Machine pulls fabric into feed dogs, help
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Machine pulls fabric into feed dogs, help
I have a Pfaff 2056 and am piecing a quilt and the machine keeps pulling the fabric into the feed dogs, mostly when I start. I use a starter strip but it still happens. What am I doing wrong? I changed needles and cleaned the bobbin case for lint but it is still doing this. Its only 2 layers of fabric and light weight.
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The trade off for the fancy stitches on our new machines, was a larger hole to accommodate the needle changing position. If your machine consistently eats the fabric even with a leader, than a single hole plate is your best solution.
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This may not help, but I sometimes have that problem also, and I just recently found that if I started sewing with the needle in the down position, it happened less often. You might give it a try. I have a Pfaff 2. When I am sewing light weight fabrics it happens more often. I use a starter too.
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I use leaders and enders. I've never used my single hole plate. I just know if I do, I'll forget and try to zig zag with it and break my machine. Leaders and enders has solves the fabric-sucking problem for me.
http://quiltville.com/leadersenders.shtml
eta: never mind-I see you already tried this or something like it.
http://quiltville.com/leadersenders.shtml
eta: never mind-I see you already tried this or something like it.
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