wish me luck

Praying, praying, praying!!! You don't need this recurring nightmare!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

I would be so frustrated my brain would explode. Best of luck to you.

ep

fingers crossed, you've been having a rough time with machines!

Anne

ack!!!! take no prisoners. this must be fixed at their expense. hell i'd be asking for them to have it delivered to your front door as soon as it is fixed too. if they cant fix it in a reasonable time they should replace it with a new one. sometimes a machine is just a lemon and must be replaced. TAKE NO PRISONERS!!!!!!!!! good luck, j.

"Musicmaker" wrote ... I'm on my way to the quilt shop sith my new janome 1600p. Having done everything the Janome site suggested to get the machine to stop breaking thread, I finally took the machine off the frame and tried free motion quilting a sample sandwich and it breaks the top thread even sooner OFF the frame! I made it an inch. So now I have a 1 hour drive to the "L"QS.

Musicmaker

Yes, but TWO lemons!! So sorry Musicmaker; hope they get things straightened out ASAP.

Good luck, please post when you can to let us know if they found the problem and, more importantly, how fast they can fix it! Donna

Hope you can get the problem resolved quickly! So frustrating to have a new machine and then have it be a PITA right off the bat.

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

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Problem is their super snazzy "fabri-fast" system lets the backing fabric slip of the roller before I even finish getting all of it pressed into place. All I can say is it is fast to drop the fabric.

Gracie sells cloth leader kits to add to the frame, but I am hesitant to buy sight unseen.

Are there patterns, directions, or such out there?

Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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I bought a Little Gracie HAND quilting frame, which came with instructions to make the leaders. Would that help you at all? I was originally going to buy their leaders, because they're gridded, and have the velcro and all. But they were a hundred dollars. I gotta get on a budget, and $100 for a bit of muslin and velcro isn't on it.

Sherry

Ok, I'm back home and the machine, on the frame, is working as it's supposed to! Mr Stewart, an ancient man who owns the LQS and has been in the sewing machine business since before I was born, sat down with me and helped me to learn what to look for. It turns out that he's the one who originally taught Wendy Butler Berns how to machine quilt!

Anyway, my needle, face plate, bobbin and case were all properly threaded and working, no burrs etc. He said that 90% of the thread breaking problems could be traced either to the way the machine is threaded, or to the spool of thread itself. Both of the spools of thread that I'd been using were spools I purchased on sale at a booth at the Chicago Quilt festival back in April - and both had issues with how they were wound on the spool. He showed me how to set up a spool that had some issues and how to watch for any kind of 'catching' or resistance from the spool as the thread plays out, and how to determine, before I buy thread, if it's properly wound with the right number of strands in it.

YYAAYYYY. TY for the prayers and wishes - I only had time for 10 minutes of quilting after all that, but it was flawless quilting!

Musicmaker, who doesn't mind the issue being user error as long as there is a solution for the user!!

Well, how wonderful. What a happy way to start my day (and yours). Just a few times, I have changed spools of thread and my SM problems disappeared. Happy, happy for you. Polly

On Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:02:30 -0500, Musicmaker wrote (in article ):

Glad it's all fixed now!

Maureen

Now *that* is customer service! :)

YYYYAAAAYYYY!!!!!

Karen, Queen of Squishies

That is sooo nice to have someone to teach you all the little details that make your machine run smoother. Glad everything is working well now! Allison

Musicmaker wrote:

Taria, he just advised "Never buy quilting thread at a 3 for a ___$ sale". "Always hold a strand up - if it's fuzzy don't buy it" (unless, of course, it's supposed to be fuzzy). He attends the conventions for sewing machine technicians and learned how, at the factory, hundreds of spools can end up in the "irregular" bin and that these are sold to retailers for pennies, who then mark them up somewhat and sell them to the unsuspecting (me).

Mr Stewart didn't advocate any particulare brand though.

Musicmaker

Thanks mm. I have had trouble with threads on rare occasions. Somtimes it ends up ok with needle or machine changes and sometimes it ends up ugly and I take a long sewing break out of frustration. I wish I had the collection Leslie had. Wanna start up a stash raid at her house? lol Taria