Thread: Oh, Halp! Fabric won't feed on my Bernina!

I recently bought a used Bernina 1005, Matilda. She was sewing along beautifully, and then suddenly, the fabric stopped feeding through. The feed dogs are still coming up and the presser foot is making contact with the feed dogs, but the fabric will not feed through. If I pull it through, it will stitch without bunching up. What have I done to my poor Bernina?!?!?

I just had this same problem, also on my Bernina 1005, that I've had for about 20 years. The answer from "seweasy" was my problem. I had lint clogging something up somewhere. I couldn't easily open up the machine but just kept digging with my brush and using canned air and lint kept coming out. I ran the machine at some point and could see that the feed dogs were now going up and down and also more back and forth than they had been. So I put it all back together and it worked! Yay! Thanks seweasy!

Check your thread also. I once had a loop get caught on the feet and it gave me much problems.

Yay! That's great to hear.