When I first noticed it, I put in a new needle. Which was really a no go to begin with because, the snags are not where the fabric seams are being sewn, they are in the middle of the fabric where there is no sewing. Not even next to or near a sewn line or area. I didn't notice them to begin with as it was the front of what is /was going to be a shirt. I had just cut it out and was attaching the back to the front. Note: this is labeled as 100% quilting cotton. Purchased from a bolt within 6 to 9 months ago and kept in a closed cupboard on a shelf.
It isn't a pulled thread across the fabric from a sewn seam/line either. It is a snag one thread wide and one or two threads long and a small hole forms if you try to ease out the snag, or even a small hole with the snag to begin with. it was just so frustrating as I really liked the fabric and was making a shirt out of each color, one of the pink daisies and one of the green vine leaves. Both fabrics had snags. - some snags appeared after little handling of the fabric, so were already on there. -- little handling is cutting it, folding it, unfolding it and starting to sew the first seam to piece it together.
Actual Examples - in a piece of unsewn fabric, probably a yard wide by width of fabric, in one area about 5 " square, there were actually 7 snags like this --- in another area, that same size there were 3 snags. In another area, that same size again 3 snags, and another area 1 snag -- all with growing holes under the snags. This is what I mean. it was like the fabric was disintegrating, only starting to do so with snags.
It seems like where the color print is, that part/of some of the thread is humped up some (raised a little) and just becomes an eventual snag.
Last edited by quiltsfor; 11-21-2023 at 11:30 AM.