Fabric puckering
#2
Power Poster
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 41,481
Is it actually gathering the fabric? If so, it sounds like a tension issue. If you can press the pieces and the wrinkles iron out, it might be a dull needle. Check the thread oath coming from the spool. Once in a while mine with get caught around the extra spool pin without me noticing and it puckers the sewing and then breaks the thread.
#6
Super Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Posts: 9,475
If this happens to me then I always put the fabric that is puckering on the bottom next to the bobbin carrier. Someone told me always put the looser fabric on the bottom. I remember this by "baggie on the bottom".
#7
Member
Join Date: Jan 2021
Location: Green Bay, WI
Posts: 34
Always worth changing, unless you just (one or two seams ago) did. Make sure it's not a ball-knit needle, and for really sharp go Microtex/sharp.
And tissue paper/adding machine roll stabilizer can't hurt, either.
Plus liquid thread lube up top and or stick the needle in sewers magic (solid conditioner).
And tissue paper/adding machine roll stabilizer can't hurt, either.
Plus liquid thread lube up top and or stick the needle in sewers magic (solid conditioner).