LadyAg

Hello everyone!

I am finally ready to quilt my first quilt! I have a TL 2010q which I plan to use, and realize I will probably have to make thread tension, presser foot tension, stitch length, or other adjustments so that the three layer quilt sandwich will be smoothly and evenly stitched.

Can anyone tell me what settings they start off with for simple quilting with this machine? I can fine tune subsequent adjustments, but not knowing the typical range of settings to use for quilting has got me not knowing where to start from. I do plan to use a Janome walking foot, since I read previous posts about the Juki even feed foot.

Thanks for any and all help!

QuiltnNan

by simple quilting, do you mean cross hatching or stitch in the ditch? if so, you will want to use the walking foot. I have the same machine and it is a dream to quilt with.

Schill93

There are others better informed than me, as I am new to this machine myself. But untill you get more answers, I would suggest the following. Stitch leangth 2.5 to 3. Pressure would be dictated by the thickness of what your quilting and how thick it is, so I would start in the middle where the green area is and start adjusting from there.
Now thread tension is trickier. That you should be able to judge by doing different samples of straight stitches until you have a proper distribution to you upper thread and your bottom thread. In other words, your top thread shows only on the top and doesn't pull any of the bottom thread up to the top, and vice versa.

You have two tensions to deal with, your bobbin tension and your upper tension. If you can't get it right just tweaking your upper tension, than you need to check your bobbin tension. There are examples of this on You Tube. Generally if you dangle the bobbin by the thread coming out of it, it should not fall and unwind. But if you gently giggle it up and down, it should fall a bit lower. This is supposed to be your best tension. If it doesn't budge when you giggle, than your tension might be too tight. In this case you will have to losen the small screw on your bobbin case just a smidgen, and try the test again. Don't know if you needed all that information.

By the way, I have been considering ordering the Jenome walking foot myself. I would like to hear from you if you find it considerably better than the Juki foot supplied. I can put up with the noise issue, but not uneven feeding of quilt. How would you compare the feet?

LadyAg

QuiltnNan,

Thanks for your reply! I plan to do channel quilting on my current quilt, and cross hatch on my next one that's already in the planning process. (Planning is a lot of the fun).

LadyAg

Schill93,

Thank you for all the advice- I will certainly use it! I have just played with the Juki walking foot, but hated the fact that it doesn't come with a guage. The real deal killer, though, was it only comes with a closed toe. I ordered the Janome foot, and it just came in yesterday. The open toe is really great! I haven't used either foot very much, but I haven't had any line-of-sight issues with the Janome foot.

Schill93

Just so you know LadyAg, the Juki does make a guage for it. It is two sided. I ordered it before knowing about the Jenome foot, and would have ordered the Jenome foots instead had I known. The gage by itself is $59.99. Same price as the Jenome foot.

I haven't used it yet, so can't comment on it. Too bad that stitch in the ditch foot that comes with the walking foot doesn't work with the Juki.

toverly

I have had a 2010q for several years and have never had to adjust tension for any fabric or thread. Just give it a try the way it came and you may be surprised. That's the beauty of a simple machine.

GEMRM

I can't help with any advice re this machine, but I would suggest keeping a log book of what you do, what you adjust, if you have a problem what you did (or tried) to solve it, what thread(s) you used and adjustments needed for them etc - I do this with my P3 and it's come in handy at times!