pogo2go

Are your feed dogs up or down? If you are using the quilting foot they should be up and if you are free motion quilting they should be down. I never remember this until after the frustration.
Good luck.

Mkotch

I know that everybody - and I mean everybody! - says to put the feed dogs down when freemotion quilting, but I have better luck with them up. And I don't go fast either. I find that I get sloppy when I go too fast. And everybody says to go fast, too! You have to do what works for you.

bjnicholson

Ditto!!

GrammaNancy

Oh my, I am glad you solved your problem, because that wall hanging is absolutely beautiful. Love it.
Nancy

MarySews

It is very easy to put the needle in backwards and it can cause big problems,
Mary

Hindsight

I'm glad everything worked out for you. You did a lovely job on the wall hanging. :D

Pat G

I even considered that but the needle wouldn't go in at all unless I had it facing the right way.
I have no trouble FMQ with the feed dogs down but I might try them up just to see what happens.

Ada Shiela

Sorry to hear of problem with needles, but are you using the correct pressure foot and is the needle in the right position (ie, left, right or centre?)?

After breaking 4 in a week recently as soon as I went to sew, I realized that I had ignored machine telling me to change feet because needle was set to left position and kept hitting the foot, I decided to remove the foot adapter every time I turned the machine off until I remembered to double check everything before sewing :roll: Good luck with next try.

Ada Shiela

Pat, you're neither dumb or persistent, but quite normal. Determination always wins, even though it takes us a while to catch on to what we might be doing wrongly, eventually we get it right.

Just noticed you've been using hot glue for attaching flowers which would contribute to thickness if you go over the lines!!

My Brother 4000D machine tells me when I haven't put presser foot down and will not sew until I've done that.

Love your avatar and the bouquet is bright and beautiful.

Pat G

I'm so sorry but you are confusing two different projects. My FMQ was on a 10" pad. I came across the pattern recently which made coasters. I enlarged it to make a hot mat. This mat had a layer of Insul Brite along with sev. layers of fabric so that contributed to the thickness which ended up being my problem. This problem didn't occur on the flower basket. I have worked on another pc. since & had no prob. Boy, did I feel dumb but so many of you said that was too many layers.

I wish my machine gave me signals when things were not right. For instance I was making a curtain for my laundry rm. door window today & I ran out of bobbin thread. I hate that since you get thru a whole line of stitching with no thread.

I hear all of you talking about the features your machines have so I'll know what to look for if & when I update my mach. It cost so much, that isn't likely to be soon.