Originally Posted by
Boonedox
How many of you heard your mother say, "don't touch that tension"? I need to get over my fear of moving that little knob
I don't blame her, I'm sure her machine (late 1960's) was temperamental.
I say that ALL the time to my pupils, anything goes awry with their machine their hands automatically seem to go to the thread tension. Like someone has already pointed out modern machines are very good at sorting the tension out themselves. I very rarely have ever touched my tension since I first set it I don't need to, as my Mum always said "Don't touch anything which isn't broke!"