Many of you will remember this discussion from last month.
I work full-time, so I don't have much time to sew. I did manage to sew one small project that used only straight stitches. I noticed that the machine vibrated A LOT and was LOUD.
I finally got time to sit down with the machine last week to create a "sampler" of all the different stitches the machine would do.
Oh. my.
It would sew awhile and jam. I'd clear the jam, taking out the bobbin & casing, clear any threads, re-assemble and try again. It would sew awhile & jam. I thought the problem might be that I'd threaded it wrong, so I re-did that. I thought the problem might be the tension, so I messed with that. I thought the problem might be that I'd managed to bend the needle, so I changed that out. It sewed awhile and jammed. Sewed awhile and jammed.
Until I was SO frustrated I finally had to quit sewing (or trying to), turn it off and go watch TV.
I'm taking it back to the shop today, and the dealer will have to do some FAST TALKING to talk me out of trading it for a Janome - probably a Magnolia 7318 or a Sewist 500.
I wish I still had my old Kenmore.
But I already gave it to my DIL, so I know it has a good home.
Originally Posted by
His_Grace
As part of my plan to learn to quilt, I got a new Toyota (STF 39) sewing machine for Christmas! My dear hubby researched it for at least 6 months and talked to the guy at our local sewing/vacuum store for a long time to find one that they both felt was durable and would do what I wanted it to do, and he got it on sale!
BUT . . . there's always a "but" isn't there?
There's not one word in the owner's manual about quilting. Not. One. Yet there IS a quilting table extension (purchased separately), so I know it can quilt.
There are pictures on the box of all these special stitches, and only the barest possible directions (and I do use that term loosely) in the owner's manual of how to actually perform those stitches.
It didn't come with a quilting foot, and since it's not a major brand, I have no idea what kind to even LOOK for!
So I went to the website,
www.sewtoyota.com, and have never been so underwhelmed. There's like NOTHING there! Pictures of their two sewing machines, but absolutely no helps whatsoever.
I really don't know where to start. This isn't my first sewing machine - I've got my Mother's 1967 Kenmore and 1918 Singer, and have used both of them alot - but I feel absolutely lost here.
Anyone else own a Toyota sewing machine? Any hints?
Nancy