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Machine quilting on portable sewing machine

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Old 09-21-2010, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by cjomomma
Have you checked the tension on the machine? If it is too tight the thread will break. Oh and everything that Ktbb said too.
Tension on a machine is a difficult thing for me to figure out and I think most manual were not written by someone who sews. My understanding with free motion quilting was that your tensions should be at 0. I must be terribly misinformed because that is not what you all seem to be talking about. So the steps for machine quilting are:
Feed dogs down, Width at neutral and length at 0. Tension for top stitch at..... whatever looks good?
Sounds like I don't know what I am doing!! lol
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