My new favorite quilting tool that saved my sanity
I had been having a problem with my longarm skipping stitches and thread breaking for about two weeks now. I have changed the needle 4 times, checked all of my upper and lower tension and pretty much everything I could think of.
Today, I decided to thread a piece of dental floss in the needle to help make sure I was getting my needle pointing in the right direction as well as all the way up in the needle shaft. I pulled up on both ends of the floss to hold the needle as high in the shaft as possible before I finished turning the screw holding it in place.
S H A Z A M ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
Apparently my needle wasn't seated as high as possible which was causing my skipped stitches and thread breakage.
I had already been searching on Google trying to find a Longarm dealer in my area that might take it in as a trade.
Dental floss saved my life today!!!