It's probably my fault. I ran out of bobbin thread a couple nights ago and called it quits for the night. Tension was just fine. The next morning I load a new bobbin in, and the thread gets caught or jammed somehow. I strongly suspect that I pulled it the wrong way trying to unjam it, and made things even worse. I can not get a balanced tension for the life in me. It starts off ok... then wham! It's really skewed.
ARGH!!!
It's no fun. I don't know how to fix it. I know that I can't fix it, cuz it's a mirror image to the problem that I had last year. At least I've been down this road before, and I didn't let this problem drive me to tears and slamming doors trying to fix it this time.
The good news is that it seems to be able to piece just fine, and I had enough sense to buy a back up machine. Not gonna go bonkers this time. :)
Lastly, I'm so grateful that this didn't happen while I was dealing with my Christmas crunch and free-motioning my dad's and brother's quilt in the nick of time. I'll be sorry that I can't finish the charm quilt before the last cold spell... but I'm not dealing with any deadlines either.
Leah
4 comments:
What a nice healthy attitute you have. As you state, it could have been worst.
I just have a mid priced Kenmore, not a computerized machine. I hope to up grade and am wondering if you think the problems you are having is just your machine or all of them are as sensitive? I can't deal with tension issues on this machine so know that I would definately be throwning things!
My 20 year old Bernina is in the shop now. I can't complain because it's never been to the shop even for a cleaning and oiling so whatever it costs to fix mine . . I deserve it. Hope yours isn't a major problem and I'm so glad you have a backup machine now.
Sorry about the machine problems, again. Sounds like a diva. Hope not. You were wise to get the back up!
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