Help!
#1
Help!
So there i was piecing my quilt top together and then THIS happens
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it looks perfectly fine from the top but underneath is a HUGE mess!
I TOUCHED nothing on my machine! I pulled the plate off and looked all under there to see what was up but it was normal conditions.
I tried fooling around with my stitch settings and nothing helps. I checked the tension and nothing going on there. I have a Brother SE400.
Can anybody help me? I know somebody around here has the answer! You all are so great!
Thanks!
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it looks perfectly fine from the top but underneath is a HUGE mess!
I TOUCHED nothing on my machine! I pulled the plate off and looked all under there to see what was up but it was normal conditions.
I tried fooling around with my stitch settings and nothing helps. I checked the tension and nothing going on there. I have a Brother SE400.
Can anybody help me? I know somebody around here has the answer! You all are so great!
Thanks!
#2
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 3,111
I have had this happen. And I rip it all out because its a mess and I don't know if it will hold up. I don't know what causes this, but my solution has been to just start over. My experience is that it takes less time to start over than to fight with it. I unthread the machine and wind a new bobbin and then rethread and then it works fine. I will be interested to see what others say
#7
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 11,276
It's the top tension. Re thread, making sure that your thread is going thru the tension disks. Take out your manual for a refresher to make sure your thread path is correct.
The other thing that will cause this is not putting your presser foot down. Ask me how I know this...
The other thing that will cause this is not putting your presser foot down. Ask me how I know this...
#10
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
Posts: 16,105
Same thing happened to mine. The bobbin thread slipped out and was all over the place. I pulled the bobbin casing out and got a magnifying glass. Tiniest piece of lint caught. Cleaned it up and the tension was off. Went to my sisters house and her DGD (quilter in training) same thing with theirs. 4 machines with same problem. Also FW same problem. Needed cleaning and bobbin casing had teeny little pieces of lint missed. I had fun on that FW. Also presser foot needed to be all the way down.
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