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dragonlady7via http://ift.tt/1TUBMRc:amethystlilac replied to your post “OK I am not the most connected-to-reality person in this whole world…”
the thread might be slipping out of place inside and causing the thread not to move forward or to draw tight when it does, and then it comes out of the needle. or it might need to be greased
I mean… mostly it works. So it sews normally and is fine. Just, what was happening before, and what happens occasionally now, is that I’m sewing along, and then the needle’s not threaded but I’m still sewing along, and the thread’s still all one piece, from when it was working to now that it’s not working, and somehow in the middle the needles uninvolved themselves.
And through all that, there was no interruption in the thread. Somehow, without breaking, the thread has come out of the solid needle eye. I don’t understand how it could possibly do that. The thread is in the work, then it’s sticking out of the work, and the thread is unbroken back to the spool, but the thread is no longer through the needle. It’s not a self-threading needle, there’s no gap; the eye is unbroken. I cannot fathom how it’s possible. Unless somehow the thread breaks, and then– ~*magic*~– continues into the work somehow, and pulls more along somehow, so that I can’t see where it was broken when I look later??? I just?? Like, there’s a tangle, sort of, where it stopped working properly– is it that the thread’s gotten broken but instantly, like, I dunno, tied itself off in the work somehow, and keeps moving along?
Since I wrote that post this morning I spent probably six hours sewing, and sewed yards and yards and yards of fabric, and it didn’t happen again. So there’s nothing wrong with the machine.
But it happened in the first place, and that baffles me. The needles were threaded, I was sewing along, it’s not like I just started off and they came unthreaded– the needles were threaded, there was thread through them, all of the machine’s threads were held in my hand and didn’t pull backward into the machine– and then the needles weren’t threaded, and the thread was not broken at any point between having been through the needles and then not being through them. It’s like a magic trick. It’s weird!
the thread might be slipping out of place inside and causing the thread not to move forward or to draw tight when it does, and then it comes out of the needle. or it might need to be greased
I mean… mostly it works. So it sews normally and is fine. Just, what was happening before, and what happens occasionally now, is that I’m sewing along, and then the needle’s not threaded but I’m still sewing along, and the thread’s still all one piece, from when it was working to now that it’s not working, and somehow in the middle the needles uninvolved themselves.
And through all that, there was no interruption in the thread. Somehow, without breaking, the thread has come out of the solid needle eye. I don’t understand how it could possibly do that. The thread is in the work, then it’s sticking out of the work, and the thread is unbroken back to the spool, but the thread is no longer through the needle. It’s not a self-threading needle, there’s no gap; the eye is unbroken. I cannot fathom how it’s possible. Unless somehow the thread breaks, and then– ~*magic*~– continues into the work somehow, and pulls more along somehow, so that I can’t see where it was broken when I look later??? I just?? Like, there’s a tangle, sort of, where it stopped working properly– is it that the thread’s gotten broken but instantly, like, I dunno, tied itself off in the work somehow, and keeps moving along?
Since I wrote that post this morning I spent probably six hours sewing, and sewed yards and yards and yards of fabric, and it didn’t happen again. So there’s nothing wrong with the machine.
But it happened in the first place, and that baffles me. The needles were threaded, I was sewing along, it’s not like I just started off and they came unthreaded– the needles were threaded, there was thread through them, all of the machine’s threads were held in my hand and didn’t pull backward into the machine– and then the needles weren’t threaded, and the thread was not broken at any point between having been through the needles and then not being through them. It’s like a magic trick. It’s weird!
