I was working on an a batch of patches for a customer. I finished the first tray. They were beautiful. I love her little bird design. Then I had to shut down for a day. I set up my machine to finish the order. Awful. I hadn't changed a thing on the machine, the design, the thread, the fabric, Nothing. So out came the trouble shooting. New needle. Clean everything. New bobbin case. New design. Re-thread. Re-load. Twenty, count them, TWENTY test patches later and nothing worked. It kept dropping the same stitches. The same stitches that came out perfectly the day before. UGH. I was ready to haul the machine off to the shop.
And then I noticed something. There were ripples in the fabric between the patches. In the perfect batch, the ripples were vertical. In the crazy skipping batch they were horizontal. The fabric has a light stretch too it. (It was the only white pair of jeans I could find.) By rotating the design on the fabric so that the direction of the stretch was 90 degrees off it came out perfectly.
Crazy. But lesson learned.
Very interesting lesson.
ReplyDeleteI know you were relieved to figure it out!
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