Sewnoma

*groan!* (obligatory reaction to any pun)

Cari - I wish I could be less of a worry-wart. I fret about things that will likely never happen, and worry myself silly over inconsequential things. Shockingly I DON'T have high blood pressure, but I sure feel like I ought to, with all the worrying I do!

If worrying were a job, I'd be a world-class professional by now. LOL!

ThayerRags

Yeah. It’s kind of like the difference between using a volt meter or your tongue to check a 9V battery. Either way will work.

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CD in Oklahoma

ArchaicArcane

How I wish I had stock in that tea! With what I drink of it, I'd be a comfortable gal indeed!

As I'm getting older, I'm getting better at the "don't go borrowing trouble" thing and not worrying about things until they come to pass. I used to work well under pressure - you sort of have to in IT or you burn out fast. I think that's what I finally did though - I burned out and just couldn't "take it" any more. Of course the 12am phone calls about computers being broken were a definite contributor. Now, it's ready when it's ready and it's serviced when it's serviced (within reason of course) and I don't get a lot of panic calls anymore. I'm 41 next month and my blood pressure is in range when I go to the doctor (in fact it's finally normal. I've been low most of my life) but I bet there are days it's high thanks to the stress of the day.

sewbeadit

My blood pressure only goes up when I get a call from my youngest (32).lol No kidding weird.

Cari-in-Oly

Oh, yes, of all my kids, #2 has given me temporary high blood pressure more than once! I love my son dearly but I've said more than once if I had it to do over again I'd have all girls!

Cari

SteveH

as the father of three Girls, I would say you might regret that.....

ArchaicArcane

Yeah, I found the girls are OK til the hormone age hits, then look out!! I'd take a boy first any day.

As an aside, holy COW did this thread go off topic.

OurWorkbench

It seems to me that most of the "trouble shooting" tips that I have seen in various manuals and on the web seem to indicate that the "puckering" is a tension related issue.
It also seems like one of the sewing manuals for the "pop-up" pressure knobs seemed to give the opposite of what Singer says for thick vs thin fabric. (I can't find it now.)
When I was working on the most recent FW, I found something about setting the knob with only two screw threads showing. (I can't find that either.) I haven't done much sewing with it but seemed to work ok to test. At least it is a starting spot.

Actually that should be "Singer Sewing Skills"

As Miriam mentioned there are machines that have a silk setting for the feed dogs which make less pressure on the fabric I'm not sure how to word what I'm thinking. I'm wondering if that would make the seam ease differently. I know I have seen tips about how if you need to ease seams - that the longer should be on the bottom. Would the silk setting mean that if you needed to ease some fabric seams that the longer should be on top?

Mickey2

Regarding the feed dog settings for finer and coarser fabrics; I have thought about them like an additional way to adjust pressure on the fabric, between feed dogs and presser foot. Especially the Japanese machines have this feature, and it's like a quick way to ajust presser foot tension, you have three preset options in a knob. The feed dogs move a bit lower for silk and rise a bit higher for heavier fabrics. I can sew silk chiffon and jersey pretty well on my model 99, it doesn't have any extra feature like this, it's as simple and basic as it gets. Does anyone get any use of this feature?

miriam

It might pay to take a look at the feed dogs. Have they been compromised? How about the pressure foot?
I don't know about that two screw threads showing. Things vary way much for that.