Vanuatu Jill

Thanks, Peckish-that really explains it well. That is what was happening to me when stippling-I have always hand-quilted my quilts, but decided to make some small crafty-projects last Xmas (toaster covers, etc), and that was exactly what was happening to me! I fiddled and fiddled, but just couldn't figure what was wrong-IT WAS ME!! Thanks for that, now I might give it another try!!

Buckeye Rose

You can also try increasing the tension for the top thread....I have to do that for my 6600 and it makes the eyelashing go away.

nativetexan

are you doing free motion quilting. i've never heard of eyelashes being encountered doing regular stitching.

Vanuatu Jill

I was FMQ-feed dogs down, and stippling

maryclaire

This is happening to me now. I'm quilting using my Embroidery machine and an embroidery design. The top looks great but I have eyelashes all over the back. I pulled out the bad spots and will probably just stitch the bad spots from the bottom, bury the ends, and remove the eyelashes.. Sheesh. So much extra work. ! I will change my needle and also slow my machine down.

cashs_mom

That's what I've found. I speed up the sewing machine speed and slow down my movement and the world is back in place

bkay

I was having that problem a couple of weeks ago. Annette (Quilted Sunshine) said to get Gutermann thread (or another brand). She said you cannot get a good tension balance with Coats and Clark. I was already using Gutermann in the top and coats and Clark in the bottom. I bought the Gutermann thread at JoAnn's and finally got the tension balanced. It took a while. I kept changing the bobbin tension , then the top tension until it was balanced. I used a quilt mock up to keep testing it.

I have not yet conquered quilting with rulers, but I did get that problem solved.

bkay

Onebyone

I don't think the original poster is still here. Her post is over ten years old.

bkay

Wow! How do those old posts come back up?

bkay

cashs_mom

It only takes one person to reply to it. Then it shows up on everyone's new posts lol