Machine eats my fabric
#43
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 983
I'm with justflyingin, I use my starter/enders over & over till they are full then toss. I'm too busy just piecing to try to figure out out to piece & make something from the starter/ender too. Maybe in about 5 yrs I can be close to good enough to do that, until then when one starter gets too full I just reach in my trash can & pull out another odd shape too small scrap.
#45
Beaglelady,
Try a new needle too, for piecing quilts; I like Schmetz or Inspira 80/12 microtex needle.
You can prevent the Sapphire 870 from zig zagging, if you push the tool button on your machine and select straight stitch. I have the Sapphire 875, started with the Sapphire 870.
Sharon
Try a new needle too, for piecing quilts; I like Schmetz or Inspira 80/12 microtex needle.
You can prevent the Sapphire 870 from zig zagging, if you push the tool button on your machine and select straight stitch. I have the Sapphire 875, started with the Sapphire 870.
Sharon
#47
I use leaders also, but if you don't want to do that, start with your needle down into the fabric and make sure you upper thread and bobbin threads are pulled to the back.. You can use Bonnie Hunter's method of leaders and enders and make little 4 patch squares out of 2" fabric squares..
#48
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Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,564
Yes. This is why, when I'm paper piecing, I switched from stitching through the paper to folding the paper and stitching next to it. Silver lining? No tearing off all those horrid little bits!
#49
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,325
Honestly I have not noticed that using the paper dulls my needle, nothing noticeable anyways. It works for me and avoids the tangle of thread going down into my machine, as I said it does not do this, unless I am working with half square triangles, then I automatically put paper underneath.
#50
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota
Posts: 364
I also will use a leader, but my machine doesn't do that real often. What I did do was put a piece of bright red ( think it's electrical) tape on one corner of my straight stitch needle plate. It still fits fine etc., and I always have a visual reminder before I switch to a zigzag or something other than a straight stitch. I have it on all three of machines SSN plate. Works good!
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