Baby Lock thread cutter button
#13
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Southern USA
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I don't have Babylock but all my machines that have the thread cutter has never made a bird's nest. The cutters can be adjusted to leave long or short tails. I like the short tails the best. Saves more thread.
#14
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 4,783
I don't use the thread cutter often, because usually I make leader and ender pieces when I stop at the end of chain piecing. When I do use the thread cutter, I find the tails are too short to hold by hand and too long not to make a loop or two underneath, so I begin the next stitching on my "spider" (scrap piece sewn over a gazillion times). The spider doesn't have to be large to work. The one I'm using now is a strip only about a half inch wide, I think it was the "binding" around the armhole of a sleeveless top or something, lol. That's enough width to contain that little problem.
#15
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Join Date: May 2017
Location: Sunny Florida
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Have you tried holding a couple of inches of thread in the back, needle down in the fabrics, then start sewing?
How does the thread look when using the needle threader? Is is smooth into the eye of the needle? Sometimes I tug the little bit of loop out and straighten the thread first. Then start the machine sewing.
Is your dealer aware of the issue?
How does the thread look when using the needle threader? Is is smooth into the eye of the needle? Sometimes I tug the little bit of loop out and straighten the thread first. Then start the machine sewing.
Is your dealer aware of the issue?
#18
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern, Utah
Posts: 973
My thread cutter was acting up, I took my machine in for a service, the service man called and said he had found a lot of thread around something there and replaced the gear and motor. I cost about 20 extra above the cost of service. You may want to have that checked when you next take it in for a service.
#19
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,400
Tricialt, I would hold the thread tails as you take the first 2-3 stitches, this should solve your problem.
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#20
I quit using the thread cutter on my Baby Lock for the same reason. If you use the cutter, the tails are too short to hold onto when you start the next seam or whatever. Since I've never been able to figure out if there was a way to adjust the length of thread tail it leaves, I go the route of enders and leaders. Mostly I chain piece anyway, so it's not a big problem for me. Baby is now my back-up machine, but my newer Brother does the same thing.
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