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it could be several things, some ideas are answered above. From personal experience, I had a dragging feeling when I started to do FMQ on my machine. I discovered that the quilt was hanging down over the sewing table and creating a tugging action as I tried to move the quilt around. Hope your problem is as simple as all those discribed above. They are all easy fixes and with practice comes confidence!
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Originally Posted by Deecee
Apart from gloves, I also use a Supreme Slider. Its a thin teflon sheet that you lay over the machine bed and your fabric glides more freely.
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A SUpreme Slider will take care of the problem.
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If you have some gardening gloves that fit well and have the little rubber bumps on the fingers, you might try those to see if it makes a difference. The sewing ones work better, but you could use those until you can buy some.
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I raise the pressure on my presser foot all the way up. lower the feed dogs, wear gloves, mostly gardening gloves that have little rubber dots, sometimes a supreme slider, not real wild about it, and use my darning foot. I had to oil my darning foot but, I've made lots of quilts using that foot.
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When I took a FMQ class, one of the exercises we did was to try our machine on all tension settings JUST to see which setting works best. Play on a scrap sandwich and mark the settings, that way you can go back to it later.
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I hate gloves, so I use the rubbery shelf liner instead of gloves. I just cut two peaces the size of my hand & that works great for me & are easy to move around your project. Also you don't have to keep putting on & taking off the gloves.
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There's also the quilting halo. Here's a post on it - http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-14693-1.htm
I've used one a few times and really like it - my hands and shoulders don't bother me as much after quilting for awhile |
Originally Posted by Kat Sews
If you want to try gloves without going out and buying some, try using a pair of clean gardening gloves with the little dots on them. This is what I use all the time.
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Hancock Fabrics carry them. They might be on sale today along with an extra 10% off coupon. The coupon is on facebook and maybe even their website. Call them first to be sure you store has them.
Maybe the dollar store ones work too though. |
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