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Posted by Wainscotting on September 10, 2007, 12:40 pm
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>>> Wainscotting wrote:
>>>> My wife has a Toyota 8800 sewing machine. She has tried to use the Zig
>>>> Zag stitch function but although it does the Zig Zag stitch it doesn't
>>>> pull the material through. There are 19 different stitch patterns
>>>> available and the other 18 all pull the material through. Anyone any
>>>> ideas?
>>> Are you sure that this is the only zig-zag stitch? It sounds like this
>>> one might be a bar-tack stitch, or maybe even a darning setting.
>>This is the only zig-zag stitch on its own. There are all sorts of other
>>stitches and one in particular has Zig Zag on the left of the picture and
>>straight stitch on the right. This one pulls the material through where as
>>the basic zig-zag doesn't. The picture on the switch selector is like this
>>but rotated tclockwise through 90 degrees. (-////-)
> Just a thought, have you got your stitch length set too small.
> Sometimes if it is set to 0 or 1 it will be trying to satin stitch and
> that sometimes can cause problems.
> Shirley
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> Shirley Shone
> shirley@allcrafts.demon.co.uk
> http://www.allcrafts.org.uk
Hi Shirley,
I have tried all the different setting for stitch length and it makes no
difference. It seems strange to me that this is the only stitch pattern that
has a problem.
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> Zag stitch function but although it does the Zig Zag stitch it doesn't
> pull the material through. There are 19 different stitch patterns
> available and the other 18 all pull the material through. Anyone any ideas?