old lady quilter

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.

Mdegenhart

You need a single needle hole plate for straight stitch. My Janome almost drove me insane until I got one.

Mdegenhart

Here's a link

http://www.pfaff.com/kr/3482_3427.html

Tartan

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.

old lady quilter

Thanks a lot

Dolphyngyrl

is it a 9mm machine, they might be right on the stitch plate. This tends to happen more with 9mm machines

Dina

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.

Dina

Aria

You can also use a piece of paper as a starter. Start with your fabric slightly on the paper. You'll have to tear it off when you're done, but this always works for me.

BellaBoo

Start the stitch further down the seam then backstitch. This works for me and it's best to backstitch at the start and end of a seam anyway.

gale

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.