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Quilt Top Puckers
Is your backing fabric stretched too tight? While the backing fabric needs to lie flat and without wrinkles,
stretching it too tight can make the quilt top pucker. After stitching and releasing the backing fabric, the
top will pucker.
The top tension is too tight. Adjust the tension disc small turns counter clockwise. Repeat until stitch
quality is good.
Stitches are Skipped
Skipped stitches leave needle holes without thread while large and small stitches in regulated mode
means the encoders are not picking up the signal of your movements because of lint or thread stopping
or slowing the reading.
First, check to see that your machine is threaded correctly. Look at the check spring. Does the thread
lay in the check spring? When properly threaded, the check spring will move up and down as the
machine is stitching, and the thread is flowing freely.
Check the needle. Be sure it is all the way up into the shaft and the scarf is toward the back. If it has
been used for some time, replace the needle. A blunt needle will make a popping sound as it penetrates
the quilt sandwich.
Machine Drags Making it Difficult to Move
Check to make sure the quilt on the take up bar is not dragging on the bed of the machine. A fingertip
distance between the take up bar and the bed of the machine is all that is necessary. Elevating the take
up bar too high can cause loopies on the back. Look for lint or thread that might be snagging as you
move the machine.
Difficult to Control the Movement of the Machine
Check for lint or other debris on the track and bars. Sometimes the smallest pieces of thread create the
biggest headaches.
Check Spring Replacement/Tension Knob
From time to time you may need to replace the check spring. We will use a series of photos to help you.
Tension Assembly with broken
spring. (old tension knob)
Screw on inside of machine. Loosen
only.
DO NOT REMOVE
Remove assembly from machine.
Be careful of release pin.
Machine with tension assembly
removed.
Tension assembly out of machine.
DO NOT LOSE PIN
PIN
Broken
Spring
Loosen screw only.
DO NOT REMOVE
Remove tension assembly from
barrel.
Tension assembly and barrel.
Remove spring.
Spring removal.
Spring removed.
Tension Assembly with good
spring. (new tension knob)
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