To hop or not to hop!
12-26-2017, 06:25 AM
#21
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Location: Ont. Canada
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When using a " floating " foot, l need it set pretty low to the fabric sandwich to prevent skips. But then it gets " hung up" on seam intersections. So l now use the hopping foot. I find that it even helps my stitches stay even...by listening to it's sound, l regulate speed of machine/ hands much better, getting very even stitching. Arrange the quilt so most of it's weight is on the sewing table ( or set up an ironing board even with your sewing surface) to help with managing the quilt. Most importantly, having the machine sit down in a table , rather than on top of it, works best.
04-01-2018, 08:51 AM
#22
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Hi I had exact same issue with modified foot.
I also followed leahday video on how to modify hopping foot to a floating foot. Same thing... breaking thread and skipped stitches! My juki tl2010 came with 2free motion hopping feet so I switched back to a hopping foot and it works.... I just really wanted floating foot for the lesser distraction of the hopping foot.. i am getting used to the hopping foot but it definitely makes it so I can't travel stitch very well. Did you ever find a better solution??
Originally Posted by sherber
Hi everyone!
I hope that this is a topic that has not been talked to death on this board.. I've found a lot of threads about the hopping foot on the Juki TL series machines, but not really much mention of my particular issue..
I had been learning to FMQ on my Janome with a floating foot and doing great, and I decided to get a Juki TL-2200 QVP mini (pretty much a TL-2010) for the larger harp space. It's such a nice machine, but free motion quilting on it has been a trial.
First, I tried the hopping foot. I did not like it. So, I modified the hopping foot following Leah Day's instructions. Perfect! Except that using this foot is where my problems with skipped stitches and thread breakage began. I decided to buy the Janome free motion foot set that fits this machine. It was brilliant! Except that I still had thread breakage. I adjusted the tension and switched from Mettler to Aurifil, and my problems got a little better... but they're still there. Sometimes I sit down to quilt and the tension still doesn't seem quite right, or the thread will break occasionally.
So tonight I decided to sit down with the hopping foot. (This was originally brought on by machine envy- I was watching a review of Leah Day's Juki TL-2200 long arm sit down machine and she mentioned only being able to use a hopping foot with it and having to get used to it. So I thought, maybe I should just get used to my hopping foot so someday when I get a long arm I'm used to it!) My tension looked great and I had no thread breakage problems. Am I doing something wrong with my non-hopping feet, or does my machine just work better with the hopping foot and I need to just get used to it? Has anyone else had this experience?
Another question - I've noticed with the hopping foot that it kind of grips the quilt sandwich between the foot and the machine bed. It takes more pulling to move the quilt than it does with the floating foot. I think this is what I find most frustrating about the hopping foot - it's harder to move the quilt. Is this just the way the hopping foot works? Would it be helped by a supreme slider so that my quilt doesn't catch on the slots where the feed dogs are?
tl;dr - my machine likes the hopping foot better, do I just need to suck it up and learn to love it?
Thanks for reading my essay!
-Cheryl
I hope that this is a topic that has not been talked to death on this board.. I've found a lot of threads about the hopping foot on the Juki TL series machines, but not really much mention of my particular issue..
I had been learning to FMQ on my Janome with a floating foot and doing great, and I decided to get a Juki TL-2200 QVP mini (pretty much a TL-2010) for the larger harp space. It's such a nice machine, but free motion quilting on it has been a trial.
First, I tried the hopping foot. I did not like it. So, I modified the hopping foot following Leah Day's instructions. Perfect! Except that using this foot is where my problems with skipped stitches and thread breakage began. I decided to buy the Janome free motion foot set that fits this machine. It was brilliant! Except that I still had thread breakage. I adjusted the tension and switched from Mettler to Aurifil, and my problems got a little better... but they're still there. Sometimes I sit down to quilt and the tension still doesn't seem quite right, or the thread will break occasionally.
So tonight I decided to sit down with the hopping foot. (This was originally brought on by machine envy- I was watching a review of Leah Day's Juki TL-2200 long arm sit down machine and she mentioned only being able to use a hopping foot with it and having to get used to it. So I thought, maybe I should just get used to my hopping foot so someday when I get a long arm I'm used to it!) My tension looked great and I had no thread breakage problems. Am I doing something wrong with my non-hopping feet, or does my machine just work better with the hopping foot and I need to just get used to it? Has anyone else had this experience?
Another question - I've noticed with the hopping foot that it kind of grips the quilt sandwich between the foot and the machine bed. It takes more pulling to move the quilt than it does with the floating foot. I think this is what I find most frustrating about the hopping foot - it's harder to move the quilt. Is this just the way the hopping foot works? Would it be helped by a supreme slider so that my quilt doesn't catch on the slots where the feed dogs are?
tl;dr - my machine likes the hopping foot better, do I just need to suck it up and learn to love it?
Thanks for reading my essay!
-Cheryl
04-01-2018, 03:16 PM
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2017
Posts: 188
I haven't read all of the posts but I will tell you that when I started FMQing, I was using a Pfaff (new Pfaff). I could not FMQ without skipping stitches no matter what I did. Dealer (LQS) told me to use a larger hole needle (16). I did that and I still had issues. When we built our summer home, which is 450 miles from our neighborhood home, I bought a Brothers INNOV-is 2000. I am able to FMQ with no problems. I was using the hopping foot and then changed it as Leah suggested. Either way my Brothers is fine. Just may be a fluke with that machine. IMHO.
04-01-2018, 03:33 PM
#24
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Join Date: Sep 2016
Posts: 547
i have to have a non-hopping foot, the gattling gun sound of the hopping foot drives me absolutely nuts!. I also sew in a public area of the house and other occupants also can't deal with the sound of the hopping foot. I haven't had any issues on my Juki 2010 with thread breaking unless I go thru curves too quickly, which I am bad about doing. Still learning.
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