Thread Bubble?
08-04-2019, 11:31 AM
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Thread Bubble?
Another basic question that I probably would have learned had I took Home-Ec in high school LOL - This one is related to thread/stitching.
The best way I can explain it is like the machine is stitching just fine, but somehow there is also another string that somehow covers 5-6 stitches and just kind of hangs on top of the other stitches.
Is this potentially just a tension thing that I need to adjust - or something that I'm doing?
The best way I can explain it is like the machine is stitching just fine, but somehow there is also another string that somehow covers 5-6 stitches and just kind of hangs on top of the other stitches.
Is this potentially just a tension thing that I need to adjust - or something that I'm doing?
08-04-2019, 11:50 AM
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Well, I took Home-Ec in school & don't remember learning about this (of course that was 500 years ago...
). It sounds like it may be a flaw in the thread. Seems like I've had that before where the thread has a piece where it's not twisted in with the other thread tightly.
). It sounds like it may be a flaw in the thread. Seems like I've had that before where the thread has a piece where it's not twisted in with the other thread tightly.
08-04-2019, 11:59 AM
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Also if you are sewing fast with lots of starts and stops, the bobbin can rotate upon stopping and the tension mess up just as you described. There's a name for it that escapes me at the moment, but it can be fixed with a little flat metal insert that goes in your bobbin case before the bobbin goes in. Any shop that sells sewing machines should have them.
08-04-2019, 06:13 PM
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if you think it's bobbin backlash you can use Sew Genies in the bobbin case to prevent this. But one thing a person in the beginner class I help with found is that her thread spool was a "flat"wound and she was using a machine that had the horizontal spool pin--the thread kept catching and she ended up with weird stitches.
08-05-2019, 08:07 PM
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@osewme - It was thread that was leftover from one of my mom's projects several years ago, so yeah, probably not the greatest quality at this point 
@Barb in Louisiana - No, I don't hold the ends of the thread. I typically have enough excess thread that it just kind of drapes off to the side (The older machine doesn't have one of the extended tables/sewing surface)
@sewbizgirl - That's probably the most likely culprit, as this was my first big project and I was started/stopped fairly frequently.
@Onebyone - That's another likelihood and something I've caught happening quite a bit.
I'll be getting a new machine for my birthday in a few weeks, so I'm hesitant to buy anything else for this one - but I appreciate the advice!
@Barb in Louisiana - No, I don't hold the ends of the thread. I typically have enough excess thread that it just kind of drapes off to the side (The older machine doesn't have one of the extended tables/sewing surface)
@sewbizgirl - That's probably the most likely culprit, as this was my first big project and I was started/stopped fairly frequently.
@Onebyone - That's another likelihood and something I've caught happening quite a bit.
I'll be getting a new machine for my birthday in a few weeks, so I'm hesitant to buy anything else for this one - but I appreciate the advice!
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