Metallic thread nightmare!!
#32
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Absolutly try the Sewer's Aid from Joanns....its in a small bottle and rather inexpensive, run a thin line of the liquid across your spool. I had problems just exactly like you are stating and the sewers aid solved them. And of course you need a metallic needle.
#34
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Obviously no one read my previous post. knitsew, you are right. Sewers Aid is a silicone lubricant. It will infiltrate down into the bobbin system of your machine. All of the newer machines are self-lubricating. If you have an electronic machine (computerized) the sewers aid will interfere with the various sensors in the machine. It can eventually migrate onto the boards of the machine and RUIN it.
#35
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I am making a Christmas tree skirt out of polyester satin and I wanted to put embroidery designs all around in gold & silver metallic. I put a new metlallic needle in my machine (Bernina series 8 - 830) threaded it with new superior metallic thread & (drum roll please). No matter what speed, which way the thread came off the spool, the location of the needle (moved it to right & left), or the tension settings, I kept having breakage. Same results with Sulky & Guttermann metallic thread. So after messing with this for the better part of 3 days, I gave up and am using silver & gold rayon sulky thread. So far, no breakage and I am on 6 out of 12.
So no metallic on this 60" round Christmas skirt. I may purchase some of the yenmet thread on my next project. I'll let you know what happens. Oh, the skirt is going to be beautiful & it doesn't miss the metallic thread.
So no metallic on this 60" round Christmas skirt. I may purchase some of the yenmet thread on my next project. I'll let you know what happens. Oh, the skirt is going to be beautiful & it doesn't miss the metallic thread.
#36
I have just finished a very simple table runner for my DIL for Christmas. The fabric has gold thru out so I figured oh I would use gold thread. I am using a decorative stitch that kinda looks like a snowflake, and I am about ready to jump off a bridge. About every 3rd snowflake the thread breaks. Just the gold thread. I have rethreaded til I am blue in the face. Is there a trick to using this, I am sure I have used it before, but never experienced a problem like this. Its almost as if its shredding. Any suggestions?
Thanks so much!!!
Thanks so much!!!
#39
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Pikesville, MD
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A topstitch needle is the same as a metallic needle. Ask Joann's if they have that.
The idea is that the thread should be as relaxed as possible. First, I tell the thread to relax :-), then I try to relax myself. You need as little friction as possible--I don't have the thread run through the guides that are just above the needle--just let it come straight down to the needle--this reduces the friction some, as does the larger eye needle.
The idea is that the thread should be as relaxed as possible. First, I tell the thread to relax :-), then I try to relax myself. You need as little friction as possible--I don't have the thread run through the guides that are just above the needle--just let it come straight down to the needle--this reduces the friction some, as does the larger eye needle.
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