What is causing these "birds nests" under my fabric??? Please help!
#12
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: rural SE Georgia
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My Janome does not like different thread in the bobbin than I have in the top.
Also it doesn't like cheap thread, so I buy quality on sale.
I also clean my bobbin area after each bobbin and it helps. Change the needle and make sure it is the correct one for the fabric.
Also it doesn't like cheap thread, so I buy quality on sale.
I also clean my bobbin area after each bobbin and it helps. Change the needle and make sure it is the correct one for the fabric.
#14
Originally Posted by deema
I agree - also, do a thorough cleaning and check your tension.
Originally Posted by donnajean
Change needle & rethread both spool & bobbin - usually works.
Originally Posted by DeniseP
This seems to be happening more and more lately until yesterday I wanted to go into the cellar and get my husband's biggest hammer and do something I proabably would have regretted, but at the same time would have been sooooooo satisfying.
#17
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lake Villa, Illinois
Posts: 278
I just took a free motion quilting class from Frieda Anderson and she pulls her bobbin thread to the top, which I have done, but then she doesn't go back and forth and cut it, but leaves it to the top and then uses cheater needles to re-nest those tails. I just ordered the needles yesterday and am quilting a piece to use them on. Hope that helps with your nesting problem.
#19
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: North of Atlanta, Georgia
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If the hammer doesn't work. . . when you begin sewing at the edge. hold your thread so the bobbin doesn't munch it up. Sometimes that happens to me at the beginning if I don't hold the thread. My machine is really old and I love it. I have a new machine but I keep it covered up so she doesn't see it.
#20
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Keller, TX
Posts: 1,937
This problem is usually the thread has come out of the take up lever or your pressure foot is not down.
Rethreading should resolve the problem with take up lever. What type of machine are you using?
Did any of the posted suggestions help?
Diana in Tx
Rethreading should resolve the problem with take up lever. What type of machine are you using?
Did any of the posted suggestions help?
Diana in Tx
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