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Originally Posted by tomilu
Originally Posted by denise d
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by denise d
Help, clearly my internet search skills are lacking.
Since it is a new belt... I figured I will let it sit for a week or so and see if it stretches.
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The more you use the treadle you will find you may need to shorten it several times. Yes, it will stretch some more. Hang in there, girl. You will be victorious!!! :lol:
Thanks... I am guessing that it may take a few days, weeks, months years...LOL but hey... no sense in being good at everything when you first start.;-)
Less than a year sewing, 2nd week owning a treadle... guess I should slow down and enjoy the process. :banghead:
Cool! only sewing less than a year and you got yourself a treadle!
To start treadling, you help the machine along by turning the hand wheel ( kind of like a push). It takes some time getting use to that and each machine acts differently. Some machines work smoothly and others gallop along. You can always loosen the wheel and just treadle without sewing for awhile to help stretch the belt.
Funny, that was what I have been trying. More using it as a hand crank, to figure out how my feet are supposed to move. I did also try removing the belt and treadling it, that worked fine, I think the extra tension messes me up a bit. ;)