October 10, 2005
Go AWAY!!
We should all go away more often. Just think what we could do and get done if we were to honor our calling and go away on retreat in order to feed it!
This is Brienne! Brienne is incredibly creative, juicy and full of awesome ideas. She is working on a monster piece. I own one of her monster pieces! I will soon own another. We are working toward trading artwork!
I love her.
This is Kevan. Kevan is a fantastic woman. She is passionate, thoughtful and commited. She diligently made these fabulous little nudes and we all know how much I love small works.
I got the entire background of The Man quilted!! Now I have a wierd thing happening and I would love some help.
From this photo you can see that I am doing some heavy duty quilt stitching. My stitches cover the entire surface of the quilt and are about 1/8th inch apart, in long straight lines. This circle is part of the surface treatment I am about to embark upon. All of it is quite dense.
Saturday I practically sewed all day from 6 A.M. to 10 P.M., when my machine (a Bernina 1001) went bezeerk. Thread from the bobbin began to wrap around the stem that holds the bobbin inside the bobbin casing- making the thread break and impossible to continue sewing.
The group decided my machine had most likely begun to over heat. So I put the bobbin casing in the freezer, cleaned oiled, gave my babe a new needle and rethreaded the thing. I then decided to take a break and give Brienne a painting lesson. An hour later everything was fine.
Sunday I had no problems, either.
Today I began sewing at 7A.M. I stopped to eat an early lunch at 11:30 and when I returned, same deal. This has never happened before. Have any of you ever had your Bernina overheat?
I even packed her up and took her to the sewing repair person today! She wouldn't act up for him.
Why do you assume this is overheating. It sounds to me like an over-full bobbin - or one in the worng way around. It is also possible the bobbin case was not quite clicked into the assembly. If it is working after rethreading I doubt if it overheated.
Jenny
Posted by: Jenny at October 11, 2005 02:34 AMMy Pfaff also gets quite hot - but what you are describing sounds like an overfull bobbin. I have to stop the Pfaff before it gets to it's little auto brain switch when winding bobbins of fine threads (like machine embroidery threads or that new Bottom Line thread) - otherwise exactly what you are describing happens. I've found that as well as only winding bobbins about three quarters full, I have to tighten the bobbin tension and lower the top tension to get a nice even stitch - this also seems to help with stopping the thread unwinding onto the stem from the bobbin. Oh, and also if your machine has an auto cut for the bobbin thread? Mine cuts too short a length, the bobbin spins around (wheeeee!) and unspools thread onto the spindle/stem thingummy, and then sometimes jams (not always) - so that's another one to watch out for.
But I agree with Jenny - frequent servicing is VITAL! Apparently most sewing machines are expected to be used about 20-50 hours per year - heck, we sew that much per WEEK!!