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#33
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 619
I've had that machine since it first came out, almost 10 yrs & love it, it is super, super for free moton. Hints-I find it is better for free motion when it is threaded thru all three holes on that top thingy, there is a picture in the manual, but a nuisance to get floppy thread thru all 3 holes so when I change thread I just tie the ends of the new spool to the ends of the thread from the old spool & pull it thru. Of course the knot won't go thru the needle so at that point I thread the needle manually, do not like the automatic threader.
Also when doing free motion use a stretch needle, size 14, no loopies, no missed stitches. This information was from a Brother tech when I first got the machine, really the best hint ever.
Also when doing free motion use a stretch needle, size 14, no loopies, no missed stitches. This information was from a Brother tech when I first got the machine, really the best hint ever.
#35
I can't get to my sewing room (new flooring being installed) but thank you so much for the video. It has always frustrated me the dealers couldn't show me. I even asked one of the reps in the Brother booth at Paducah quilt show! No luck. None of the reps in the booth knew how the 1500 worked. Their excuse was it was too old a model for them to know about. ?
#36
I fired up my new baby for the first time yesterday, and I LOVE IT!!!! Okay, definite learning curve. I kept getting a big glob of thread on the bottom, and it would get jammed in the machine. I looked on the Yahoo group for PQ 1500S owners, and someone suggested that the thread might be in the bobbin backwards. I rethreaded the bobbin, and away I went, no problems at all! I tried the quilting foot - loved it! - then did my first free-motion quilting, and it was surprisingly easy. (Which makes me think I must be doing something wrong. LOL) I am going to have SO much fun with this!!! It's just worlds away from my starter sewing machine. This feels like it was built to last.
#37
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Windhoek, Namibia
Posts: 639
I spent the weekend doing a lot of applique in different colours thread on my new machine. I changed thread so many times that threading has become an aoutomatic action and I do not have to think, wonder and peek in the book. Seem practice does make perfect!
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