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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/24xsMGA:busyfollowingbees replied to your post “OK I am not the most connected-to-reality person in this whole world…”
what might be happening with your needles is that when you start sewing sometimes the stuff inside the machine goes up bringing your thread out of the needle before it goes in the fabric. if you just make sure to have a long tail of thread before you start sewing it should work out. or hold the thread down with your hand the first couple of stitches.
See I’d think that, but I know about that problem from sewing machines, so I had like, eight-inch-long tails when I started sewing, and I was hanging onto them. It unthreaded that way once, and I got super mad and rethreaded it, so I was keenly aware of how long the initial tails were every time after that.
And at least twice now it’s unthreaded one needle in the midst of a seam. Like, sewing along, all four threads fine, the loopers are looping and the two needles are sewing, no problem, and then suddenly one of the threads is loose and trailing along the work not inside any of the loops, and I look and… there it is, unbroken, but not in the needle eye. And like. Attached to the work, where it last sewed through and the loops caught it.
Unbroken.
WEIRD.
what might be happening with your needles is that when you start sewing sometimes the stuff inside the machine goes up bringing your thread out of the needle before it goes in the fabric. if you just make sure to have a long tail of thread before you start sewing it should work out. or hold the thread down with your hand the first couple of stitches.
See I’d think that, but I know about that problem from sewing machines, so I had like, eight-inch-long tails when I started sewing, and I was hanging onto them. It unthreaded that way once, and I got super mad and rethreaded it, so I was keenly aware of how long the initial tails were every time after that.
And at least twice now it’s unthreaded one needle in the midst of a seam. Like, sewing along, all four threads fine, the loopers are looping and the two needles are sewing, no problem, and then suddenly one of the threads is loose and trailing along the work not inside any of the loops, and I look and… there it is, unbroken, but not in the needle eye. And like. Attached to the work, where it last sewed through and the loops caught it.
Unbroken.
WEIRD.
