The Sewing Place
Machine Talk => Vintage Machines => Topic started by: rubywishes on August 22, 2020, 06:08:23 AM
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I'm currently trying to sew a flannel rag quilt with my 201. I have a low shank walking foot on it, have lowered my tension and lengthened my stitch length to accommodate the thickness I'm sewing through and sewing at a nice sedate pace. Overrall it is going swimmingly except every 5 or 6 blocks my thread breaks and unthreads back through 3 thread guides right back up to the take up lever. Can anyone help me with this?
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What thread are you using? Cotton will snap easier than poly.
Does it occasionally catch on the reel or the spool pin? That would be enough to make it jamb and then snap.
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Thanks for the response @BrendaP , I'm using Gutterman 50wt. I think I have sorted out the problem; I have the top tension set quite low/loose and the stitch lengthened to allow for ease of sewing through the thickness of flannel and batting. Could the thread jumping out of the lower/last 2 thread guides cause the thread to then jerk out of the needle eye? I noticed a few times that the thread was jumping out of the guides. Perhaps there were times I wasn't noticing this and that's when the needle became unthreaded?
I have since lowered the tension more.....almost to 1 and the thread is staying in the guides now and I haven't had the problem recur.
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Thread might ping out of the guides, but unless it actually snaps it can't come out of the needle, other than at the beginning if the tail is too short.