sewsew Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 I'm working on a quilt with warm & natural batting using superior thread , bottom line on top and bottom . The first thing I noticed wrong was a little loop on top so I tightend the tension a whole turn then the thread broke so I then loosened it by a half a turn still doing an occaisional loop on top , all the while I hear the needle going click click click . I did put on a new needle before I started . Any ideas ? AB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsbishwit Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 If you are seeing a loop on the top of the quilt than you bobbin tension is too loose not the top tension. Tightening the top tension is what is causing your thread to break. Put the top tension back to where it was. Then do the boobin drop test or better yet if you own a towa bobbin gauge use that to check your bobbin tension and tighten the bobbin tesion up some until the loop s disappear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 AB, I don't have my APQS machine yet but when I heard a click, click, click on my old system it meant that the shuttle hook was hitting the needle. My guess is you don't have your needle in tight or in completely. I could be wrong but that is what it would be on my old machine. Heidi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Joann - "Then do the boobin drop test " OUCH - I was going to try it but figured it would hurt LOL Just had to give you a hard time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Pat is so good to see your sense of humor shining through. It is good to see you and your wonderful hubby together. but what happens when you don't have enough to do a "boobin" drop test:P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 You might have your needle in backwards (or not far enough into the shaft) if you hear the click click click. The notch of the needle needs to be facing to the back. What I do is take my left fingers and push the needle as far up as I can and hold a straight pin with my right fingers and push it up into the needle bar as far as I can and then put the tip of the straight pin into the needle to adjust the eye just slightly past the 6:00 (6:35) position. Then I take my LONG HANDLED flathead screwdriver and tighten that screw in nice and tight. What I have learned from the kind folks here on this forum is to adjust your bobbin tension first, using the drop test or towa gauge and after you have that set right then tweak your top tension. I use a piece of scrap fabric & batting to test my tension before starting to quilt. Little twists to the right or left to adjust the top until all lays nicely without pokies. Just keep tweaking the top tension until you get it right; don't be afraid to really turn that top tension forward or backward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsbishwit Posted August 20, 2007 Report Share Posted August 20, 2007 Originally posted by PattyJo Joann - "Then do the boobin drop test " OUCH - I was going to try it but figured it would hurt LOL Just had to give you a hard time. OOOOPPPSS!!!! I need to get my eyes checked I noticed that all day I have been making some HUGE spelling typos!!, LOL, oh well never claimed to be an "A" student in school...remember my posts last week about music and high school? I forgot to mention that in some of my senior classes I would sit in the back ofsome of my classes drawing in my sketchbook This is why I had to marry a computer geek, computers was one of those classes, who would have thought back then that computers would have caught on as big as they did, LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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