Quilting Woes

I would take the machine right back to the people who "serviced" it, and tell them that it is NOT fixed even though you made a special point to tell them the precise problem when you took it in the first time. They should be very ashamed, embarassed, and apologetic, and not even think of charging you for the work the second time around. After all, you paid to have it FIXED, not just "worked on".

JL wrote:

There was some talk on the 440 yahoo list about the BSR not reading certain color fabrics well and causing skipped stitches. I have been trying on one quilt to do metallic thread swirls on black. On my practice pieces, which are not black, I have no skipped stitches, but on my quilt, which is black, I do. I finally did that part of the quilt without the BSR.

L>I have a Bernina Aurora 440 and am using the BSR. My machine was serviced

My goodness. That's an awful lot of money to pay for something if it's still in the experimental stage. @#$! I had seen recently that Pfaff now has a regulated stitch model out and this month's Sew Beautiful advertises a Viking that does too. Please do report back and let us know how it goes. Polly

....and here I had been starting to lust after that machine. Taria

polly esther wrote:

Well, me too, Taria, but I don't need anything to aggravate me. Life provides enough of that without going out and buying some more. Polly

I think I've finally decided to make my sewing machine purchase a Juki TL98Q. I tried one. Oh my it was free motion quilting heaven. When you rev that baby up to top speed, the whole thing gets so easy. It just floats along. I love it. I will buy that next year and save my nickels and dimes and some other year buy the Janome 6600 -- or the machine that Janome has put out to replace the 6600 (the 6700?). I have decided I'm not in the market for machine embroidery right now. And 99 percent of what I do is with straight stitch. If I buy the Juki then I would keep my Janome 5700, which has a decent number of the decorative stitches that I really do love.

All this is my way of explaining that a Bernina or any other brand with a stitch regulator is so far out of my reach that I'm pretending such a beast doesn't even exist in the same universe with me. LOL.

Good luck. Hope all your frustrations are soon soothed and that quilting returns to the balm it's supposed to be.

Sunny

Oh wow! I hadn't heard that. I'll have to go back to the list and do a search on that topic. My top is a light pink, green and white. I've tried everything else, maybe I should just not use the bsr and see if that fixes the problem...

Juli

Juli, I have a similar machine to yours (the 630, with BSR). So far, knock on wood, I haven't had any problems with any of the colors I've quilted on with the BSR. I've done black, red, blue, yellow, pink, green, brown, navy, cream, white -- I forget what else. If I were you, I'd take the machine and BSR to your shop, along with a sample of your fabrics and threads, and see what they tell you.

I hope I have helped, Taria. There is, indeed, a Yahoo group for the Auroras; it's at , in case Juli doesn't already know about it -- and it's full of very helpful and resourceful people who sometimes have worked out solutions to problems before any dealers have seen the problems!

Played with the Viking at a quilt show today and the Pfaff is the same thing. Was not impressed and it was on show special as $995, plus you had to have one of the newer high end machines to add it to. It is a table that attaches to your machine. You are limited to the table area. I use my Bernina for doing long borders. That would require stopping and repositioning on the table.

L> I had seen recently that Pfaff now

Thank you, Linda, for investigating on our behalf. I'd only seen pictures and simply could not figure out what looked like a table thing - which, as you say, is indeed only a table thing and certainly would be very limiting. Okay. Back to my own version of stippling - which is not perfect but usually does very well. Polly

Wow, that's a lot of machine for the price! I can see what my next SM should be!!!