I promised an update on my sewing machine. So here it is, I took the machine to Mayhall’s, the best sewing repair place around! I was concerned that I’d be waiting months for the part.
Lucky for me, Jerry is an amazing technician. Within a few days, I got a call, he was able to repair the broken part, and he fixed another problem I was having.
He replaced the pre-tension disks with one from Singer. It works, I have never changed any tension there, so I doubt I’d be starting now. I was having problems filling my bobbins, turns out there was thread stuck in there. I wasn’t charged for that part of the repair – so yes, all my machines will be going to Mayhall’s for service.
Juki has come out with its own ruler foot. Yay! Maybe having the correct foot that really fits the machine will stop my thread breakage problems.
Here is a quilting ruler, butted up against the foot. Because the foot is thicker, the ruler won’t bounce under the foot – which could really cause some serious damage to the machine.
I got busy and used the rulers on the central medallion. Uh oh, still having thread skipping and breaking.
Same problem I’ve always had, when I move from left to right or move down to up, threads skip and break, not a problem in the other two directions. Even if I am working on the diagonal this happens.
So I drew some lines and tried it free-motion, yup, still same skipping and breakage.
So I tried good old-fashioned fmq, not a problem at all. Is this because I am moving in all directions?
I had been using Organ Needles size 90, you can see the problem in the lines up top. I had heard that Janome Purple needles are the way to go. So I ordered some and as you can see on the lower lines – yup, more breakage.
I am very frustrated, next I am going to sign up for a class with a live teacher. I will be very very careful transporting my machine, but I need another person who is very good at this needle work to sit down at the machine. Maybe then we can figure out what I am doing wrong since clearly, it is user error.
Leah