Light fix.
 

My light strip sticky wouldn't stick anymore. And when I was machine quilting the quilt top would push it off the machine when bunched up. I found the solution that works great. The light stays in place and no tape or glue stuff needed. Two elastic bands did the trick.

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The thread should be behind the bar going into the tension. Correct way is three times behind the bar. Don't think that is the way it should be threaded. LOL

I'm going to buy a package of white bands next time I'm in Staples. It will look a little more classy.

Good idea thinking outside the box .

That reminds me of the piece of cloth people used to put on their machines to hold pins, back in the old days. Glad you found a solution.

mine worked best with two winds around the bar. whatever keeps the tension right is the right way to thread it.

Great idea but be carefully to watch them because they might wear out with any heat generated from the sewing machine. They may just snap both or just one.

I haven't felt any heat at all on the machine body. I will buy the better bands though.



I don't use the bar unless I use mono poly thread. The thread cutter works better not using the bar to put tension on the thread so I use it as a thread guide. Also I leave the needle up position when using the thread cutter. A Brother tech gave me lots of tips and all the yes you can with this machine. It is my favorite machine.

Quilters are innovative at fixing problems for sure. I like your rubberband approach. Anyone can do that and we can't all screw or hammer or make new holes in stuff. :)

I am curious....Which Brother model is this that you guys love so much?

Mine is the Brother Nouvelle 1500s. I won it when it first came out. They are usually on sale for around $500 now. It is a straight stitch machine, all mechanical. I can take the housing off easy and I know what is inside, all metal.

Did you consider a strip of white fabric with some velcro on the ends. No fear of snapping then. Maniac Quilter is right - eventually they will snap and fly (if only from old age) and fly off where ever. Hopefully not toward your eyes but when sitting at the sewing machine they are pretty close to where the action will be. Unbelieveably, in my lifetime, I've been hit in the eye with an air born pencil (glasses were in my hand being cleaned) and a closing car door which knocked my glasses off and the corner of the door top hit my eye. No permenant damage done either time - doctors both said I was really, really lucky.

What a clever idea! When I first saw your picture I thought you had used the plastic cable ties:

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We use those & electrical tape & duct tape for everything around my house. :)

I found a place online to have custom bungee cords made. I have two coming that will be thin and white with small white connectors. Duct tape and bungee cords will fix about anything!

Good idea. I glued mine to a Popsicle stick and then reattached it with strong carpet tape. It lasted about a year. I recently broke the Popsicle stick while quilting a large quilt. I am looking for alternative lighting.

What bar do you mean and how do you "wind" it three times behind the bar? Brain is over-heated this morning I guess. We are not used to this much heat and humidity here in Maine :-(

I didn't say it should be wound behind the bar, I said go behind the horizontal bar, as in going up and down. This is how I thread this machine:

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The new slimline led lamps are great but my sewing tables have no edges to clip it to. Floor lamps get in my way and are a bother. My machine sits under a window which gets natural light all day but I still need light under the needle. Lighting has always been my frustration when sewing.

They do have those tiny lights that you can attach to your machine. An expensive one is $50, but I've seen them much cheaper at around $10, by Dritz, I think. I believe the use an LED light in them.

My mother always said, "necessity is the mother of invention". She was always good at figuring out to make something work better or how to fix it in an 'out of the box' way.

Necessity really is the mother of invention. Great solution.