Tension Woes with Feathers
I'm doing my first feather border and having trouble with it.
For starters, the front is black and the back is orange, so I am trying to balance that. Throughout the rest of the quilting on the top, I haven't had any trouble with thread colours showing up where they aren't supposed to, after doing tests on my samples.
It seems. as soon as I got to the borders, all heck broke loose.
I've got orange on the black, black on the orange, eyelashes on the back and a general mess.
When I do it on my test sample it works out fine.
I have SITD'd one side of the border and basted the other 1/8th of an inch so it is pretty stable.
I have re-threaded, changed bobbins and re-filled bobbbins, oiled the hook and looked for dust. (It's a Tiara Mid Arm)
It started out great down one long side of feathers so I stopped checking and by the last half, I'll have to pull it all out.
I've used Jamie Wallen's test for bobbin tension.
I'm at a loss!
Help!
Watson