My son proclaims: Mom, you’re just not a gadget gal!
He’s right!
I don’t want to fiddle with things.
Instead, I want to accomplish things!
My latest challenge is my new Pfaff which the moving company recently paid for!
Busily, I’ve conquered the sewing of window treatments for our new house, Becoming History costumes the Progressive Era, and researching and gathering supplies for new 18th century costumes.
Stuck sewing because of tension issues
Puzzled, I’ve been sewing on a piece of silk and the tension has been too tight.
I thought it was due to the flimsy fabric.
Tonight, I finally looked at how to fix that.
I’m not great at figuring out tension.
Remember I’m not a gadget gal.
It appeared that the top tension was too tight, so I decreased the tension but it didn’t make any difference, not even at a 1.
I tried a piece of cotton and had the same problem.
Oh dear, my new machine is broken.
I resorted to my old machine, which is broken from the move, but at least the tension still works.
As I sewed on my silk, the tension problem kept nagging me.
Researching the solution
I finally sat at the computer to research the problem.
Specifically, I searched: Pfaff Expression 2.0 tension
Oh, no. I found a lot of comments about the exact same problem I had experienced.
They sold their Pfaffs and purchased other machines.
I felt awful.
I looked through my search and found another forum (not Pfaff), where the thread was about the Pfaff Expression and opinions of it.
Everyone loved it!
Bobbin secret to tension
One lady had a thread gunking problem.
She took her machine to the Pfaff dealer and found out she was doing two things wrong.
One, she was threading her machine with the presser foot down.
Hmmm, I thread the machine with the presser foot up, so that’s not the problem.
Second, when she inserted the bobbin, she didn’t listen for the click when she moved the thread around to different parts of the chamber.
Hmmmm, this could be my problem. I’ve always suspected that I was not putting in the bobbin correctly.
The thread was always flowing too freely from the base of the machine.
However, the insertion method is completely different from any I have worked with and is quite intricate.
I went to the machine, took out the bobbin, moved the thread around the different parts of the chamber until I heard the click.
“Click!”
Do you know how wonderful that sound is?????
I’ve never heard that before!
I finished threading, replaced the cover, and started sewing.
Amazing how reading about someone’s thread gunking issue caused tension because the tension was wrong.
Eureka! The seam was gorgeous!!!!!!
