posts: 1,389
Originally Posted by quiltstringz
You have to remember that with any computerized machine you chance throwing the timing out if you hit a pin.
Try pinning in the seam allowance rather than across the seam ... in other words the head of the pin would be facing you and the point facing the machine's needle instead of left to right.
