Originally Posted by
crewsemj
I haven't posted in a long time. First things first---Charlee enjoy the GBaby now because they grow up way way to fast!!! I have been playing with my 15-91 again today trying to figure out why it hangs up on the bobbin case. I so want to FMQ with it because it has a beautiful stitch both front and back. I've checked that I have it threaded right, the needle is the right one and it is in the right way plus threaded from right to left. Sometimes it will sew for just a few stitches before it hangs up and then sometimes it will go for a couple of feet or more. Maybe this is the reason the guy sold it to me for $20.00!!
Am posting a picture of the bobbin with yarn (so maybe you can see it) laying on it and wrapped around the finger that sticks out. This is what it looks like after it locks up. If anyone can give me an idea of what to try next I would appreciate it. Thanks! I've also messed with the upper tension which seems to make no difference.
Somebody about 2000 pages ago had a similar problem, and the finger was bent out ever so slightly. He/she compared it to another and found the problem. Seems like it was somebody from Mississippi for some reason.
Charlee, enjoy that grandbaby. My kids are in no hurry to make me a grandma....I will be the oldest mamaw on the planet is what I usually tell them when it comes up. Love the stories about addictions, cures, learning to sew, and such. Growing up, I had a knack for construction, and enjoyed helping my daddy work on building things, or work on cars, or whatever, and my mama taught me to sew, which is constuction with cloth. My sister, who is only 13 months older than me, had no desire to do any of the above. I still get out here and help my dh with whatever he is working on, and he sometimes will look over sewing machines for me. My girls have brought home guys in the past who had never seen a sewing machine work up close and wanted to see how they work.