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Old 09-29-2016, 04:20 PM
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Bjbaxter
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Philomath,Ore
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Unhappy Machine is "gathering" stitches.

I am not sure why my Bernina 440 has started to "gather" my stitches. I just finished quilting a quilt using both FMQ and straight line with my walking foot, and had no problems. I went back to my normal setting of 4 on my upper tension, cleaned out the fuzz under the stitching plate, am using Aurifil in top and bobbin with a 90 needle (didn't change the needle from quilting). I was chain piecing today and the squares started gathering. My setting is at 2.4 (factory setting) and I don't know what to do to fix this. The internet was no help with this problem. Any ideas?
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