| Is it really necessary to bring up your bobbin thread and lock your bobbin and top thread, before starting to quilt? |
Ok, if you wonder why Carrie, bangs the drum, repeats it over and over, the rule about
bringing up your bobbin thread, locking the top thread and bobbin thread, with a few locking
stitches, BEFORE starting to quilt.
Wonder no more....
A picture is worth a thousand words, and about 10 minutes of maintenance time.
If you choose to ignore the demands. Your threads can and will get pulled down into the hook
assembly, and wind around and around. If this happens and you lock up your machine. Turn
off the power to the machine, and unplug the machine. Grab your tools, your sharp to tip
scissors, and your tweezers. Take off the plate, cut the threads, use your tweezers to clean
out the threads, replace the plate. Continue sewing. Don't do this again! :>)
bringing up your bobbin thread, locking the top thread and bobbin thread, with a few locking
stitches, BEFORE starting to quilt.
Wonder no more....
A picture is worth a thousand words, and about 10 minutes of maintenance time.
If you choose to ignore the demands. Your threads can and will get pulled down into the hook
assembly, and wind around and around. If this happens and you lock up your machine. Turn
off the power to the machine, and unplug the machine. Grab your tools, your sharp to tip
scissors, and your tweezers. Take off the plate, cut the threads, use your tweezers to clean
out the threads, replace the plate. Continue sewing. Don't do this again! :>)
At a beginner training retreat, Jim N, joined us.
He got a Nolting Machine and Frame. His mother had about 80 quilt tops to be quilited and her friends all had
quilts to be quilted. He was now in business. He is busy and her and her friends are happy to have him as their
longarm quilter. He does what they ask.
We like having guys that have never quilted, join us at the retreats. We don't have to "rewire" their brains. :>)
Ok. anyway, so, one afternoon, during classes, I see Jim N, with a screwdriver taking the throat plate off of his
machine, I say, "Hey Jim, what's up"? He says, "No need to worry, I am just checking something".
When he gets the throat plate off, I exclaim, "Hurray Hurray, and Finally".
He apologized for not bringing his thread up to the top and locking it. Please don't be mad, "I forgot".
MAD at you??? Nope, I am happy, happy, happy!! I can now take pictures to post for the other quilters, to see
what happens when you don't lock your threads.
Also, "thank you Jim, for using a very bright, colorful thread, to lock up your machine. It made the training
pictures, very clear".
Locking up your machine will probably happen to you at least once. It can happen by not bringing up your
bobbin thread, it can happen by not locking your bobbin case into the hook assembly before quilting, it can
happen by accidentally, bumping your "on" button, when your bobbin thread has not been pulled up.
If this happens to you, don't worry, don't fret, call us. Tom and/or I, can and will walk you through the trouble
shooting steps.
Everyone locks up their machine, at one point.
Everyone can solve and correct this problem, with guidance.
Please don't struggle.
Please call us with your questions and problems.
Chat soon,
Carrie
CarrieDugan@Quiltfrog.com
He got a Nolting Machine and Frame. His mother had about 80 quilt tops to be quilited and her friends all had
quilts to be quilted. He was now in business. He is busy and her and her friends are happy to have him as their
longarm quilter. He does what they ask.
We like having guys that have never quilted, join us at the retreats. We don't have to "rewire" their brains. :>)
Ok. anyway, so, one afternoon, during classes, I see Jim N, with a screwdriver taking the throat plate off of his
machine, I say, "Hey Jim, what's up"? He says, "No need to worry, I am just checking something".
When he gets the throat plate off, I exclaim, "Hurray Hurray, and Finally".
He apologized for not bringing his thread up to the top and locking it. Please don't be mad, "I forgot".
MAD at you??? Nope, I am happy, happy, happy!! I can now take pictures to post for the other quilters, to see
what happens when you don't lock your threads.
Also, "thank you Jim, for using a very bright, colorful thread, to lock up your machine. It made the training
pictures, very clear".
Locking up your machine will probably happen to you at least once. It can happen by not bringing up your
bobbin thread, it can happen by not locking your bobbin case into the hook assembly before quilting, it can
happen by accidentally, bumping your "on" button, when your bobbin thread has not been pulled up.
If this happens to you, don't worry, don't fret, call us. Tom and/or I, can and will walk you through the trouble
shooting steps.
Everyone locks up their machine, at one point.
Everyone can solve and correct this problem, with guidance.
Please don't struggle.
Please call us with your questions and problems.
Chat soon,
Carrie
CarrieDugan@Quiltfrog.com