AngelinaMaria

I am sewing rows together of a hexegon quilt so at the intersection, there is quite a bit of fabric (I did press the seams open when piecing the triangles but it still results in essentially double the amount of fabric at a regular intersection).

My Babylock Espire all but came to a jammed stop at the thickest part of the seam intersection. This happened over and over again on the first two rows I was sewing. I would have to raise and lower the presser foot a few times and essentially pull the fabric through to get past the intersection. I was really, really dreading if I would have to rip out any seams as there were probably over 20 stitches per inch over the intersection areas.

Afterwards, I took off my needle plate and vacuumed the feed dog and lower area. There was a fair amount of link and fuzz down there. However, it didn't really help the performance. Should I be changing the presser foot pressure (I think it is on the normal setting of 4) or making other adjustments?

This seems like a real performance failure as I'm only using very moderate weight cotton fabric and like I said, I did press the seams open.