Have you ever had eyelashes happen?
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Have you ever had eyelashes happen?
I was clicking right along with my free motion quilting, meandering and happy until I ran out of bobbin. I tied off my thread and turned the quilt over to the back to tuck my threads underneath and found this...
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Now I have to take out miles of stitches. When I tried to figure out what caused it I saw that the thread had come partially out of the first slot the thread goes into on the machine. Can that do something like this? Really? I'm so frustrated! (Sorry it's blurry, I don't know why on that either lol. It's a bad day) but I have eyelashes on the back.
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Now I have to take out miles of stitches. When I tried to figure out what caused it I saw that the thread had come partially out of the first slot the thread goes into on the machine. Can that do something like this? Really? I'm so frustrated! (Sorry it's blurry, I don't know why on that either lol. It's a bad day) but I have eyelashes on the back.
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all my early quilting (and some of the not-so-early) had eyelashes--it's a tension issue. also are you moving it faster than the machine is stitching? if so you are pulling it--that was usually my problem with eyelashes on the curves.
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If you missed one of the guides for the thread, it can make your tension off and can cause eyelashes. I've gotten eyelashes from tension issues and from moving too fast especially on curves. It always sucks. I had to take out a lot on the last coat I made because of tension issues and eyelashing.
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