Jump to content

cathyh

Member
  • Posts

    606
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    2

Posts posted by cathyh

  1. Lin, I had oil leaking out In the LED light area and on the right handle. I was oiling when my finger didn't come off wet when rubbed over each wick.. Amy told me to wait until the wicks feel dry before adding a couple of drops. The wick on the side is always wet, I never oil that one.

  2. Bees wax is a natural product, made entirely by bees.  Its does not contain parrafin, which is a petroleum product. Hand quilters run their thread through it to keep the thread from twisting and knotting while they work.  I have used it and it works great.

     

    I don't know about dumping the cone in mineral oil, but I have done that with Rainbows and silicone thread lube.  It worked wonders with the very finicky Rainbows thread.  Now that Glide has variegated and Superior has Fantastuci variegated, it won't be necesssary to even fuss with Rainbows anymore.  I've never had issues with any other thread.

     

    As for Sharon Schamber, I will criticize her methods when I have won as many ribbons as she has.  For every expert in every field, there is an expert in the same field who says the first one is wrong.  What she does obviously works for her.  I don't know that the goal of the oil we used to use was to gum up the machine.  I think its all that was available for years, and may have been what older machines needed for their metal parts.  I use what my machine manufacturer recommends.

    I completely agree with your comments, Lynn.

    Well, except that I use Rainbows a lot without any silicone and never have a problem. However, I have read enough comments about thread on this forum to realize that threads act differently on different machines.

    My first sewing machine was a Singer that I routinely took apart to clean and oil. My Pfaff needs machine oil in the bobbin area but is "self-oiling" and I can hear it "squirt" when I turn it on! I am warned not to oil it anywhere but the bobbin case after cleaning because too much oil attracts thread dust. I also have a Juki that I have used alot, mainly for machine quilting before Millie, and it had places where I needed to oil frequently. Millie has those little wicks that I over-oiled in the beginning, but Amy at APQS set me straight when I sent her back for a Spa treatment. My point is there are a lot of different machines with very different requirements!

    With all my machines I have used the oil recommended by the manufacturer. That strategy has never failed me. I am sure though the oil today is probably a better product than 30+ years ago when I was oiling my Singer!!

  3. I got a recommendation for the leader grips recently so am loving this discussion. I am still using pins (my zipper set is hiding safely somewhere in either my sewing room or my long arm room and I refuse to buy another until I find the first!), but have some clips that sound like what some of you are talking about. I bought them in the past year from countryquiltsandcrafts.com, they are called Long Arm Clips and you specify which machine you have. I use them to put a quilt back on quickly to fix something, or to throw a practice sandwich on the millie to try out a quilt pattern.

    I haven't checked the site lately.

×
×
  • Create New...