When I purchased my machine I was
warned, not only by the dealer but by other international users of this
machine, that it dislikes certain thread and will preferably work with Isacord
or Glide. Now I bought Isacord and Glide
but the whole time I wondered how one dead thing (machine) can decide it
dislikes another dead thing (thread).
So one day with a little time on my
hands I loaded a practise piece of fabric popped some variegated Marathon
thread on the machine and got going. My,
oh my, what a beautiful result I got.
My fabric was roughly 1 meter by 1.5
meter and after seeing the initial results I simply kept going. Trying out every possible motif I know or
have seen somewhere. I had perfect
tension all over, no thread breakage and used 3 different threads types in the
bobbin.
Simply could not just get rid of this
practise piece, so I turned it into a dust cover for one of my domestic
machines. Not being a seamstress, the
finishing sucks but I am sure it will serve its’ purpose.
Every machine is different. Sometimes I think the thread isn't the only thing that causes skipping. Needles, Batting and also the fabric itself. You practice piece is very attractive. Chris
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris, still a learning curve but feeling much better about what I can do daily.
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