The Sewing Place
Machine Talk => Embroidery Machines => Topic started by: Sara-S on September 14, 2020, 14:23:12 PM
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My threader was malfunctioning so I got it fixed (under warranty.). Yesterday, I finally had a chance to use it again. I had no problems threading, except for one spool of black embroidery thread. I can’t understand why the threader worked with all the other colors, but not that one.
Has anyone else had a similar problem? Any ideas why this would happen?
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I had trouble with buttonholes... but only with black thread. Maybe it’s the dye they use.
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Is it particularly thick thread?
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No, it's the same as the other colors i was using. :thinking:
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Probably the dye. Oh haven’t hit the needle threader out have you?
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I think the sensors might have trouble recognising the black dye. Maybe.
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When I switched to a different black thread it worked.
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Oh that’s good @Sara-S. What thread were you trying to use? I’d always use a quality thread and not something cheap.
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Black threads can often be troublesome. I know if I stitch the same design in a colour and then a black, the black will break a couple of times.
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I think that it's the dye that causes problems: you often find that tension needs to be adjusted for black thread wrt other colours and certainly in my machine knitting days a black yarn would knit up very differently to other colours of the same yarn. The number of times that I finished a red school jumper for DD and started a black one for DS only to have to change tension and start again as the black yarn seemed to be noticeably thicker :facepalm:
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It's the same with shoe dye. If you look at two identical shoes - one black and the other brown or another colour, the black one will always be stiffer and harder than the other. It affects the leather differently.
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Oh that’s good @Sara-S. What thread were you trying to use? I’d always use a quality thread and not something cheap.
The problem thread was embroidery thread. The one that worked was regular sewing thread.
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Oh that’s a shame then @Sara-S. Might be worth trying a different make of embroidery thread.
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I will probably do just that.
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Update- bought some new black thread from a different brand and it works with the threader.
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Oh good news @Sara-S