Help!
My machine quilting has just gone to pot, with longer skipped stitches!
I asked this question before, and part of the answer was a blunt needle, but I just changed it perhaps five rows of quilting ago. The tension setting is where it was too.
And it happened very suddenly.
This time I will save the answer!
TIA!
Martha
Are you free motion quilting or using the regular presser foot? Perhaps the machine needs a bit of a cleaning and oiling. You could try setting the needle you are using aside and trying another one just to make sure. You could also try re-threading the machine and using another bobbin, sometimes the outer part of a bobbin might be wound fine but the inner part won't be.
I have had issues with needles breaking and it usually ends up being the bobbin, it looks ok but for some reason it doesn't feed quite right, as soon as I switch to another one it resolves itself.
I agree, try rethreading _top_ and _bottom_ :-) And while you have the bobbin out, check that no nasties are lurking in there - it has been seen before...
Hanne in London
My machine went 'all peculiar' recently, as I was in the middle of something. So, I did all the usual remedies from this group! and it worked. Of course, because I did everything, I don't know what it was that cured the problem >ggHelp!
Yup -- what Pat on the Hill says -- those are all good steps to take. :)
move the quilt more slowly.
I always make sure that my needle is in correctly. I have to put the flat part to the back, however sometimes I forget and get it turned around making my stitches skip.
Can someone tell me why our machines go on the fritz only when we are in the middle of something? I have spent time playing to get the stitching right or something and the machine is fine. It takes everything that I can throw at it. Then, when I am actually in the middle of the project it throws up. It is so frustrating!!!!!!! Personally, I think they are alive and getting back at us for some perceived booboo that we knew nothing about.
Michele
Perhaps they go on the fritz all the time, but you don't notice when they do unless you are in the middle of something?
NightMist
I had this problem just recently when doing free motion. Tried rethreading w/ no success. But when I changed the needle the problem went away.....there was a very very small bend to my needle that was messing things up.
HTH Allison
Martha wrote:
Had the same problem Martha!
My needle was in backwards....
fixed the problem instantly. Since usually a problem is what leads me to putting a new needle, I didn't realize that I was compoundingmy problems..
~NS
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