i have not noticed any difference with my stitch quality on batiks.
i do use a bobbin genie . i put one shortly after i got my machine and since everything is going well, i have left it in.
i did recently have a frustrating stretch but found the culprit was my bobbin winder. i had played around with its tension but then watched an entire bobbin wind and discovered the thread popping out of the disc. then i had a dickens of a time getting the winders tension back again.
nice to see all of these solutions to try. it is good to have a full list of problem solvers to go to when things go wrong.
forgot to say that i am using a sweet sixteen sit down machine and every thread that takes my fancy but have not tried glide yet.
Last edited by coffeecozy; 02-06-2016 at 03:10 AM.