Playtime -

 

 

Is a better word for me than WORK - 

 

So that's what I'm going to call it - LOL - 

 

Anyway - 

 

I'm still having tension issues with Gracie (my longarm) - 

 

I had the dealer come out and re-set some things for me - 

And she behaved nicely while he was here - 

But when he left - she started acting up again - 

 

He reset the bobbin and top tensions - 

And now she likes to break the thread - 

 

I think the top tension is too tight - 

But he's been doing it for years - 

And I've been doing it for a few months - 

 

So I don't want to change any of his settings - 

But I need to play to see if I can make her happy - 

 

I tried a bunch of different things - 

One at a time - 

And made notes as I went along - 

 

But my CDO* decided that I had to be more "orderly" about it - 

 

And I found a really cool download - HERE -  

If you click on the link - it's the second one listed - 

The FMQ Troubleshooting Tracker by Quiltsmith - dot - World - 

 

So I printed a couple of copies - 

 

I think that maybe Gracie doesn't like my thread - 

 

So - for the "official" first round - 

 

I'm going to keep the needle size and all of the settings the same - 

I'm just going to play with various threads - 

 

And I think I'll start with the "sample" pack that came with the machine - 

 

Gracie "should" like those - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

 

 

*CDO -

It's like OCD - but the letters are in alphabetical order like they should be - ;))