Hi everyone.
I have borrowed a friends sewing machine after killing mine in a horrific fake fur getting stuck in the mechanism accident.
She has a Bernette 740e and she hasn't used it.
It is fine on cotton but doesnt oull trhough anything heavier, certainly not fake fur and not the towelling I am trying to make into bath robes.
I can't see any adjustor to make the foot lighter, and that's all I can think of unless it is just plain old and tired.
Any ideas would be much appriciated.
Lisa
Looks like a fairly light weight domestic machine. Take a look on the left end (the 'face' of the machine); if there's a dial, that will be the presser foot pressure adjuster. For towelling, which is thicker, you want more pressure: dial up to a higher number.
No, just not strong. I'd be surprised of it had much more than a 60W motor.
More pressure, use a walking foot.
The Bernette is strictly a lightweight machine for beginners, not for heavy stuff. Bernina has them made in Taiwan. Your fake fur and toweling may kill machine #2 if you persist.
I'll second that opinion. Beware of light machines for heavy duty fabrics. I speak as someone who just killed a Riccar with windbloc fleece. I only wanted to finish the project while the Bernina was being serviced, Honest!!
Claire in Montréal, France.
Candide
Actually, I have sewn several fur coats on a Bernette, and it did well. That machine was my main sewing tool for several years. I suspect that the original poster has had the most problems with crossing seams.
Another thing to remember is that it is not necessary to "pull" fabric through a machine. When the original poster wrote that I was wondering if this was the problem. It's a borrowed machine, which indicates that the OP is inexperienced. Pulling fabric through--which is really the job of the feeddogs (your job is merely to guide it)--is very bad for the machine, and especially with thick fabrics can cause lighter weight machines to get thrown out of timing. Towelling is certainly thick enough to do this.
Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
Candide wrote:
Thanks Kate, weak machines suck!
Karen Maslowski wrote: . It's a borrowed machine, which indicates that
LOL I have a degree in Textiles and Fashion, I just hate sewing now! So I try to avoid it but I needed 12 monster party bags for my sons birthday party.
I know, it's bad and wrong but it was the only way to get this thing moving. I won't use it again though in case I kill it. It sews light cotton fairly well but a stitch length of 5 looks more like a 2 so I think from what everyone is saying it could be a feed dog or pressure problem.
Thanks everyone for you help. I wasn't sure if it was just me doing something stupid because I haven't sewn for a while or it it was the machine.
Lisa
Sorry for making the assumptions, Lisa. It probably was just the machine, which can be awfully frustrating, no matter how much sewing one has done!
Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
Words fail me.
no worries Karen, and I very much appreciate your help, I don't understand the point of making machines that can't patch jeans though :-)
Lisa
Ya gotta wonder!
Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati
snipped-for-privacy@lactivist.co.uk wrote:
Yup, which is why some of us are always trying to tell people not to buy them.
It's for people who don't want to pay for a decent quality sewing machine but want one and probably who wouldn't know what quality in a sewing machine was like if it hit them in the nose.
Melinda Meahan - take out TRASH to send wrote in news:448376c7$0$97006$ snipped-for-privacy@news.sonic.net:
see my thread about my SO & his "$100 is too much to pay for a sewing machine" :) cheap really is just junk usually. lee
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