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    Claire Hallman's Avatar Claire Hallman is online now Senior Member
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    Default Re: Still Totally Frustrated...

    Try leaving a leader/ender in place. It will keep the thread from coming out of the needle. Plus you can start another project at the same time.
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    Okay, lets back up just a wee bit. I was having something similar on my machine a week or more ago. Terrible clunking noise and the top thread was looping terribly. Took it in for service. The problem? Lint in the bobbin case tension plates. Not visible - but the repair person knew how to take it apart - and the stuff she saved for me was quite a lot. A LARGE fluff piece (compressed though).

    You may have to give in and have someone who is brave enough to take that bobbin case apart . . .
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    Default Re: Still Totally Frustrated...

    Shortly after I got Matilda, I had thread breakage problems. I called the shop I bought her from because she is not something that can be transported easily. They told me it was more than likely a small bur down in the bobbin area and to run my finger around down there and I'd probably feel it. Sure enough, I felt it. They said to take a piece of fine grade sandpaper to it and it would be fixed, so that's what I did, and sure enough, it was fixed!!
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    Well... I tried everything, and the thread still comes out of the needle...... I changed the thread color, cleaned the bobbin area (it was shameful), ran thread against the tension discs.....I just don't get it.... The stitching is fine... No snarls or loose stitches... Lucy just doesn't want to sew...

    I'm going to have my DD to watch me sew, and see if she can see what's going on.... My vision isn't great, so maybe I'm just not seeing something...,

    Rats!


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