Why won't my Crescendo sew over thick seams? How can I get it to work?
I am sewing together flying geese, point to point, so there is quite a bit of thickness for the machine to sew over. However, you spend top dollar for a high-end machine that is touted as being able to sew through 8 layers of denim (or something similar to this) and my Crescendo can not even sew over Moda regular cotton flying geese.
I have my presser foot pressure on 3 and my stitch is straight stitch at 1.4 length (I am doing it short as I am pressing the seam open and don't want to see the thread in the seam). My machine comes up to the seam and then gets lodged on the peak where the seams all meet and it will not budge unless I very forcefully pull or move around the block. In doing so, the seam line ends up very wonky and I end up having around 30 stitches in a 1/2 inch section. I've played around with the presser foot pressure and stitch length (although I need it to be short) and nothing has helped. The only thing that really works is raising the presser foot and forcefully pulling the block through.
Is there anything I should be trying to successfully sew these blocks together? I haven't tried the walking foot yet (I actually haven't even taken it out of the box and I've had the machine a year now!!). Is that what I need to do? Thanks.