Fortunately I worked it out before completely losing it.
After finishing a rag quilt for my nephew, I thoroughly cleaned my machine to get rid of the residual lint. Last night, I started a new project and wasted quite a bit of thread when the fabric was not advancing. I disassembled the machine again, checked to make sure that the feed dogs were not blocked and could raise and lower correctly. Still nothing, more thread wasted. Then I happened to look at the stitch length indicator. Yep - set to a big fat 0 as the last stitches done were to lock the threads. So, fixed that and created a very impressive birds nest. Disentangled the thread from the bobbin mechanism and started over. Fortunately before starting the next bird's nest I asked myself why the tension would be so terrible - hmmm - could it be that the machine is not correctly threaded AT ALL. The nearest I can figure is that when I finished winding bobbins I laid the thread over the top of the machine and when I sat down to get started again, simply threaded the needle, assuming I'd run through the other important contact points. All's well that ends well. I did sew 10 strip sets last night for the 9-patch challenge that I'm participating in. And I was able to solve the problem myself. Cheers, K |
I understand what you are saying. I have done things like that and it has taken me hours to fix.
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YAH, !!
Somthing goes wrong here, and I do the same!! Yeikes, most of the time I just need to plug it in... :) |
Isn't it surprising that each of us thinks our errors are unique?
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Originally Posted by needles3thread
Isn't it surprising that each of us thinks our errors are unique?
We all do it. And I did learn from reading here that the birds nest on the bottom was a top thread tension problem. So I'm very thankful to have this resource. Cheers, K |
I think we all go through this at least once. I am glad you worked it out! I am always cleaning my machine and yes, I often mis-thread a machine.
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Learned something new, I didn't know that a birds nest was caused from a top thread tension. Thanks
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Originally Posted by CorgiNole
Originally Posted by needles3thread
Isn't it surprising that each of us thinks our errors are unique?
We all do it. And I did learn from reading here that the birds nest on the bottom was a top thread tension problem. So I'm very thankful to have this resource. Cheers, K |
I am happy to hear that you got it all worked out and are happily sewing now :D:D:D
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I like to blame my sewing Gremilins when things are done incorrectly in my room LOL. Glad you figured it out. I do not like those Bird nests. LOL
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