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11-01-2010, 07:17 AM

#11

sewmom

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when i got my new Janome 6600 and i was trying to do a serpentine stitch-it would sew a stitch or two and then sew in place. I had tried this stitch when i got it b/c it was one of the reasons i wanted this machine. well it turns out i had the wrong throat plate on the machine. i had forgotten that there was two plates. DUH!!! I even took it back to the dealer and she set it up and looked at it and told me i had the wrong plate. i was so embarrassed.

11-01-2010, 07:21 AM

#12

Conniequilts

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lol--that is sooooooooooooo me!

11-01-2010, 07:22 AM

#13

dunster

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Quote:

Originally Posted by featherweight

I bet we won't make the same mistake twice!!!

I'm afraid you'd lose that bet. :oops:

11-01-2010, 08:27 AM

#14

littlehud

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Location: SW Iowa

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I threaded my Pfaff wrong the other day. I've been using if for a year so how did I forget how to do it. Just a senior moment I guess. At least the machine got a good cleaning out of it.

11-01-2010, 08:31 AM

#15

Chasing Hawk

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Same issue with my embroidery machine. I was ready to send it in and be charged $124.00 to fix the tension. I found a tiny piece of lint stuck in the bobbin case.

11-01-2010, 08:33 AM

#16

wolfkitty

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Location: Elmira, NY

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Quote:

Originally Posted by amandasgramma

ROL!!! Yip --- been there, done that!

I had to take mine in for 'repair' to discover my screwup. (Here I would insert the little, red-faced, smiley face, if I knew how.)

11-01-2010, 08:43 AM

#17

jemma

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my pfaff would only sew a few stitches--did the full bit needle change de fluff etc then noticed i had the single pattern button on --yep we have all been there

11-01-2010, 08:45 AM

#18

featherweight

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Location: Westminster, Co

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At least when this happens we have to take time to clean them. Guess that is there way of saying "Hey I need cleaned up and out!!!"

11-01-2010, 08:49 AM

#19

CorgiNole

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Join Date: Jun 2010

Location: Chapel Hill

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It took me quite a lot of snarled and broken thread to figure out that to correctly mount the bobbin in my "new to me" Bernina, I needed to open the little latch. Not sure how I got it to work correctly the first two or three times I changed the bobbin.

I later had a moment of heart failure when it would not advance the fabric at all - checked that I didn't have it set to wind bobbins, moved the feed dogs up and down, dismantled and re-cleaned... then remembered that I had set the stitch length to 0 in order to end a seam. DUH. Runs great now!

Cheers, K