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Design Testing
All right, you’ve decided on a project, you picked a design, a suitable fabric, and the appropriate stabilizer. You hoop the dress for your daughter you’ve just spent three hours sewing and start the machine. After six thread changes you watch as the machine is sewing the outline. Oh No!! The outline is far outside the edge of the fill stitches in several places.
You’re almost there, all you are missing is a test sew to ensure you don’t put your project at risk.
How do you avoid ruining the dress you’ve just spent three hours sewing together? When you buy fabric for your project, purchase enough to a test sew on the same fabric. If this is impossible, use a fabric that is similar in composition, weave and weight.
Design testing is a step that is too often overlooked. It’s easy to be casual about doing test sews, because it increases the time and materials invested in your project. Whether you are a digitizer or embroiderer I highly recommend testing designs, especially in four specific circumstances. Read More
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Platinum Pearls
Q: What should I do when the bobbin thread shows on the top of my design?
A: There is a rule to follow with embroidery machines to keep problems from happening.
First....if the top breaks, take the hoop off and rethread the top, take out the bobbin and rethread it also. When a thread breaks it YANKS on the tension discs and can cause a tightening or loosening. So you always want to start both top and bottom over.
If you have had a major nest in the bobbin case, be sure to take the case area all apart and make sure there is not one of those little tiny ends of thread caught back behind the throat plate where you can't see it. Take a Qtip and clean out the case to be sure there is no fuzzy stuff. And make sure you clean the little flapper thing that the thread goes under on the case.....a credit card works great.
Put it all back together and it should work great.
When you have bobbin showing on the top it is usually a sign that your bobbin tension needs to be tightened. Our machines are normally set for regular bobbin thread and if you are using a prewound bobbin it is thinner. Just tighten the little screw on the bobbin case about a quarter turn to the right and try it again. You may have to do this a few times to get it set right...but once you get it, if you keep using the same bobbins it should not need to be done again.
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