why is it so different?
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Originally Posted by wannaquilt1
Originally Posted by grammy Dwynn
Originally Posted by wannaquilt1
Oh and I forgot to add... every now and then when I was FMQ the machine would seem to catch on something and stop like it ran over a big heavy seam and got stuck but there wasn't anything there. Are the feed dogs swallowing my material? I had to break the thread and tug it out of the feed dogs. I'm worried it's going to rip a hole in one of my quilts.
Is your machine in a cabinet or on the table with your acrylic around it. Before I got my cabinet (now have a nice flat surface for my machine and quilt), the weight of the quilt would get caught on the acrylic and would cause me some anger issues.
Feed dogs - well I have tried it both ways. But most of the time I have the FD's down.
The 6500 is wonderful for FMQ, but you have to "find you sweet spot".
Also I do wear 'Machingers' gloves (love them), they really help it moving my quilt around.
Good luck
Yeah i also told him the table was moving and annoying and he said "yeah it was walking away huh?" so i guess this is a common issue as well. I ended up taking it off last night and putting it aside lol it wasn't working.
I used the gloves too I love those! They really help me to control the quilt without so much stress from having to "push" on it so much!
I use straight stitch needle plate when doing FMQ, it seems to work better than the regular/stander-ed plate.
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